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Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity - A Historical Perspective on Persistent Issues (Hardcover, New)
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Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity - A Historical Perspective on Persistent Issues (Hardcover, New)
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In this book, an eminent educational historian examines some
important aspects of American schooling over the past centuries,
illuminating the relation between education and other broad changes
in American society and providing a historical perspective for
contemporary efforts at school reform. Maris Vinovskis critically
reviews and integrates recent work in educational history and
provides new research on neglected topics. He discusses such issues
as: the gradual shift from the family to the public schools in the
responsibility for educating the young; the rise and fall of infant
schools between 1840 and 1860; the crisis in the teaching of
morality in the public schools of the mid-nineteenth century; early
efforts to provide schooling for impoverished children; and the
evolution of the belief that education improves individual economic
and social mobility. He also studies school attendance and
discovers that a much higher percentage of children may have
attended public high schools in the nineteenth century than has
been assumed, investigates when the practice of placing children in
grades according to their age became widespread, and assesses
whether different age groups in previous eras varied in their
support for schooling-as they seem to be doing now.
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