Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ312542
Record Type: Journal
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)
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States
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