Download e-book for kindle: Historical Dictionary of American Education by Richard J. Altenbaugh

The historical past of yank schooling is an important and effective box of research. This reference publication presents actual information regarding eminent humans and demanding issues regarding the advance of yank public, deepest, and parochial faculties, masking basic and secondary degrees. as well as significant country and nearby leaders and reformers, it comprises biographies of important nationwide educators, philosophers, psychologists, and writers. matters embody very important principles, occasions, associations, organizations, and pedagogical tendencies that profoundly formed American rules and perceptions concerning schooling. The greater than 350 entries are prepared alphabetically and written by way of professional participants. every one access closes with a quick bibliography, and the quantity ends with a listing of works for extra reading.

Entries have been drawn from a evaluation of major background of schooling textbooks and the History of schooling Quarterly. those themes have been additional subtle through reviews from prime experts and the individuals. lots of the individuals are proven students within the background of schooling, curriculum and guideline, tuition legislations, academic management, and American historical past; a couple of additionally paintings as private and non-private institution lecturers and therefore deliver their useful adventure to their entries. The interval coated starts within the colonial interval and keeps in the course of the 1990s.