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Author Spring, Joel H.

Title The American school, 1642-1985 : varieties of historical interpretation of the foundations and development of American education / Joel Spring.

Imprint New York : Longman, c1986.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Reitz  370.973 Sp82am, 1986    ---  Lib Use Only
Description x, 347 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Religion and authority in colonial America -- Freedom and order -- Institutions and reform : schools and colleges in the new republic -- The ideology and politics of the common school -- Organizing the American school: the nineteenth-century schoolmarm -- Schooling and the new corporate order -- Education and human capital -- Meritocracy: the experts take charge -- The politics of education -- Education and national policy -- The conservative reaction and the politics of education.
Note 35902004207193 c.1 Special Collec. Reitz. Gift of Charles Reitz.
Subject Education -- United States -- History.
Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social conditions.
ISBN 0582285712 (pbk.) : $17.95
9780582285712 (pbk.)

 
    
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