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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455430203321

Autore

Katz M. B

Titolo

Reconstructing American education [[electronic resource] /] / Michael B. Katz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1987

ISBN

0-674-03937-8

Descrizione fisica

viii, 212 p

Disciplina

370/.973

Soggetti

Education - United States - History

Education, Urban - United States - History

Educational sociology - United States

Bureaucracy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Origins of Public Education -- 2. Alternative Models for American Education -- 3. How Urban School Systems Became Bureaucracies: The Boston Case, 1850-1884 -- 4. History and Reform -- 5. The Politics of Educational History -- 6. The Moral Crisis of the University -- Notes -- Index