| Description |
xvi, 554 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Basic professional courses in education
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography at end of each chapter. |
| Contents |
The approach to the study of the American educational system -- The American educational system and its European antecedents -- Social, industrial, and educational changes in the United States since 1870 -- What the schools teach -- Federal participation in education -- State control of education -- Local control of education -- Non-governmental controls of education -- Financing the educational system -- The educational plant and its equipment -- The articulation of the school program -- The elementary school -- The secondary school -- Higher education -- New and variant forms of educational service -- Teachers -- Methods of teaching -- Examinations and tests -- The scientific study of education -- School surveys -- Examples of scientific studies in education -- Innovative ideas in modern education. |
| Subject |
Education -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Judd, Charles Hubbard, 1873-1946.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Russell, John Dale, 1895- American educational system. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. [1940] (OCoLC)573657083 |
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