Edward A. Krug, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdward A. Krug
American academic
Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1911
Date of Death: 30-Jul-1979
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Edward A. Krug
- Edward A.
- Krug (September 26, 1911 – July 30, 1979) was the University of Wisconsin–Madison's first Virgil E.
- Herrick Professor of Educational Policy Studies. Krug attended Northwestern University, receiving a B.A.
- in 1933 and M.A.
- in 1934.
- He then taught social studies at Evanston Township High School until 1938.
- In 1941, he received his Ph.D.
- from Stanford University thereafter accepting a temporary appointment as assistant professor.
- In 1943, he became a visiting assistant professor at [the University of Montana (www.umt.edu/)].
- In 1945, Krug became the Wisconsin State Curriculum Coordinator and held a concurrent position as Associate Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- In 1947, he returned to Stanford as an associate professor, but returned to Madison the next year. Krug's early works dealt with US social life.
- Beginning in 1950, Krug began a long publishing career on the history of US education.
- In 1950 he published Curriculum Planning and, a decade later, Secondary School Curriculum.
- He also wrote Charles W.
- Eliot and Popular Education (1961) and Salient Dates in American Education (1966).
- He collaborated on Schools and Our Democratic Society (1952), Multzple-Period Organization in Wisconsin Secondary Schools (1952), Administering Curriculum Planning (1957) and The College-Preparatory Function in Wisconsin High Schools (1959). His legacy, though, was established by a two-volume study of the American high school, The Shaping of the American High School (vol.
- 1, 1964; vol.
- 2 1971).
- This text is recognized as the standard history of this institution.
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