Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America - Couverture rigide

Livre 4 sur 9: How Things Worked

Neem, Johann N.

 
9781421423203: Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America
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ISBN 10 : 1421423200 ISBN 13 : 9781421423203
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017

Synopsis

The unknown history of American public education.

At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It's a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country worked together to form districts and build schoolhouses and reformers sought to expand tax support and give every child a liberal education. By the time of the Civil War, most northern states had made common schools free, and many southern states were heading in the same direction. Americans made schooling a public good.

Yet back then, like today, Americans disagreed over the kind of education needed, who should pay for it, and how schools should be governed. Neem explores the history and meaning of these disagreements. As Americans debated, teachers and students went about the daily work of teaching and learning. Neem takes us into the classrooms of yore so that we may experience public schools from the perspective of the people whose daily lives were most affected by them.

Ultimately, Neem concludes, public schools encouraged a diverse people to see themselves as one nation. By studying the origins of America's public schools, Neem urges us to focus on the defining features of democratic education: promoting equality, nurturing human beings, preparing citizens, and fostering civic solidarity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Johann N. Neem is a professor of history at Western Washington University. He is the author of Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts and Democracy's Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1421423200
ISBN 13 
9781421423203
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1421423219 ISBN 13 :  9781421423210
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017
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