The dissenting tradition in American education / [print]
James C. Carper and Thomas C. Hunt.
- New York : P. Lang, (c)2007.
- xii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- John Hughes: Catholic dissent in nineteenth-century New York City -- Institutionalizing Catholic dissent: the nineteenth-century parochial school -- The Bennett law: a source of dissent -- Questioning the prevailing orthodoxy: Bible-reading and the Edgerton decision -- Protestant dissent in the nineteenth century: three Presbyterians -- The Christian day school movement: new Protestant dissenters -- The state and the new Protestant dissenters: the Whisner decision -- Homeschooling redivivus: accommodating the Anabaptists of American education -- Final thoughts.
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Church and education--History.--United States Religion in the public schools--History.--United States Dissenters, Religious--History.--United States