Exciting Emulation: Academies and the Transformation of the Rural North, 1780s-1820s

Opal, J. M.

doi:10.2307/3660707

“…A high proportion were sites of newspapers and post offices as well as of major transportation routes. Similarly, in his study of New England academies in the period from 1780 to 1820, J. M. Opal (2004) associated the founding of academies with the commercial transformation of the rural North. Located in commercial villages and promoted by a commercial elite, academies, in his analysis, both forged and diffused a new culture of competitive individualism and social ambition.…”

Section: Survey Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 97%

“…A growing body of literature on academies (e.g., Miller 1922;Sizer 1964;Katz 1968Katz , 1971O'Neil 1984;Perkins 1987;Beadie 1993Beadie , 1999aBeadie , 1999bBeadie , 1999cBeadie , 2002Kerns 1993;Walls 1994;Malkmus 2001;Beadie and Tolley 2002;Green 2002;Randolph 2002;Tolley 2003Tolley , 2005Opal 2004;Nash 2005) provides a basis for both generalizations and comparative analysis across institutions, localities, and time periods. By contrast, the scholarship on venture schools is relatively small.…”

Section: Survey Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a History of Education Markets in the United States

Beadie¹

2008

Social Science History

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The recent shift away from the idea of centrally planned public systems and toward market-based models of schooling opens new territory for scholarship in the history of education. What is the history of education markets? How has the structure of education markets changed over time? This article addresses these questions by surveying existing literature, with an emphasis on the early national and antebellum periods. In the process it brings new perspectives to standard narratives of the history of education in the nineteenth century, particularly regarding the development of state-based educational systems. It then proposes areas for future research and concludes by introducing two examples of new work in this field.

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“…A growing body of literature on academies (e.g., Miller 1922;Sizer 1964;Katz 1968Katz , 1971O'Neil 1984;Perkins 1987;Beadie 1993Beadie , 1999aBeadie , 1999bBeadie , 1999cBeadie , 2002Kerns 1993;Walls 1994;Malkmus 2001;Beadie and Tolley 2002;Green 2002;Randolph 2002;Tolley 2003Tolley , 2005Opal 2004;Nash 2005) provides a basis for both generalizations and comparative analysis across institutions, localities, and time periods. By contrast, the scholarship on venture schools is relatively small.…”

Section: Survey Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 98%

Toward a History of Education Markets in the United States: An Introduction

Beadie¹

2008

Social Science History

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The recent shift away from the idea of centrally planned public systems and toward market-based models of schooling opens new territory for scholarship in the history of education. What is the history of education markets? How has the structure of education markets changed over time? This article addresses these questions by surveying existing literature, with an emphasis on the early national and antebellum periods. In the process it brings new perspectives to standard narratives of the history of education in the nineteenth century, particularly regarding the development of state-based educational systems. It then proposes areas for future research and concludes by introducing two examples of new work in this field.The concept of "education markets" clearly resonates with recent trends in schooling. For the last 25 years, market-based ideas of school funding and organization have shaped education policies throughout the English-speaking world and, through the leverage of international lending institutions, in other nations as well. These policies represent a range of market models, from lim-

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“…Being able to control the labor and education of one's children was presented as a basic parental right and particularly resonated with the Catholic population, which feared Protestant indoctrination in public schools. Suspicions that public funding would be channeled to grammar schools, academies, and colleges patronized by the affluent rather than the primary schools attended by the average child also allegedly fed some of this opposition (Opal 2004; Sklar 1993).…”

Section: Us School Funding In 1850 and The Role Of Grassroots Democracymentioning

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Did Democracy Give the United States an Edge in Primary Schooling?

Shammas¹

2015

Social Science History

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Did the United States circa 1850 provide more primary education to its youth than other European countries, especially Britain? And was its more decentralized and democratic polity an important reason why? Analyzing census data, parliamentary reports, and election results, I find the perceived American advantage in regard to enrollments is due to an underestimation of the population at risk, a confusion of enrollments with attendance, and a lack of attention to differences in the length of school terms. In neither northern or southern counties in the United States did the extension of the franchise correlate with more tax dollars for elementary schools; rather it materialized in counties with more Whig and moral reform partisans whom institutional and social historians have identified as being motivated by external benefits/ social control objectives. More similarities in educational status may exist between the two nations than is often acknowledged and a North Atlantic perspective might be fruitful. Agricultural employments and racial/ ethnic differences surfaced as deterrents to 3R competency in both places, though the spread of a high-fertility population into low-density areas presented the United States with a special challenge. These results suggest that the effects of late-nineteenth-century compulsory attendance and other education legislation merit a reevaluation.

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Exciting Emulation: Academies and the Transformation of the Rural North, 1780s-1820s

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Toward a History of Education Markets in the United States

Toward a History of Education Markets in the United States: An Introduction

Did Democracy Give the United States an Edge in Primary Schooling?

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