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Public education, America's civil religion : a social history
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- Creator
- Carl L. Bankston III, Stephen J. Caldas
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Teachers College Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- ix, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807749470, 0807749478, 9780807749487, 0807749486
- OCLC
- ocn297529903
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
- Religions, political and civil -- Before progressivism : belief in education in a divided nation -- Public education in the progressive era -- Public schooling between world wars : management, design, and varieties of the faith -- After World War II : the education boom, Cold War, and growing calls for equality -- Education for equality and education as redistribution in the 1960s and 1970s -- Anxiety and standards : A nation at risk and the equity-excellence dilemma in the 1980s and 1990s -- Where all the children are above average : entering the 21st century -- Conclusion: American civil religion and the schools