Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States / Edition 1

by David Nasaw

Overview

'This is history of education in its finest tradition, i.e., education s social history rather than as mere schooling... Carefully researched, well written, and even-handed, Nasaw's book is an important addition to the debate over the evolution of public education in the United States.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195028928
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/05/1981
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.44(w) x 5.88(h) x 0.77(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of Andrew Carnegie.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	3
I	The Common Schools 1835-1855
1	The New World and the Old	7
	The children	7
	The spread of indiscipline	16
	Charity schools	18
2	The Ultimate Reform: The Common Schools	29
	The reformers	30
	The problem with the (unreformed) schools	33
	A "common" republicanism; a "common" Protestantism	39
3	The Campaign for the Common Schools: The Enthusiasts, the Indifferent, and the Opposition	44
	The manufacturers and the common schools	44
	The workers, their organizations, and the common schools	48
	The campaign for school taxes: the reformers vs. the districts	50
	Who shall teach the children?	60
4	The Irish and the Common Schools	66
	The Irish: making a living, building a community	66
	Schools for Irish children	69
	The reformers' response	72
5	The Legacy of Reform--the Ideology and the Institution	80
II	The High Schools 1895-1915
6	The "Youth" Problem	87
	The invention of "adolescence": G. Stanley Hall	87
	The "bad boys": who were they?	89
	The adolescent and the law	93
	Child-saving	96
	The "youth" problem as a "class" problem	98
7	The War Against the Wards	105
	The call to battle	106
	Business leads the charge	107
8	Reforming the High Schools	114
	"Youth" problems, "class" problems, and some early attempts to solve them	115
	High schools and white collars	117
	The high schools: a new weapon in the battle for exports and against the unions	120
	Industrial schooling: for whom?	124
9	New Studies for New Students	126
	Industrial schooling for the "plain people"	127
	Differentiation: the new democracy in secondary schooling	129
	The new students: what they wanted, what they got	134
	Social efficiency in secondary schooling	139
10	Reaction, Resistance, and the Final Compromise	146
	The union response	146
	The "plain people's" response	147
	The educators' response	150
	Secondary schooling: for industrial efficiency or for democracy?	154
	The final compromise: the comprehensive high school	156
III	Higher Education 1945-1970
11	Between the World Wars: To School or to Work?	161
	High School: for whom?	161
	College: for whom?	164
12	One Depression Cured, Another Prevented: Planning for War and Postwar	170
	Fighting the war the American way	171
	The G.1. Bill	173
13	In the "National Interest": The Private Universities in Postwar	183
	From World War to Cold War: the state and the corporation	184
	The R&D explosion	186
	Of research and education	189
	New funds and functions	192
14	A "Rising Tide" of Students: the Public Sector	197
	Fewer "good" jobs and more job hunters	198
	Postwar plans and planners: new goals for higher education	203
	The "tidal wave" approaches	205
	Of plans and planners	210
15	The "Tidal Wave" Contained--Open Admissions	214
	Open admissions: for whom?	215
	Open admissions: to where? and why?	221
	The higher education pyramid	230
	Conclusion	239
	Notes	245
	Bibliography	275
	Index	295

Editorial Reviews

"A significant new addition to the field of educational and social history. The broad perspective and effective blending of varying historical assessments reveal Nasaw's strength as a writer and historian."—Journal of Southern History

"An important and provocative first book."—History: Reviews of New Books

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