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ERIC Number: EJ312542
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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Public Schooling: A Historical Perspective.
Burgess, Charles
Childhood Education, v61 n2 p91-98 Nov-Dec 1984
Discusses the 1983 "A Nation at Risk" report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education in terms of the history of schooling in the U.S. from the late 1890s to the present. Questions the materialistic emphasis of the commission's definitions of the purposes of education and of the "national interest." (CB)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values, Social Values
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: National Commission on Excellence in Education; United States
Note: Theme Issue: Public Schooling: The Current Crisis