Author: Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis, Mo., for the Year Ending ...
Author: Saint Louis (Mo.). Board of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Report of the Commissioner of Education
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
The Unheralded Triumph
Author: Jon C. TeafordPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142143525X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Education pamphlets
Author: Sixteenth (Twenty-fifth) annual report
Author: St. Louis Mo, board of directors of the publ. schPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Girl's Schooling During The Progressive Era
Author: Karen GravesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135606900
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This work traces the impact of a differentiated curriculum on girls' education in St. Louis public schools from 1870 to 1930. Its central argument is that the premise upon which a differentiated curriculum is founded, that schooling ought to differ among students in order prepare each for his or her place in the social order, actually led to academic decline. The attention given to the intersection of gender, race, and social class and its combined effect on girls' schooling, places this text in the new wave of critical historical scholarship in the field of educational research.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Annual Report of the Society
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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