By Matthew J. Brouillette, published on July 16, 1999
Contents
- 1. The Origins of Government Education in the United States
- Early Colonial Period to the American Revolution: A Free Market in Education
- Revolution to the 1830s: New England's First Experiment with Government Schools
- The 1830s and 40s: Horace Mann, the End of Free-Market Education, and the Rise of Government Schools
- The 1850s and Beyond: States Strengthen Government's Role in Education and Restrict School Choice
- 2. A Brief History of Government Education in Michigan
- Isaac E. Crary: The Founder of Government Education in Michigan
- John Davis Pierce: Michigan's First Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Michigan Children Become "Creatures of the State"
- Michigan Education in the Twentieth Century
- "Parochiaid" and the 1970 Amendment to the Michigan Constitution
- The Effect of the 1970 Anti-Choice Amendment
ISBN: 1-890624-14-4,
SKU: S1999-06
From the outset of the first settlements in the New World, Americans founded and successfully maintained a de-centralized network of schools up through the 1850s.


