Education and social change : contours in the history of American schooling /
John L. Rury.
- 3rd ed.
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
- x, 273 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.
1. Introduction: history, social change, and education -- 2. Colonial America: religion, inequality, and revolution -- 3. Emergence of a modern school system: the 19th Century -- 4. Ethnicity, gender, and race: contours of social change in the 19th Century -- 5. Growth, reform, and differentiation: the Progressive Era -- 6. The human capital revolution: postwar America to the end of the 20th Century -- Epilogue: recent developments and looking to the future.