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The Founding Fathers, Education, and “The Great Contest”Race and Schooling in Early Republican Philadelphia

The Founding Fathers, Education, and “The Great Contest”: Race and Schooling in Early Republican... [Almost without exception, entrants in the American Philosophical Society education contest eschewed any mention of race in their essays. When devising “a plan for instituting and conducting public schools,” winners and losers alike spilled no ink on the question of whether or not African Americans, free or enslaved, should have equal, or any, access to the nation’s newly imagined school system. While several authors engaged with issues of class and to a lesser extent gender, all opted to avoid the question of whether or not a national system of public education should—or should not—be truly universal. Why did these essayists remain silent on the subject of race while reflecting on public education in the early American republic? And what, if anything, does their silence say about the present and future place of African Americans in the nation’s public schools?] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Founding Fathers, Education, and “The Great Contest”Race and Schooling in Early Republican Philadelphia

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series
Editors: Justice, Benjamin
Moss, Hilary
The Founding Fathers, Education, and “The Great Contest” — Nov 14, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-44453-3
Pages
103 –117
DOI
10.1057/9781137271020_6
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Abstract

[Almost without exception, entrants in the American Philosophical Society education contest eschewed any mention of race in their essays. When devising “a plan for instituting and conducting public schools,” winners and losers alike spilled no ink on the question of whether or not African Americans, free or enslaved, should have equal, or any, access to the nation’s newly imagined school system. While several authors engaged with issues of class and to a lesser extent gender, all opted to avoid the question of whether or not a national system of public education should—or should not—be truly universal. Why did these essayists remain silent on the subject of race while reflecting on public education in the early American republic? And what, if anything, does their silence say about the present and future place of African Americans in the nation’s public schools?]

Published: Nov 14, 2015

Keywords: Public Education; Black People; White Child; Black Child; School Segregation

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