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Counts's activism continued in the 1950s and 1960s. He served on the AFT Commission on Post-War Reconstruction. He traveled to Japan to participate in the reconstruction of the Japanese educational system. With others he helped to found the Liberal Party of New York, unsuccessfully running for the Senate on its ticket in 1952. Against his wishes he was forcibly retired from Columbia in 1955. Tireless, he lectured in Brazil in 1957, joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1959, went to teach at Michigan State University in 1960, and in 1961 was appointed to the faculty at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where he remained for a decade. He died on 10 November 1974.
Sources:
Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957 (New York: Knopf, 1961);
Lawrence J. Dennis, George S. Counts and Charles A. Beard: Collaborators for Change (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989).
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