Girl's Schooling During The Progressive Era

Taylor & Francis

This work traces the impact of a differentiated curriculum on girls' education in St. Louis public schools from 1870 to 1930. Its central argument is that the premise upon which a differentiated curriculum is founded, that schooling ought to differ among students in order prepare each for his or her place in the social order, actually led to academic decline. The attention given to the intersection of gender, race, and social class and its combined effect on girls' schooling, places this text in the new wave of critical historical scholarship in the field of educational research. > Contents\n*St. Louis: The Future Great City of the World? *St. Louis Women in United States History: Breaking the Silence *The Decline of an Academic System *The Changing Composition of the Student Population *The Eclipse of the Female Scholar *The Ascent of Domesticated Citizen > \""Every so often a piece of historical scholarship is written that ingeniously synthesizes existing studies with rige