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Education, society, and economic opportunity : a historical perspective on persistent issues /

Maris Vinovskis critically reviews and integrates recent work in educational history and provides new research on neglected topics. He discusses such issues as: the gradual shift from the family to the public schools in the responsibility for educating the young; the rise and fall of infant schools...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vinovskis, Maris A., 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1995]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Family, schools, and the challenges of economic opportunity and social reform
  • Family and schooling in colonial and nineteenth-century America
  • A ray of millennial light: early education and social reform in the Infant School Movement in Massachusetts, 1826-40 (with Dean May)
  • The crisis in moral education in Antebellum Massachusetts
  • Schooling and poverty in nineteenth-century America
  • Horace Mann on the economic productivity of education
  • Immigrants and schooling
  • Attendance, institutional arrangements, and social support for education
  • The controversy over the Beverly High School
  • Have we underestimated the extent of Antebellum High School attendance?
  • Public high school attendance in Massachusetts in 1875
  • Historical development of age stratification in schooling (with David L. Angus and Jeffrey E. Mirel)
  • A historical perspective on support for schooling by different age cohorts.