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Personal Odyssey: Becoming a Teacher and Reformer in the 1950s and 1960s* | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Personal Odyssey: Becoming a Teacher and Reformer in the 1950s and 1960s* | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Personal Odyssey: Becoming a Teacher and Reformer in the 1950s and 1960s*

I was the third son of Russian immigrants. I saw that my brothers who had to work during the Great Depression to provide family income and then serve the country in World War II lacked the chances that I had simply because I was born in the 1930s and they were born in the 1920s. Because sheer chance made me the