In recent decades, there has been rising anxiety about the quality of the public education in the United States … terms of the public provision of education at all levels of schooling. This chapter documents this history, describing the … conditions in the early years of the country that were conducive to the rise of universal public education, in particular the …

Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka . A theme of convergence is central to the narrative. Slaves were … Emancipation, black children continued to face many obstacles in acquiring education. In addition to their relative poverty and …