Education in the United States
Subtitle: an interpretive history
By: Robert L. Church and Michael W. Sedlak.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Education -- United States -- History
First sentence: This volume concentrates on one great theme in the history of education in the United States: the varying commitment among Americans to "mass schooling" and equality of education.
Notes: 90591

Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Education in the new nation, 1776-1830
class: section
label: Part I; label: Part II
class: part
title: The quest for commonality, 1830-1860; label: Part III
class: part
title: The retreat from commonality, 1840-1920; label: Part IV
class: part
title: School and community : progressivism in education, 1890-1940; title: Redefining commonality, 1940-1975
class: part
label: Part V