Schoolmaster's Empire: Race, Conquest, and the Centralization of Common Schooling in California, 1848-1879

• Published in: History of education quarterly Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 445 - 472
• Main Author: Kelly, Matthew Gardner
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 01.08.2016
• Subjects: Administrative Organization; Educational Administration; Educational Change; Educational History; Educational Innovation; Governance; Immigration; Industrialization; Progressive Education; Racial Attitudes; Urbanization; California

This article explores how education reformers in California pioneered forms of centralized educational governance between 1850 and 1879. Challenging previous scholarship that has attributed the success of this early educational state to reformer John Swett and New England migrants, this article situ...