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The roots of controversy surrounding better schooling within the US expand deep into the prior. This unique, incisive historical past is going some distance in supplying a wanted experience of point of view on present debates over such matters as entry, expenses, educational caliber, social fairness, and curricula. Eminently readable and continuously vigorous, this well timed ancient account is bound to be a useful source for assessing the current and destiny customers of yankee faculties and universities.

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