The Myth of the Common School
Author : Charles Leslie Glenn
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Charles Leslie Glenn
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : William J. Reese
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1421401037
In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America’s public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiry—education as a means for reforming society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves. He explores the roots of contemporary educational policies and places modern battles over curriculum, pedagogy, race relations, and academic standards in historical perspective. A thoroughly revised epilogue outlines the significant challenges to public school education within the last five years. Reese analyzes the shortcomings of “No Child Left Behind” and the continued disjuncture between actual school performance and the expectations of government officials. He discusses the intrusive role of corporations, economic models for enticing better teacher performance, the continued impact of conservatism, and the growth of home schooling and charter schools. Informed by a breadth of historical scholarship and based squarely on primary sources, this volume remains the standard text for future teachers and scholars of education.
Author : Anthony S. BRYK
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674029038
The authors examine a broad range of Catholic high schools to determine whether or not students are better educated in these schools than they are in public schools. They find that the Catholic schools do have an independent effect on achievement, especially in reducing disparities between disadvantaged and privileged students. The Catholic school of today, they show, is informed by a vision, similar to that of John Dewey, of the school as a community committed to democratic education and the common good of all students.
Author : Carl F. Kaestle
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142993171X
Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems, Kaestle argues, was encouraged by the people's commitment to republican government, by their trust in Protestant values, and by the development of capitalism. The author also examines the opposition to the Founding Fathers' educational ideas and shows what effects these had on our school system.
Author : Walter Feinberg
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300082920
In the USA, minorities such as blacks, Latinos and gays demand a school curriculum that recognizes their identity. Others insist education should instil a common American identity. The author indicates the underlying issues and shows how schools can promote both national and cultural identities.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : David Komline
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,96 MB
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0190085169
A statue of Horace Mann, erected in front of the Boston State House in 1863, declares him the "Father of the American Public School System." For over a century and a half, most narratives about early American education have taken this epithet as the truth. As Mann looms over the Boston Common, so he has also loomed over discussions of early American schooling. Other scholarship has emphasized economic factors as the main reason for the emergence of public schools. The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative about the rise of public schools in America that counters these conceptions. In this book, David Komline explains how a broad and distinctly American religious consensus emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, allowing people from across the religious spectrum to cooperate in systematizing and professionalizing America's schools in an effort to Christianize the country. At the height of this movement, several states introduced state-sponsored teacher training colleges and concentrated government oversight of schools in offices such as the one held by Mann. Shortly thereafter, the religious consensus that had served as the foundation for this common school system disintegrated. But the system itself remained, the legacy of not just one man, but of a whole network of reformers who put into motion a transatlantic and transdenominational religious movement - the "Common School Awakening."
Author : Lawrence Arthur Cremin
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Public schools
ISBN :
Also published as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1951. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 222-241.
Author : William H. Jeynes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2007-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1452235740
American Educational History: School, Society, and the Common Good is an up-to-date, contemporary examination of historical trends that have helped shape schools and education in the United States. Author William H. Jeynes places a strong emphasis on recent history, most notably post-World War II issues such as the role of technology, the standards movement, affirmative action, bilingual education, undocumented immigrants, school choice, and much more!
Author : Joshua Bates
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Public schools
ISBN :