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Letter from William Clark Trow to Arnold O. Beckman

  • 1956-Dec-04

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This is one of many letters written to Arnold Beckman in response to his U.S. News & World Report article on the topic of education. William Trow, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Michigan, suggests that criticism of progressive education is often vague and ill-informed, and that the socialism Beckman decries is also responsible for the Soviet science he praises.

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  • Series I. Arnold O. Beckman Files
  • Sub-series 1. Correspondence
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  • Box 1, Folder 3

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Scientific Biography
Arnold O. Beckman

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Trow, William Clark. “Letter from William Clark Trow to Arnold O. Beckman,” December 4, 1956. Beckman Historical Collection, Box 1, Folder 3. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/bv73c083v.

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