Rebuilding the German Education System (1948)
The October 1948 issue of Educational Leadership, on the theme of "Education's Place in Remaking the World," has several articles of interest to educators looking for some perspective on international education and the degrees to which the U.S. system has learned from and worked with other countries in the past.
Although articles like "We Can Learn from Austria" (PDF) and "Teacher Preparation in Japan" (PDF) make for good reading, one article in particular stands out. Mildred English shares her firsthand experience in "Rebuilding the German Education System," starkly appraising the state of education in occupied, postwar Germany and detailing the steps being