The Author: William G. Wraga is Professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, at the College of Education, University of Georgia, where he teaches courses in curriculum theory, development, policy, and history. He received his master’s degree from the University of Chicago and his doctorate in social and philosophical foundations of education from the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. He served as president of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History and as Factotum for the Professors of Curriculum. He is author of Democracy’s High School: The Comprehensive High School and Educational Reform in the United States (1994).

«Among the various forms of biographical research, William G. Wraga’s ‘Progressive Pioneer’ raises the scholarly chronicle to new heights in the field of education. His analysis of the career of Alexander James Inglis offers innovative perspectives for our understanding of progressive education and secondary school reform during the first decades of the twentieth century.» (Craig Kridel, E. S. Gambrell Professor of Education and Curator of the Museum of Education, University of South Carolina)