School, Society, and State : A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940 /
Steffes, Tracy L., author.
 "Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife," wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State,  Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the  connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century  and American political development from 1890 to 1940.American public schooling, Steffes shows,  was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a  central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education  and explains how
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 "Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife," wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State,  Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the  connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century  and American political development from 1890 to 1940.American public schooling, Steffes shows,  was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a  central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education  and explains how
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Educational change
Education and state
School management and organization
Schools
Education, Compulsory
Democracy and education
Educational sociology