Chartered Schools
Chartered Schools

Author: Nancy Beadie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1135316597

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Academies were a prevalent form of higher schooling during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States. The authors in this volume look at the academy as the dominant institution of higher schooling in the United States, highlighting the academy's role in the formation of middle class social networks and culture in the mid-nineteenth century. They also reveal the significance of the academy for ethnic, religious, and racial minorities who organized independent academies in the face of exclusion and discrimination by other private and public institutions.

History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900-1950
History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900-1950

Author: Stephanie Nicole Robinson

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780820467207

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Robinson (education, Teachers College of Ball State U.) explores the educational experiences of Irish, Polish, Italian, and Jewish immigrant women and girls in Chicago during the first half of the 20th century, hoping to shed more light on the impact of gender, alongside class, political, and ethnic differences, in the attitudes held towards schooling in the United States. Looking particularly at "Americanization" efforts in educational institutions, she argues that female experiences were fundamentally different from those of men. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).