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Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

ISBN: 9780521102353 | 0521102359
Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 3/12/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
This important contribution to scholarship in social science history examines the development of public education in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. Until the 1950s educational historians emphasized the relationship of schooling to the political system and the development of a common American culture.
Education and social change: Massachusetts as a case study
Trends in school attendance in nineteenth-century Massachusetts
From apron strings to ABCs: school entry in nineteenth-century Massachusetts
The prospects of youth: school leaving in eight Essex County towns
From one room to one system: the importance of rural-urban differences in nineteenth-century Massachusetts schooling
Education and social ... MORE
Trends in educational funding and expenditures
The politics of educational reform in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts
Conclusion: the triumph of a state school system
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