Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States
- ISBN-10
- 0195028929
- ISBN-13
- 9780195028928
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 303
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- David Nasaw
Description
Argues that as public schools became integral to the maintenance of American lifestyles, they increasingly reflected the primary tensions between democratic rhetoric and the reality of a class-divided system
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- 1979-04-05
- 320 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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