Education in America: Nineteenth Century
- 1958 ----- color ----- 16 min ----- 16mm
- Shows the development of our free public school system from the westward movement; change to secular education; influence of American textbooks; rise and decline of the district school; struggle for tax support and state control; contribution of Daniel Webster, William McGuffey, Gideon Hawley and Horace Mann; effect of the Civil War; compulsory attendance laws and rise of teacher training institutions.
- Topics: (Education)
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