Title: Class and reform
Description: Focuses on Progressive education reform in Chicago between 1880 and 1920 --child labor and compulsory education laws, juvenile courts, kindergartens, plalyagrounds, child-centered pedagogy, vocational education and guidance, IQ testing, junior high schools, and school governance. Examines the social and intellectual origins of Progressive educational reform: its guiding principles, its relationship to Progressive reform generally, the response of working-class individuals and organizations to previous forms of education, and the gradual incorporation of public education into the market revolution of the last century.
Subjects: Case studies, Child welfare, Education, History, Political aspects of Education, Politics and education, Politics and government, Vocational education, Education, political aspects, Chicago (ill.), politics and government, Political aspects
Places: Chicago, Chicago (Ill.), Illinois
Time periods: To 1950