School, society, and state : a new education to govern modern America, 1890-1940 / Tracy L. Steffes.

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Steffes, Tracy Lynn

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9780226772127
0226772128
1280126469
9781280126468

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: School, society, and state.DDC classification:

379.73 23

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LC191.4 .S74 2012eb

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Contents:

Urban school reform, professionalization, and the science of education -- The rural school problem and the complexities of national reform -- Redefining state responsibility in education -- Public interest and parental authority in the compulsory school -- Creating citizens and workers: curriculum reform and the aims of education in a democracy -- Conclusion: School, society, and state.

Summary: & Ldquo;Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife, & rdquo; wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940. American public schooling, Steffes shows, was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education and explains how an array of refo.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

& Ldquo;Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife, & rdquo; wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940. American public schooling, Steffes shows, was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education and explains how an array of refo.

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