America and the quest for equal educational opportunity a prolegomenon and overview

British Journal of Educational Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1973, Pages 50-63

  Cordasco, Francesco ^a  

^a Montclair State College ^*  (United States)

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EID: 84972914573     PISSN: 00071005     EISSN: 14678527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071005.1973.9973365     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Lawrence A. Cremin, The American Common School: An Historic Conception (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1951)
2. Sidney L. Jackson, America's Struggle for Free Schools (New York: Russell & Russell, 1965 [orig. 1941]).
3. Cremin, op. cit., 219.
4. Carter G. Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915); and Henry A. Bullock, A History of Negro Education in the South (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967).
5. Edgar W. Knight, The Influence of Reconstruction on Education in the South (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1913); and Virgil A. Clift et al., Negro Education in America (New York: Harper, 1962).
6. Henry A. Bullock, op. cit., 147-8.
7. Robert H. Bremner, From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States for a kaleidoscopic overview of the sources and literature.
8. Samuel C. Parker, The History of Modern Elementary Education (Boston: Ginn, 1912).
9. Bullock, op. cit., passim.
10. For a fuller schema, see Sidney W. Tiedt, The Role of the Federal Government in Education (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), 195-8.
11. Bettye M. Caldwell in Jerome Hellmuth, ed., Disadvantaged Child: Compensatory Education, A National Debate (New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1970), v, vii.
12. F. Cordasco, ‘Poor Children and Schools’, loc. cit., and Meyer Weinberg, The Education of the Minority Child (Chicago: Integrated Education Associates, 1970). An overview of the literature is in D. Alloway and F. Cordasco, Minorities in the American City: A Sociological Primer for Educators (New York: David McKay, 1970).