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The Development of Urban Schooling in America - Carl F. Kaestle, The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1750–1860 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973). 205 pages, tables, bibliographical note, index. - Carl F. Kaestle and Maris A. Vinovskis, Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980). 349 pages, tables, charts, 64 pages of statistical appendices. $22.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

David C. Hammack
David C. Hammack*
Affiliation:
University of Houston, Central Campus
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Spring 1983 , pp. 69 - 76
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Copyright © 1983 by History of Education Society 

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Notes

1. Bailyn, Bernard, Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities for Study (Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1960), p. 14.Google Scholar

2. Katz, Michael B., The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), p. vi.Google Scholar

3. Bailyn, , Education in the Forming of American Society, p. 8. The most insistent critic of the revisionists has been Ravitch, Diane; see, e.g., her indiscriminate polemic, The Revisionists Revised (New York, 1978).Google Scholar

4. Tyack, David B., The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (Cambridge, Mass., 1974).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5. For an account of public education and efforts to reform it in New York City during the 1890s, see Hammack, David C., Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century (New York, 1982), chapter 9.Google Scholar

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7. Bowles, Samuel and Gintis, Herbert, Schooling in Capitalist America (New York, 1976).Google Scholar