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The progressive era in education was part of a larger Progressive Movement, extending from the 1890s to the 1930s. The era was notable for a dramatic expansion in the number of schools and students served, especially in the fast-growing metropolitan cities. After 1910, smaller cities also began building high schools.
The Shaping of American Higher Education: Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System. (Jossey-Bass, 1998) Delbanco, Andrew. College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be (2012) online; Dorn, Charles. For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (Cornell UP, 2017) 308 pp; Dorn, Charles.
Embrace these quotes from one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy.
27. "The end of all education should surely be service to others." 28. "There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle." 29.
Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas is a book by economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell (hardcover 1993, paperback 2003, Kindle Edition 2010) that details Sowell's assessment of the state of education in the United States (both K-12 education and higher education).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Education in the United States of America National education budget (2023-24) Budget $222.1 billion (0.8% of GDP) Per student More than $11,000 (2005) General details Primary languages English System type Federal, state, local, private Literacy (2017 est.) Total 99% Male 99% Female 99% ...
These inspiring quotes from U.S. presidents will help you reflect on our history this Presidents Day. ... we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully ...
John Taylor Gatto's 2001 book The Underground History of American Education linked the "factory school" model to a number of cultural ills and also connected Mann to Prussian factories. Gatto's text has been cited by multiple non-fiction books on education, including The End of Average by Todd Rose (2015) and Schools on Trial by Nikhil Goyal ...