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The politics of school reform, 1870-1940 /
Was school reform in the decades following the Civil War an upper-middle-class effort to maintain control of the schools? Was public education simply a vehicle used by Protestant elites to impose their cultural ideas upon recalcitrant immigrants? In The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940, Paul E....
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©1985.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments
- Part One
- Forming Public Schools
- 1. The Pluralist Politics of Public Schools
- 2. Political Support for the Free School 3. The Politics of Curricular Change
- 4. The Politics of Resource Allocation
- 5. The Politics of Race and Equity
- Part Two
- Reforming Public Schools
- 6. Urban Reform without Class Conflict
- 7. Compromise Reform
- 8. Reform and the Professional Administrator
- 9. Finance and Reform: Issues of the Thirties
- 10. Reform and Expansion: Some Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index.