Private power for the public good : a history of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ; with a new foreword by Lee S. Shulman.

Author
Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, 1945- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : College Entrance Examination Board, 1999.
Description
xxv, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

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      Originally published: 1st ed. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c1983.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-237) and index.
      Contents
      • Andrew Carnegie and the gospel of wealth
      • Henry Smith Pritchett and the gospel of efficiency
      • Founding the foundation
      • Surveying the professions
      • Systematizing educational measurements
      • Renewing the foundation
      • Corporate vs. state responsibility : Henry Pritchett and "the social philosophy of pensions"
      • Central vs. local control : the Carnegie Foundation and its critics.
      ISBN
      • 0874476348
      • 9780874476347
      LCCN
      98074940
      OCLC
      41034150
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