The Department Of Education Battle, 1918-1932
Subtitle: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, And The Social Order (Cushwa Studies in American Catholicism)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780268041106
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Education; Education / Teaching; USA; History; Organizations & Institutions; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); 20th century; Catholic Church; Education and state; United States
First sentence: The twentieth century dawned with the rise of a widespread reform movement called Progressivism.
Description: "Between World War I and the Great Depression, progressive educational administrators at Teachers College of Columbia University joined hands with the National Education Association (NEA) to establish a federal department of education and a national system of schooling. This carefully researched book recounts their efforts and the resistance mounted by Catholics who feared that this reform movement would spell the end of parochial education."--Jacket.