Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

Klappentext This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Zusammenfassung This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Until the 1950s educational historians emphasized the relationship of schooling to the political system and the development of a common American culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Education and social change: Massachusetts as a case study; 2. Trends in school attendance in nineteenth-century Massachusetts; 3. From apron strings to ABCs: school entry in nineteenth-century Massachusetts; 4. The prospects of youth: school leaving in eight Essex County towns; 5. From one room to one system: the importance of rural-urban differences in nineteenth-century Massachusetts schooling; 6. Education and social change in two nineteenth-century Massachusetts communities; 7. Trends in educational funding and expenditures; 8. The politics of educational reform in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts; 9. Conclusion: the triumph of a state school system.

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• Authors: Carl F. Kaestle, Carl F. Vinovskis Kaestle, Kaestle Carl F., Maris A. Vinovskis, Vinovskis Maris A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521102353
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10235-3
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, EDUCATION / General, Education, Massachusetts, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas