Public Leadership: History

0.25 Course Units

This module will examine how Americans have used their public schools to make citizens, from the birth of the republic into the present. By 1850, the United States sent a greater fraction of its children to school than any other nation on earth. Why? What did young people learn there? And, most of all, how did these institutions both reflect and shape our evolving conceptions of America itself? Two Term Class, Student may enter either term; credit given after both terms are complete 0.25 Course Units