Outside in: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education

by Paula S. Fass

Book Overview

Ever since the massive immigration from Europe of the late 19th century, American society has accomodated people of many cultures, religions, languages, and expectations. The task of integration has increasingly fallen to the schools, where children are taught a common language and a set of democratic values and sent on their ways to become productive members of society. How American schools have set about educating these diverse students, and how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195037901
• ISBN13: 9780195037906
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"