American education in the twentieth century a documentary history /

Other Authors: Lazerson, Marvin.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [1987]
Physical Description: xi, 205 pages ; 18 cm.
Series: Classics in education ; no. 52.
Subjects:
Item Description: Bibliography: pages 50-55.
Part 1: the transformation of education, 1900-1929. Industrial education for the Negro (1903) ; Talented tenth (1903) ; Why teachers should organize (1904) ; Dewey school (1896-1904) ; University ideal (1904) ; Liberal college (1912) ; Flexner report on medical education (1910) ; Cardinal principles of secondary education (1918) ; Schools in Middletown (1929) -- Part 2: continuity and change, 1930-1941. Dare the school build a new social order? (1932) ; National survey of the education of teachers (1933) ; Eight-year study (1933-1941) ; High school and life (1938) ; Special problems of Negro education (1939) ; Negro youth in the rural south (1941) -- Part 3: educational excellence in a democratic society, 1942-1963. Elmtown's youth (1941-1942) ; G. I. Bill of Rights (1944) ; Community colleges and educational opportunity (1947) ; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) ; Encouraging scientific talent (1956) ; Crisis in education (1958) ; National defense education act (1958) ; Multiversity (1963) -- Part 4: the expansion of opportunity, 1964-1980. Elementary and secondary education act (1965) ; Equality of educational opportunity (1966) ; President's commission on campus unrest (1970) ; Open education (1971) ; Bilingual education (1974) ; Education for all handicapped children (1975) ; Scholastic Aptitude Test (1977) -- Part 5: dilemmas of the 1980s. Imperative for educational excellence (1983) ; Barriers to excellence (1985).
Physical Description: xi, 205 pages ; 18 cm.
Bibliography: Bibliography: pages 50-55.
ISBN: 0807728519
0807728527