Relationship With Teachers College
New College was an autonomous unit within Teachers College with its own Advisory Board, budget and faculty. If it was so advised, New College students could take classes at Teacher College if it fulfilled the objectives in their personal Long-Term View. New College students were young undergraduates, mostly teenagers, who were often at odds with the Teachers College students because of politics and youthful exuberance. Likewise, the Teachers College faculty was less than cooperative with New College with the exception of notable professors William Chandler Bagley, John Dewey, William Heard Kilpatrick, and George S. Counts. In the minds of some faculty members if New College was the best way to educate teachers, according to Alexander, what did that say about the traditional curriculum?
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