Connecticut's public schools
Subtitle: a history, 1650-2000
By: Christopher Collier
Publisher: Clearwater Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Orange, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 873
ISBN-13: 9780578016610
Subjects: Public schools; History; Education
Description: Christopher Collier was born in New York City in 1930. He attended Clark University where he earned his B.A. and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught school in Connecticut and at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is Professor emeritus of American History at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He was the official Connecticut State Historian (1984-2004). His works include books for children such as My Brother Sam Is Dead (1974), which deals with the American Revolution, and was awarded a Newbery Honor, Jump Ship to Freedom (1981) and six other historical novels written with his brother James and books for adults: Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Decision in Philadelphia (with James Lincoln Collier); and "All Politics Is Local" about Connecticut's role in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 673-824) and index.
Table of contents: title: The establishment of schooling in New England; title: Connecticut schools of the Colonial era; title: The rise and fall of the common school; title: Henry Barnard and frustrated school reform; title: Teachers and their schools in the 19th century; title: Inside the 19th-century classroom; title: The tyranny of the hickory stick; title: Free schools, city schools, and compulsory schools; title: Religion in the schools; title: Charles Hine and the bureaucratization of the public schools; title: Consolidation; title: The town board of education; title: The development of the comprehensive high school: genesis; title: The development of the comprehensive high school: evolution; title: Then progressive theorists; title: Progressivism in the classroom; title: The Great Depression and teacher pay; title: Citizenship education in war and peace; title: Postscript: progressive pedagogy in the postwar era; title: The baby boomers and the rise of the suburbs; title: Vocational education and the trade schools; title: The NDEA and Sputnik-inspired reforms; title: CEA, CSFT and collective bargaining; title: Binding arbitration and the struggle for tenure in the era of strikes; title: Postscript: CABE; title: Financial frustration: inequality and Horton v. Meskill; title: African-Americans in Connecticut and Sheff v. O'Neill; title: Conclusions.