The Politics of School Reform, 1870 - 1940

by Paul E. Peterson

Was school reform in the decades following the Civil War an upper-middle-class effort to maintain control of the schools? Was public education simply a vehicle used by Protestant elites to impose their cultural ideas upon recalcitrant immigrants? In The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940 , Paul E. Peterson challenges such standard, revisionist interpretations of American educational history. Urban public schools, he argues, were part of a politically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226662950
• ISBN13: 9780226662954
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"