About this title: This short history of American Education examines our nation's peculiar faith in the power of its schools to solve its various social problems. Focusing mainly on the post Civil War period, it shows how our early public school system was used in an attempt to solve such problems as racial inequality, urban decay, unemployment, and nationalization. It also shows how later problems such as overpopulation, AIDS, environmental pollution, drugs, automobile safety, crime, and cultural discrimination have been put on the school's agenda. In a new concluding section, Professor Perkinson discusses why ...
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Date Published: 1995-01-01
ISBN-13:9780070493711ISBN:0070493715
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sc
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780070493711ISBN:0070493715
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Date Published: 1995-01-01
ISBN-13:9780070493711ISBN:0070493715
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1968
Description: American Faith in Education, 1865-1965. Cover slightly scuffed through use. Softback, Ex-Library, with usual stamps markings, in good all-round condition, 239pages., 250grams, ISBN: read more
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