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The progressive education movement was part and parcel of a broader social and political reform called the Progressive movement, which dated to the last decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th. Elementary education had spread throughout the Western world, largely doing away with illiteracy and raising the level of social understanding. Yet, despite this progress, the schools had failed to keep pace with the tremendous social changes that had been going on. Dissatisfaction with existing schools led several educational reformers who wished to put their ideas into practice to establish experimental schools during the last ...(100 of 117691 words)