American Catholic Schools in the Twentieth Century - Encounters With Public Education Policies, Practices, and Reforms

This book focuses on the intersections between Catholic schools and public education reforms.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. What Is an American Public School?
2. A "Heterodoxical Spectacle": Public Recognition and Accreditation
3. "More Than Measurable Human Products": Educational Measurement and Intelligence Testing
4. "Secularization Would Never Be Worth the Price": Federal Funding, Catholic Schools, and the Great Depression
5. The Sectarian Question: The National Education Association and the National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1930-1956
6. "Did We Break an Arm Sliding Home?": The Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965
7. What Is an American Catholic School in an Era of Choice?
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Ann Marie Ryan

Product details

• Authors: Ann Marie Ryan, Ryan Ann Marie
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781475866605
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6660-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, Organization & management of education, Educational strategies & policy, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Educational administration & organization