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Peer reviewedMiller, Pavla – History of Education, 1989
Discusses issues surrounding the development of mass compulsory schooling and explores the possible development of a theoretical framework for analyzing the effects of such schooling. Concludes that compulsory attendance laws make little difference in rates of school attendance. Rather, social conditions create the environment in which laws become…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational History, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedDawson, Andrew – History of Education Quarterly, 1999
Addresses the change from the system of workshop apprenticeship to that of industrial training, pioneered in 1878 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Spring Garden Institute, that eventually spread to the public school system in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). (CMK)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
