In Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (Harvard University Press, 2010), Harvard’s Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Paul E. Peterson, follows the rise, decline and potential salvation of America’s once peerless public schools. Why did public education become ubiquitous in 19th-century America? Mainly because the U.S. was decentralized, so people with different …
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