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Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools

Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools - Hardcover

by Adam Laats
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Availability:In StockContributor:Adam LaatsPublish date:2024-09-17Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9781421449364ISBN-10:1421449366UPC:9781421449364Book Category:Education, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Schools, United StatesBook Topic:Levels, 19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCVGCNVHJ6

Mr. Lancaster's System: The Failed Reform That Created America's Public Schools

How a con artist "reformer" shaped America's modern public schools.

Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System, Adam Laats tells the story of how...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Johns Hopkins University PressISBN-13:9781421449364ISBN-10:1421449366UPC:9781421449364Book Category:Education, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Schools, United StatesBook Topic:Levels, 19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCVGCNVHJ6

Adam Laats is a professor of education and history at Binghamton University. He taught high school for many years in Milwaukee and is the author of The Other School Reformers and Fundamentalist U.


Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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