Title School, society, and state : a new education to govern modern America, 1890-1940 / Tracy L. Steffes.

Publication Info.	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Description	1 online resource (xi, 284 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Urban school reform, professionalization, and the science of education -- The rural school problem and the complexities of national reform -- Redefining state responsibility in education -- Public interest and parental authority in the compulsory school -- Creating citizens and workers: curriculum reform and the aims of education in a democracy -- Conclusion: School, society, and state.
Summary	& Ldquo;Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife, & rdquo; wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society. In School, Society, and State, Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940. American public schooling, Steffes shows, was not merely another reform project of the Progressive Era, but a central one. She addresses why Americans invested in public education and explains how an array of refo.
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Subject	Educational change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Education and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	School management and organization -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Schools -- Centralization -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Education, Compulsory -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Democracy and education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Educational sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
	EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
	Democracy and education. (OCoLC)fst01743484
	Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
	Education, Compulsory. (OCoLC)fst00902920
	Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
	Educational sociology. (OCoLC)fst00903596
	School management and organization. (OCoLC)fst01107575
	Schools -- Centralization. (OCoLC)fst01107968
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Steffes, Tracy Lynn. School, society, and state. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012 9780226772097 (DLC) 2011032763 (OCoLC)754105028
ISBN	9780226772127 (electronic bk.)
	0226772128 (electronic bk.)
	1280126469
	9781280126468
	9780226772097 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0226772098 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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