TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reese,William J.
TI  - History, education, and the schools
SN  - 9781403977441 (alk. paper)
AV  - LA212 .R424 2007
U1  - 370.973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Education
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Postmodernism and education
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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
ER  -