What theories and historical influences should most impact the schools we'd like to have?

This question could recieve a multitude of answers as we all examined a different historical event in education and created a comprehensive wiki for each. Some of the most important influences that we looked at in this class would be such events as the Winnetka Plan, and the impacts made during the Progressive era and the civil rights movement. For example, the Winnetka Plan was a particularly important peice of educational history because it put a stress on the arts as well as the core subjects. This would be great in our schools today as we see musical and art programs being focused on less with the NCLB act in place. The Progressive era reforms were important for today's schools because they focused on making students productive citizens as well as boosting literacy. This would be great today because there seems to be a lack of character building in schools, and the reforms in the Progressive era were targeted to do this exact task. Finally, the reforms made in schools during the civil rights movement, ie Brown v. Board of Education, are too important to keep out of the school's we'd like to have. Integrating races in our schools has been one of the most important peices in educational history in this country and it can do a lot to teach values of tolerance and appreciation. We have learned about many different events in educational history that have made profound impacts on our schools, but in some cases we have lost some of these important values. That is why as a perspective teacher I appreciate having learned about these different historical events and how they can be applied to our schools today.