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xxi, 799 pages ; 25 cm |
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1. Colonial climate: 1. Henrico College and the East India School -- 2. Apprenticeship theories and practices -- 3. Colonial teacher -- 4. Advertisements of schools, teachers and tutors: tutorial practices -- 5. Varied educational interests and activities -- 2. Toward educational independence: 1. Opposition to the education of Americans in Europe -- 2. Early proposals for a national university and for the removal of the College of Geneva to Virginia -- 3. Early movement for religious freedom: separation of church and state -- 4. Early constitutional provision for schools -- 5. Literary property begins to receive protection: copyright laws -- 6. Chevalier Quesnay de Beaurepaire's Academy of Arts and Sciences in Richmond, Virginia -- 3. New forces and the awakening -- 4. Extending the schools upward before 1860 -- 5. Gaining public support and control; compulsory attendance legislation -- 6. Teachers and teaching -- 7. Some educational practices -- 8. Extending the schools upward after 1860 -- 9. Up from slavery: educational and other rights of Negroes -- 10. Educational and other rights of women: co-education -- 11. Some later educational developments. |
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Education -- United States -- History.
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Education. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Added Author |
Hall, Clifton L. (Clifton Landon), 1898-1987.
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