Social science is badly needed by our society and yet miserably dealt with in the secondary school curriculum. This behavioral scievce desert is only now seeing a few experimental plants. Great resources ,and dedicated efforts of scholars are required, reports Dr. Patterson, who is Lincoln Filene Pofessor of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Tufts University and Director of the Lincoln Filene Center.
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Strengthening the Behavioral Sciences, Statement by the Behavioral Sciences Subpanel, The Life Sciences Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee , The White House, Washington, D C., April 20, 1962 (Washington, D. C. : U. S Government Printing Office, 1962), 19 pp.
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Ibid, p. 2.
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Alfred de Grazia , "The Hatred of New Social Science," The American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. V, No. 2, October, 1961, p. 13.
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Norton E. Long , "Political Science in the Schools," mimeographed working paper prepared for the American Council of Learned Societies, 1962, p. 2. (Continued on next page)
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5 Ralph W. Tyler, "Human Behavior: What Are the Implications for Education?" The National Education Association Journal, October, 1955, pp 426-429.
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Robert J Havighurst , "How Education Changes Society," Confluence : An International Forum, No. 1, Spring, 1957, pp. 85-96.
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Cf., for example, Franklin Patterson, Public Affairs and the High School: A Summer Pilot Program. Medford, Massachusetts : The Lincoln Filene Center, Tufts University, 1962, 43 pp.
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Cf., C. Gratton Kemp, "Critical Thinking: Open and Closed Minds ", The American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. V, No. 5, January, 1962 , pp. 10-15.
