Composition: History & Theory: 1960 - 1969
Lawrence A. Cremin
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Lawrence Cremin (1925-1990) was an educator, historian, author, and administrator. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1949 and began teaching at Teachers College Columbia. He became a member of the history department at Columbia in 1961 and was president of Teachers College from 1974-1984. In 1985, while remaining on the Columbia and Teachers College faculties, he also assumed the presidency of the Spenser Foundation, which supports research in education.
His major work was a three-volume comparative history of education in the United States entitled American Education. The second volume, which covered the period from 1783 to 1876, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1981. In addition to many articles, Cremin wrote seven other books, including The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957, which won the 1962 Bancroft Prize in American history.
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3/14/09