Maris A. Vinovskis
Family and Schooling in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century America
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
throughout seventeenth eighteenth nineteenth centuries parents schools played important part education young ameri cans historians family education frequently acknowledged complementary sometimes conflicting institutions training young little effort made examine interactions family important source education children colonial nineteenth century america beginning churches schools directed assist parents socialization young indeed midnineteenth century role schools expanded extent many educational tasks initially assigned parents teaching children alphabet read became responsibility schools