Schooling the Poor: A Social Inquiry Into the American Educational Experience

by Stanley William Rothstein

By combining history with sociology, Rothstein presents a new way of looking at state-supported schools. He describes the pauper schools of the early 1800s and shows how they became the foundation for the common schools that followed. Compulsory education sought to alleviate urban crime while assimilating the immigrants who flocked to our shores in each generation. In the late 19th century, the militaristic schools became more bureaucratic and set...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897893727
• ISBN13: 9780897893725
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"