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Egalitarianism and the Returns to Education during the Great Transformation of American Education
(University of Chicago Press, 1999)
Secondary school education greatly expanded in the United States from 1910 to 1940, setting its schooling attainment apart from that of all other countries. Barely 10 percent of youth were high school graduates in 1910, ...
A Brief History of Education in the United States
(American Economic Association, 1999)
This essay is the companion piece to about 550 individual data series on education to be included in the updated Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition (Cambridge University Press 2000, forthcoming). ...
Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910–1940
(MIT Press - Journals, 1999)
The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940
(American Economic Association, 1999)
The American university was shaped in a formative period from 1890 to 1940 long before the rise of federal funding, the G.I. Bill, and mass higher education. Both the scale and scope of institutions of higher education ...