Common Schools Before the "Common School Revival": New York Schooling in the 1790's.

Kaestle, Carl F.

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ERIC Number: EJ077577

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Publication Date: 1973

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Common Schools Before the "Common School Revival": New York Schooling in the 1790's

Kaestle, Carl F.

History of Education Journal, 12, 4, 465-500, Win 73

The common school system in New York evolved from the free charity schools, rather than from the common pay schools. In first allocating public financial assistance, the City Common Council made a distinction between teachers hired on salary by the inhabitants of a defined area, and nonsalaried teachers competing on a free market. (Author/WM)

Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Demography, Educational Finance, Educational History, Public Education, Social Integration, State Aid, Urban Schools

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Identifiers - Location: New York

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