Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860

Title: Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
Abstract/Description: Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems, Kaestle argues, was encouraged by the people's commitment to republican government, by their trust in Protestant values, and by the development of capitalism. The author also examines the opposition to the Founding Fathers' educational ideas and shows what effects these had on our school system.
Author/creator: Kaestle, Carl F.
Date: 1983
Publisher: Macmillan
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Medium: en Print
Background/context type: en Historical
Open access/free-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en No
Language: en
ISBN: 978-0-8090-0154-5
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Macmillan)
Citation: Kaestle, C. F. (1983). Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860. Macmillan.
Cited in: Democratizing Educational Innovation and Improvement: The Policy Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

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