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Author Gidney, R. D. (Robert Douglas), 1940-

Title How schools worked : public education in English Canada, 1900-1940 / R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar
Published Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 517 pages)
Series Carleton library series ; 224
Carleton library ; no. 224.
Contents Essential Contexts -- Patterns of Attendance -- Explaining the Patterns -- Schools -- Teachers -- Money -- The Crisis in Educational Finance: 1930-1939 -- The Organization of Instruction -- The Examination System and Its Fate -- The Secondary School Program at Work -- The Teacher's Work -- Supervisors and Their Work -- Questions of Quality -- Epitaph
Summary A study of educational developments in English-speaking Canada from the close of the Victorian Age to the eve of World War II
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Education and state -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Education -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
EDUCATION -- Comparative.
EDUCATION -- History.
Education
Education and state
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Millar, W. P. J. (Winnifred Phoebe Joyce), 1942-
ISBN 9780773587304
0773587306
Other Titles Public education in English Canada, 1900-1940