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Peer reviewedSchlossman, Steven – History of Education Quarterly, 1981
Highlights the role of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation in promoting child development research and parent education in America during the 1920s. The author discusses the ways that the movement's stress on scientific objectivity help to increase its acceptance by both parents and educators. (AM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Modern History
