Founding fathers, education, and "the great contest" : the american.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contests--United States--History--18th century.

Contests.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

In 1795, the nation's leading research institution offered a prize for the best essay on a system of public education for the United States. Over the next two years, the proposals they received ranged from the ridiculous to the provocative to the eerily familiar. The Founding Fathers, Education, and "The Great Contest" revisits that unique moment in American history, when the founding fathers first opened the enduring debate on how best to educate the American citizenry. In ten essays, leading historians use the American Philosophical Society's education prize as a starting point for broader explorations of critical themes: gender, race, religion, public versus private education, centralization versus localism, voluntary associations, higher education, and research methods. This book also publishes, for the first time, all of the original contest essays together. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Foreword / Carl Kaestle

1. Introduction / Benjamin Justice

PART I: METHODS

2. The Mysterious No. 3 / Lisa Green

3. 'Raked from the Rubbish': Stylometric Authorship Attribution and the 1795 American Philosophical Society Education Contest / Eric Strome

PART II: MEANINGS

4. False Start: The Failure of an Early Race to the Top / Campbell Scribner

5. Useful Knowledge in the Early Republic / Nancy Beadie

6. Race and Schooling in Early Republican Philadelphia / Hilary Moss

7. Gender and Citizenship in Educational Plans in the New Republic / Margaret Nash

8. The Significance of the 'French School' in Early National Female Education / Kim Tolley

9. The Place of Religion in Early National School Plans / Benjamin Justice

10. The Perceived Dangers of Study Abroad, 1780-1800: Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American University / Adam Nelson

PART III: MATERIALS

11. Essays from the American Philosophical Society Education Contest, 1795-1797

Introduction to the Essays: Reading the Late 18th century in the Early 21st / Benjamin Justice

Samuel Harrison Smith, Remarks on Education

Rev. Samuel Knox, An Essay on the Best System of Education

Review of Essay #3

Hiram, On Education and Public Schools

Academicus, Plan for the Education of Youth

Hand, Concerning Education in Public Schools

Freedom, Concerning Education in Pennsylvania.

ISBN:

1137271019

9781137271013

OCLC:

837143426