The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts

by Michael B. Katz

Book Overview

By examining small concrete situations, this work suggests that the creation of public school systems in America was a conservative response to rapid industrialization and that myths about the history... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807031879
• ISBN13: 9780807031872
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.