Title: Public education in the United States :
Authors: Cubberley, Ellwood P.,
Date: 1919
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company
Physical description: xxv, [1], 517 p. illus. (incl. maps) plates, ports., diagrs. (1double) 19 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: L
Abstract: Riverside textbooks in education, ed. by E. P. Cubberley... Division of secondary education under the editorial direction of A. Inglis"Selected references" at end of each chapter except the firs.
Contents: Our European background -- The beginnings of American education -- Early national and state attitudes -- Influences tending to awaken an educational consciousness -- The battle for free state schools -- The battle to control the system -- The battle to extend the system -- Character of the schools established -- New ideas from abroad -- The reorganization of elementary education -- New modifying forces -- New educational conceptions and extensions -- New directions of educational effort -- Desirable educational reorganizations -- Fundamental principles and problems.
Notes: Riverside textbooks in education, ed. by E. P. Cubberley... Division of secondary education under the editorial direction of A. Inglis "Selected references" at end of each chapter except the firs.
Subject headings (LCSH): Education--United States--History.; Public schools--United States.