Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- 1 Education and social change: Massachusetts as a case study
- 2 Trends in school attendance in nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 3 From apron strings to ABCs: school entry in nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 4 The prospects of youth: school leaving in eight Essex County towns
- 5 From one room to one system: the importance of rural–urban differences in nineteenth-century Massachusetts schooling
- 6 Education and social change in two nineteenth-century Massachusetts communities
- 7 Trends in educational funding and expenditures
- 8 The politics of educational reform in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 9 Conclusion: the triumph of a state school system
- Appendix A Statistical tables
- Appendix B Definition of the variables contained in Tables A2.1 through A2.5, Appendix A
- Appendix C Discussion of adjustments, estimates, and extrapolations made in calculating Tables A2.1 through A2.5, Appendix A
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- 1 Education and social change: Massachusetts as a case study
- 2 Trends in school attendance in nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 3 From apron strings to ABCs: school entry in nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 4 The prospects of youth: school leaving in eight Essex County towns
- 5 From one room to one system: the importance of rural–urban differences in nineteenth-century Massachusetts schooling
- 6 Education and social change in two nineteenth-century Massachusetts communities
- 7 Trends in educational funding and expenditures
- 8 The politics of educational reform in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts
- 9 Conclusion: the triumph of a state school system
- Appendix A Statistical tables
- Appendix B Definition of the variables contained in Tables A2.1 through A2.5, Appendix A
- Appendix C Discussion of adjustments, estimates, and extrapolations made in calculating Tables A2.1 through A2.5, Appendix A
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts , pp. 303 - 335Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1980