Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order

by Douglas J. Slawson

Between World War I and the Great Depression, progressive educational administrators at Teachers College of Columbia University joined hands with the National Education Association (NEA) to establish a federal department of education and a national system of schooling. This carefully researched book recounts their efforts and the resistance mounted by Catholics who feared that this reform movement would spell the end of parochial education.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268041105
• ISBN13: 9780268041106
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.3"