Chartered Schools
Subtitle: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415931182
First sentence: In a report on the educational statistics of the United States for 1850, Henry Barnard claimed there existed more than 6,100 incorporated academies, with enrollments nine times greater than those of the colleges.