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Product Description: Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system...read more

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9780674073043 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 11, 2013, cover price $47.50 | About this edition: Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s.

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Product Description: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction simultaneously resurrects a lost dimension of a most important segment of American history and illuminates America's present and future by showing the role religious issues played in Reconstruction during the 1870s. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791438473 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $55.50 | About this edition: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction simultaneously resurrects a lost dimension of a most important segment of American history and illuminates America's present and future by showing the role religious issues played in Reconstruction during the 1870s.

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9780791438480, titled "Religion, Race and Reconstruction: The Public School in the Politics of the 1870s" | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction simultaneously resurrects a lost dimension of a most important segment of American history and illuminates America's present and future by showing the role religious issues played in Reconstruction during the 1870s.

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Looks at America's original, locally-controlled schools, describes the creation of state-controlled public school systems, and discusses the factors that shaped the reform movement

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9780809001545 | Hill & Wang Pub, March 1, 1983, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Looks at America's original, locally-controlled schools, describes the creation of state-controlled public school systems, and discusses the factors that shaped the reform movement

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