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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783371803321

Autore

Nasaw David

Titolo

Schooled to order : a social history of public schooling in the United States / / David Nasaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1979

ISBN

0-19-755995-6

1-4237-2911-0

1-280-43912-2

0-19-802023-6

1-60129-572-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

371/.01/0973

Soggetti

Public schools - United States - History

Educational sociology - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1979.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. 275-293 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; I: The Common Schools 1835-1855; 1 The New World and the Old; 2 The Ultimate Reform: The Common Schools; 3 The Campaign for the Common Schools: The Enthusiasts, the Indifferent, and the Opposition; 4 The Irish and the Common Schools; 5 The Legacy of Reformthe Ideology and the Institution; II: The High Schools 1895-1915; 6 The "Youth" Problem; 7 The War Against the Wards; 8 Reforming the High Schools; 9 New Studies for New Students; 10 Reaction, Resistance, and the Final Compromise; III: Higher Education 1945-1970; 11 Between the World Wars: To School or to Work?

Sommario/riassunto

Argues that as public schools became integral to the maintenance of American lifestyles, they increasingly reflected the primary tensions between democratic rhetoric and the reality of a class-divided system.