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Public Education and Political Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

R. Freeman Butts
R. Freeman Butts*
Affiliation:
Foundations of Education and Associate Dean for International Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University
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FOR SOME FIFTEEN YEARS we have been busily engaged in revising the history of American education. It is now time to gain some perspective on the revisionist movements as we look ahead to see what shape the historiography of education should take in the next fifteen years.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Summer 1974 , pp. 165 - 184
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Copyright © 1974 by New York University 

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