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This history is seriously deficient in balance. It omits detail from the 19th Century and one of the most important transformations in U.S. educational history: the National Education Association's commission to Charles Eliot (Harvard's most distinguished president) to convene the "Committee of Ten" (1892) to prepare a modern curriculum for American high schools. The extensive workshops on every aspect of school (including proper use and abuse of rote learning) launched the "classical" high school curriculum. It was designed to prepare students for higher education, but also to be taken (in reduced form)by those not going on to college. It was designed to prepare them for work as well as informed citizens. In 1917 the NEA completely reversed its approach, adopting a "progressive reform" agenda based in part on the powerful influence of John Dewey and others. However, though often denied by progressives, the classical system survived in considerable measure until the final transformation of K-12 education under the influence of Francis Keppel (Commissioner of Education in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Unfortunately, unintended effects of the 60s reforms resulted in 14 straight years of decline in SAT scores and a decline in national literacy evoked by the title of the 1983 National71.178.230.187 (talk) 22:48, 15 January 2019 (UTC) report "A Nation at Risk".