Education and learning in America

• Main Author: Reef, Catherine.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Facts On File, c2009.
• Series: American experience (Facts on File, Inc.)
• Subjects: Education > History. > United States; EDUCATION > History.; EDUCATION > Comparative.; Electronic books.
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Examines the progress and development of education throughout U.S. history, from the changing theories of education and the differences between urban and rural education to the movements of progressivism and traditionalism to standardized testing.

Table of Contents:

• "That our schools may flourish" : education in Colonial America : 1636-1782
• Schooling a new nation : 1783-1859
• Adversity and increase : the Civil War and its aftermath : 1860-1880
• Meeting diverse needs : 1881-1916
• Scientific management : 1917-1929
• The hardest of times : schools withstand the Great Depression : 1930-1940
• "Every life is affected" : education for victory in World War II : 1941-1946
• Toward equal educational opportunity for all : 1946-1963
• Turbulent years : 1963-1980
• The learning society : 1980-2008.