History, education, and the schools / William J. Reese.

By: Reese, William J, 1951-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Description: xii, 218 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781403977441 (alk. paper); 1403977445 (alk. paper); 9780230621213 (pbk.); 023062121X (pbk.)Subject(s): Education -- United States -- History | Postmodernism and education | History -- MethodologyDDC classification: 370.973 LOC classification: LA212 | .R424 2007
Contents:
pt. 1. History and its uses. -- On the nature and purpose of history -- What history teaches about the impact of educational research on practice -- pt. 2. Urban schools in the nineteenth century. -- Public education in St. Louis -- Political economy and the high school -- pt. 3. Private schools, past and present. -- Changing conceptions of "public" and "private" in American educational history -- Soldiers for Christ in the army of God: the Christian school movement -- pt. 4. The fate of the public schools. -- Public schools and the common good -- Why Americans love to reform the public schools.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-212) and index.

pt. 1. History and its uses. -- On the nature and purpose of history -- What history teaches about the impact of educational research on practice -- pt. 2. Urban schools in the nineteenth century. -- Public education in St. Louis -- Political economy and the high school -- pt. 3. Private schools, past and present. -- Changing conceptions of "public" and "private" in American educational history -- Soldiers for Christ in the army of God: the Christian school movement -- pt. 4. The fate of the public schools. -- Public schools and the common good -- Why Americans love to reform the public schools.

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