Origins Public High Schools

by Maris A. Vinovskis

There has been considerable debate about the process of and the underlying motivation for the expansion of public education in nineteenth-century America. Interpretations which focused on the role of reformer like Horace Mann, or on the demands by workers for more public education, have been criticized by revisionists who see education being imposed upon an uninterested and unwilling populace by capitalists seeking to maintain a docile labor force...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299104001
• ISBN13: 9780299104009
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"