Many if not most academics would call John Dewey a liberal. But, he was a socialist . Dewey voted for socialist candidate Norman Thomas for president in 1932 and 1940. Dewey was involved in supporting the journal ,
The Social Frontier A Journal of Educational Criticism and Reconstruction. Check out the masthead of the journal where they capitalize the goal of the journal. The journal started in
1934 and ran for nine years. This is the equivilent yelling children should be trained to change society from a capitalist system to a socialist system or instead of reading by phonics. The masthead also has famous historians Charles A. Beard and Merle Curti, who were at the very top of the American historical profession. The point is: higher education and lower has been influenced by socialists way before the 1960's. The reason Johnny can't read at grade level is because progressive education is about socialism not reading. A society run on a non-profit basis is a communist society.
