Turning Points in American Educational History

Waltham, Mass: Blaisdell, 1967. Small quarto in reed cloth boards; xiv, 488 pages 23 cm Ex-library with usual markings, some pencil througgout; else binding is tight and book is overall about very good(-). . Hardcover.

Contents: A city upon a hill: education in the Massachusetts Bay Colony -- The making of a gentleman: education and social class in Virginia -- Education as artifact: Benjamin Franklin and the instruction of "A rising people" -- Forming the national character: paradox in the educational thought of the revolutionary generation -- The common school crusade -- The conservative persuasion: American textbooks in the nineteenth century -- Becoming an American: The education of the immigrant -- Growing up Black: The education of the negro -- Democaracy, bureaucracy, and education: John Dewey and the redefinition of the common school -- The people's college: The emergence of the high school -- The education of teachers and the teaching of education. Education -- United States -- History. Education -- Philosophy.