Schools in cities
Subtitle: consensus and conflict in American educational history
By: Ronald K. Goodenow and Diane Ravitch, editors.
Contributors: Goodenow, Ronald K.; Ravitch, Diane.
Publisher: Holmes & Meier
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Education, Urban -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Education, Urban -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Selected essays from a conference on community studies in the history of education held at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, 1980.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: After leaving school / Joel Perlmann; title: Industrial education in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1908-1928 / Paul J. Ringel; title: Patterns of public school segregation, 1900-1940 / David Ment; title: Sphere of influence / Nancy E. Adelman; title: Three faces of control / John G. Ramsay; title: Common school politics in a frontier city / David L. Angus; title: Urban politics and changing schools / Paul E. Peterson; title: The rise of public schooling and the attitude of parents / Charles Strickland; title: World War II and the travail of progressive schooling / Ronald D. Cohen; title: Community studies in urban educational history / Maris A. Vinovskis; title: Exploring community in urban educational history / Barbara Finkelstein.