Harold Rugg IS usually remembered as one of a group of professor-reformers (sometimes referred to as the “reconstructionist wing” of the progressive education movement) whose educational philosophy included the tenet that the school ought to be in the vanguard of social change. The nucleus of this group — which in addition to Rugg looked to John Dewey, Boyd H. Bode, William H. Kilpatrick, and John L. Childs, among others, for its intellectual leadership — was located at Teachers College, Columbia University, and reached the peak of its influence during the 1930s, notably in the pages of the journal, The Social Frontier.