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American education have been more noble than base, and that its performance over the past two centuries has been more liberating of a greater diversity of human energies and potentialities than has been the case in most other eras and in most other places.
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The historiography of education turned bitter in the 1960s, as New Left radical historians denounced the history of
American education as a failure when it came to promoting democracy and equality. Cremin avoided the debates, although in 1977 he did make clear his support for the traditional liberal
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American education system has contributed significantly to the advancement of liberty, equality, and fraternity, in that complementarity and tension that mark the relations
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In 1961 he became the
Frederick A. P. Barnard Professor of Education and a member of Columbia's history department, directing the Teachers College's Institute of Philosophy and Politics of Education in 1965-1974 before becoming the college's 7th president in 1974–1984, after which he returned to
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beyond the school-centered analysis dominant in the 1940s with a more comprehensive approach that examined other agencies and institutions that educated children, integrating the study of education with other historical subfields, and comparing education across international boundaries.
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American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980
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emphasis on non-academic subjects and non-authoritarian
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Does Going to School ‘Interrupt’ a Child’s Education? -
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American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
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American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
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American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607-1783
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American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876
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147:in 1949. He began teaching at the
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725:History of Education Quarterly
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210:(1961), which described the
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220:Pulitzer Prize for History
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141:City College of New York
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167:teaching and research.
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1233:Education school deans
1028:Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
928:Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
121:Lawrence Arthur Cremin
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143:. His Ph.D. is from
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531:Lawrence A. Cremin,
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675:Cohen, Sol (1998).
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952:Lawrence A. Cremin
191:Spencer Foundation
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