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American education in the twentieth century : a documentary history

Title
American education in the twentieth century : a documentary history / edited, with an introduction and notes, by Marvin Lazerson.
Publication
New York : Teachers College Press, ©1987.

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Additional Authors
Lazerson, Marvin.
Description
xi, 205 pages; 18 cm.
Series Statement
Classics in education ; no. 52
Uniform Title
Classics in education ; no. 52.
Alternative Title
American education in the 20th century.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1900-1985
  • Education > United States > History > Sources. > 20th century
  • Education > Aims and objectives > United States
  • Education
  • Education > Aims and objectives
  • Bildungswesen
  • Onderwijs
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Sources.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 50-55.
Contents
Introduction: American education in the Twentieth Century / Marvin Lazerson -- Part 1: The transformation of education, 1900-1929. 1. Industrial education for the Negro (1903) -- 2. The talented tenth (1903) -- 3. Why teachers should organize (1904) -- 4. The Dewey School (1896-1903) -- 5. The University Ideal (1904) -- 6. The Liberal College (1912) -- 7. The Flexner Report on Medical Education (1910) -- 8. Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education (1918) -- 9. Schools in Middletown (1929) -- Part 2: Community and change, 1930-1941. 10. Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (1932) -- 11. National Survey of the Education of Teachers (1933) -- 12. The Eight-Year Study (1933-1941) -- 13. High School and Life (1938) -- 14. Special Problems of Negro Education (1939) -- 15. Negro Youth in the Rural South (1941) -- Part 3: Educational Excellence in a Democratic Society, 1942-1963. 16. Elmtown's Youth (1941-1942) -- 17. The G.I. Bill of Rights (1944) -- 18. Community Colleges and Educational Opportunity (1947) -- 19. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) -- 20. Encouraging Scientific Talent (1956) -- 21. Crisis in Education (1958) -- 22. National Defense Education Act (1958) -- 23. The Process of Education (1960) -- 24. The Multiversity (1963) -- Part 4: The expansion of opportunity, 1964-1980. 25. Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965) -- 26. Equality of Educational Opportunity (1966) -- 27. President's Commission on Campus Unrest (1970) -- 28. Open Education (1971) -- 29. Prohibition of Sex Discrimination (1972) -- 30. Bilingual Education (1974) -- 31. Education for All Handicapped Children (1975) -- 32. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (1977) -- Part 5: Dilemmas of the 1980s. 33. The Imperative for Educational Excellence (1983) -- 34. Barriers to Excellence (1985).
ISBN
  • 0807728519
  • 9780807728512
  • 0807728527
  • 9780807728529
LCCN
86030147
OCLC
  • ocm15015966
  • 15015966
  • SCSB-8894998
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library