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Schooled to Order A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States

by: Nasaw, David

Schooled to Order A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States

by: Nasaw, David

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9780195025293
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0195025296
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Copyright: 04/05/1979
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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'This is history of education in its finest tradition, i.e., education s social history rather than as mere schooling... Carefully researched, well written, and even-handed, Nasaw's book is an important addition to the debate over the evolution of public education in the United States.'

Introduction	p. 3
The Common Schools 1835-1855
The New World and the Old	p. 7
The children	p. 7
The spread of indiscipline	p. 16
Charity schools	p. 18
The Ultimate Reform: The Common Schools	p. 29
The reformers	p. 30
The problem with the (unreformed) schools	p. 33
A "common" republicanism; a "common" Protestantism	p. 39
The Campaign for the Common Schools: The Enthusiasts, the Indifferent, and the Opposition	p. 44
The manufacturers and the common schools	p. 44
The workers, their organizations, and the common schools	p. 48
The campaign for school taxes: the reformers vs. the districts	p. 50
Who shall teach the children?	p. 60
The Irish and the Common Schools	p. 66
The Irish: making a living, building a community	p. 66
Schools for Irish children	p. 69
The reformers' response	p. 72
The Legacy of Reform--the Ideology and the Institution	p. 80
The High Schools 1895-1915
The "Youth" Problem	p. 87
The invention of "adolescence": G. Stanley Hall	p. 87
The "bad boys": who were they?	p. 89
The adolescent and the law	p. 93
Child-saving	p. 96
The "youth" problem as a "class" problem	p. 98
The War Against the Wards	p. 105
The call to battle	p. 106
Business leads the charge	p. 107
Reforming the High Schools	p. 114
"Youth" problems, "class" problems, and some early attempts to solve them	p. 115
High schools and white collars	p. 117
The high schools: a new weapon in the battle for exports and against the unions	p. 120
Industrial schooling: for whom?	p. 124
New Studies for New Students	p. 126
Industrial schooling for the "plain people"	p. 127
Differentiation: the new democracy in secondary schooling	p. 129
The new students: what they wanted, what they got	p. 134
Social efficiency in secondary schooling	p. 139
Reaction, Resistance, and the Final Compromise	p. 146
The union response	p. 146
The "plain people's" response	p. 147
The educators' response	p. 150
Secondary schooling: for industrial efficiency or for democracy?	p. 154
The final compromise: the comprehensive high school	p. 156
Higher Education 1945-1970
Between the World Wars: To School or to Work?	p. 161
High School: for whom?	p. 161
College: for whom?	p. 164
One Depression Cured, Another Prevented: Planning for War and Postwar	p. 170
Fighting the war the American way	p. 171
The G.1. Bill	p. 173
In the "National Interest": The Private Universities in Postwar	p. 183
From World War to Cold War: the state and the corporation	p. 184
The RandD explosion	p. 186
Of research and education	p. 189
New funds and functions	p. 192
A "Rising Tide" of Students: the Public Sector	p. 197
Fewer "good" jobs and more job hunters	p. 198
Postwar plans and planners: new goals for higher education	p. 203
The "tidal wave" approaches	p. 205
Of plans and planners	p. 210
The "Tidal Wave" Contained--Open Admissions	p. 214
Open admissions: for whom?	p. 215
Open admissions: to where? and why?	p. 221
The higher education pyramid	p. 230
Conclusion	p. 239
Notes	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 275
Index	p. 295
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