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A common school was a public school in the United States during the 19th century. Horace Mann (1796–1859) was a strong advocate for public education and the common school. In 1837, the state of Massachusetts appointed Mann as the first secretary of the State Board of Education [1] where he began a revival of common school education, the effects of which extended throughout America during the ...
Pillars of the Republic is history book on the origins of the American common schools written by Carl Kaestle and published by Hill & Wang in 1983.. Rebecca Brooks Gruver of Hunter College described the book as "a comprehensive and [...] concise history" of how public schooling developed in a "common" fashion in the United States. [1]
But by 1910 they had been transformed into core elements of the common school system and had broader goals of preparing many students for work after high school. The explosive growth brought the number of students from 200,000 in 1890 to 1,000,000 in 1910, to almost 2,000,000 by 1920; 7% of youths aged 14 to 17 were enrolled in 1890, rising to ...
From Common School to Magnet School: Selected Essays in the History of Boston's Schools. Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston. ISBN 978-0-89073-059-1. Fraser, James W. (1985). Pedagogue for God's Kingdom: Lyman Beecher and the Second Great Awakening. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-8191-4905-3. [3] Fraser, James W. (1988).
The American infant school movement was largely forgotten, rarely mentioned in literature from the middle decades of the 19th century. [36] Writing in 1986, Pence argued that a worry that young children being cared for outside the home might undermine the family continued to be theme in American public debate throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
In this book, Hofstadter set out to trace the social movements that altered the role of intellect in American society. [3] In so doing, he explored questions regarding the purpose of education and whether the democratization of education altered that purpose and reshaped its form.
As a male writer insulated from many common forms of attack against female feminist thinkers, Neal's advocacy was crucial to bringing the field back into the American mainstream. [ 32 ] During the building of the new republic, American women gained a limited political voice in what is known as republican motherhood .
"Rev. of The Modern School Movement by Paul Avrich". The American Historical Review. 86 (2): 474. doi:10.2307/1857602. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1857602. Weiner, Samuel G. (July 1981). "Rev. of The Modern School Movement by Paul Avrich". Art Journal. 41 (2): 189– 195. doi:10.2307/776479. ISSN 0004-3249. JSTOR 776479. Widmer, Kingsley (1981 ...