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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside. Edwin Mellen, 1998. 192 pp. Reese, William J. The Origins of the American High School. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. Robson, David W. Educating Republicans: The College in the Era of the American Revolution, 1750-1800. Greenwood, 1985. 272 pp. Taylor, Bob Pepperman.
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).
Historians of the United States have referred to this approximate period in American history using various names. It has been called the Middle Period . [ 48 ] : 143 [ 49 ] : passim [ 50 ] : 565 [ 51 ] : 120 [ a ] According to Trevor Burnard in 2011, the era "used to be called the Middle Period".
The free school movement, also known as the new schools or alternative schools movement, was an American education reform movement during the 1960s and early 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools.
"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 ...