Urban education in the United States
Subtitle: a historical reader
By: John L. Rury, editor.
Contributors: Rury, John L., 1951-.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781403967770; 9781403967787
Subjects: Education, Urban -- United States -- History
Description: This book addresses an often-overlooked aspect of American education: the development of schools in large cities. John L. Rury introduces and highlights the most significant and classic essays dealing with urban schooling in this collection. Touching upon each of the country's principal geographic regions, Urban Education in the United States provides an introduction to critical themes in the history of city schools, framing each section with an overview of the major issues in urban education during particular periods in US history. This is an essential collection for students in urban education, the history of education, and American history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the changing social countours of urban education / John L. Rury; title: Common schools before the "common school revival" : New York schooling in the 1790s / Carl F. Kaestle; title: The origins of public education in Baltimore, 1825-1829 / Tina H. Sheller; title: Popular education in nineteenth century St. Louis / Selwyn K. Troen; title: Bureaucracy and the common school : the example of Portland, Oregon, 1851-1913 / David Tyack; title: Urban reform and the schools : kindergartens in Massachusetts, 1870-1915 / Marvin Lazerson; title: Progressivism and curriculum differentiation : special classes in the Atlanta public schools, 1898-1923 / Barry M. Franklin; title: Taxation and social conflict : teacher unionism and public school finance in Chicago, 1898-1934 / Marjorie Murphy; title: Missing the mark : intelligence testing in Los Angeles public schools, 1922-32 / Judith R. Raftery; title: The politics of educational retrenchment in Detroit, 1929-1935 / Jeffrey Mirel; title: Race and the politics of Chicago's public schools : Benjamin Willis and the tragedy of urban education / John L. Rury; title: Bureaucratic order and special children : urban schools, 1950s-1960s / Joseph L. Tropea; title: "The community is beginning to rumble" : the origins of Chicano educational protest in Houston, 1965-1970 / Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.; title: After the fall : continuity and change in Detroit, 1981-1995 / Jeffrey Mirel; title: The Milwaukee voucher experiment / John F. Witte; title: High stakes in Chicago / Brian Jacob.