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Title: Pillars of the Republic : Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860 by Carl Kaestle ISBN: 0-8090-0154-3 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 01 March, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: "Common Schools" Designed to Create American Identity
Comment: Kaestle's book is an excellent review of the first hundred years of public education in America. After an introduction that covers Colonial America's mostly private or charity school systems, he outlines the forces that created the move toward public education paid for with tax money. It was a long, slow process, that in some ways was still not complete well into the 20th century, and has not been endorsed universally even now.
I would classify Kaestle's writing style as "easily readable academic" - meaning that you would have to have a more than "magazine article" amount of interest in the subject, but wouldn't be buried in mounds of jargon or statistics. I found it very interesting for someone who wants to know why American public schools are so different from the public schools of England or other developed nations.

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