Abstract

In November 1916, John Dewey’s address to the National Education Association, entitled “Nationalizing Education,” appeared in the Journal of Education. Dewey’s fervent plea called upon educators to support American public education and one of its primary goals, that “every pupil recognizes all of the factors which have gone into our [national] being.”1 He cautioned against the alternative, stating: “In short, unless our education is nationalized in a way that recognizes the peculiarity of our nationalism in its internationalism, we shall breed enmity and division in our frantic efforts to secure unity.”2 Perhaps coincidentally, the doors of Schenley High School, located in the Oakland neighborhood of...