Carper, James C,

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.



9780820479200

2007001951


Church and education--History.--United States
Religion in the public schools--History.--United States
Dissenters, Religious--History.--United States

LC111.H943.D577 2007 LC111