For years, the Progressive Education Association expressed their frustration with the slow pace of curriculum change especially in the secondary schools. The Progressive Education Association believed that a major reason for this reluctance of change was due to the entrance requirements of colleges. In 1932, grants were secured and a plan was developed where colleges would waive the need for examinations or prerequisite courses to be taken by students from select schools. This would allow The Eight-Year Study, one of the major school-based curriculum research projects in the history of American curriculum studies (Pinar, 2010), to begin.
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