John Dewey, the “father” of contemporary American education, advanced the notion that schools should be a center where students are brought up in the methods & practices of society.  Further, schools should be the epicenter for any and all revisions and modification that “we” think need to be made of society.  The schools are effectively, in Dewey’s world, the center for all societal change.  In comptemporary schooling, now not in Dewey’s era, the school is becoming even more the center of change including the progressive usurping of the home.  All around the US, this notion that the school should become more like the home, including assuming responsibilities of the home, is being advanced in teacher training programs, universities, seminars, and conferences alike.

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