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The irony of early school reform; educational innovation in mid-nineteenth century Massachusetts

Title
The irony of early school reform; educational innovation in mid-nineteenth century Massachusetts [by] Michael B. Katz.
Author
Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1968.

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Description
xii, 325 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Educational innovations > Massachusetts
  • Education > Massachusetts > History > 19th century
  • Education > Massachusetts > History
  • Education
  • Educational innovations
  • Schulreform
  • Educational innovations > United States > History
  • Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Educational reform: the cloud of sentiment and historiography : The new society -- The new education -- Reform by imposition: social origins of educational controversy : The abolition of Beverly High School -- Educational promoters and the High School -- Local opposition to reform -- Lawrence: from model town to primary school of vice -- The uses of pedagogy: teachers and the educational process : The heresy of Cyrus Peirce -- Society's hot stimulus of action and the necessity of restraint -- The true idea of education -- A new motive to moral excellence vs emulation -- God's gardener: strategies of teacher mobility -- Compulsory education and the urban delinquent: the state reform school : Reformers against the reform school -- Delinquency and the grading of prisons -- From favorable impressions to imperfection of the stock: The theory of crime and poverty -- At once a home and school -- The results of reform -- Educational reform: Myths and limits.
LCCN
68017626
OCLC
  • ocm00176847
  • 176847
  • SCSB-151467
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library