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The name John Franklin Bobbitt may not be as readily recognized today as, for example, John Dewey; however, John Franklin Bobbitt was enormously influential in establishing the general approach to American k-12 education that prevails even today. Bobbitt’s specialty was curriculum, and his major contribution was in designing curriculum based on specific objectives. He was also a major early proponent of using scientific analyses in the process of curriculum development. In WHAT THE SCHOOLS TEACH AND MIGHT TEACH, the author addresses his concern that school systems tend to teach traditional subjects for their own sakes, rather than to prepare students for their roles as adults. As times change, he says, schools must adjust their methods and subject matter to meet the new challenges. He speaks of the methods for achieving educational objectives as ‘education essentials’ and argues that the “number of ‘essentials’ changes from generation to generation.” Employing scientific analysis, therefore, school leaders should be prepared to periodically update their curricula as society progresses. In this study, Bobbitt looks at a series of these essentials in a comparison between their application in the Cleveland school system (which he sees as somewhat progressive) and a group of fifty other systems. The subjects he examines may appear traditional; however, his analysis of each gauges the schools’ success in meeting essential challenges. The modern reader will easily transpose those challenges to twenty-first century ones.

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