| Description |
xi, 259 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
PART I: Building Common Schools in a Nation of Republics -- PROLOGUE: Exploring the "Primeval Forest" -- Federal Influence on the Spread of Public Education, 1785-1912 -- Education as a Fourth Branch of State Government: Nineteenth Century -- Law and State School Policy: Case Studies of Michigan and California, 1835-1900 -- Law and the Bureaucratization of Public Schools: Twentieth Century -- PART II: Majority Rule and Minority Rights in School Law -- PROLOGUE: The Many Faces of Power -- The Constitutional Moment: Reconstruction and Black Education in the South, 1867-1954 -- Moral Majorities and the School Curriculum: Making Virtue Mandatory, 1880-1930 -- Compulsory Public Schooling and the Perils of Pluralism: The Case of Oregon, 1922. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 219-252. |
| Subject |
Educational law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Education and state -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
James, Thomas, 1948-
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Benavot, Aaron.
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| ISBN |
0299108805: $25.00 |
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