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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2009
Although actual classroom practice has changed far less than one might imagine over the past hundred years, the function and the meaning of American public education have become profoundly different. There are few occupations whose day-to-day activities have changed as little as have those of school-teachers, but the relationship of schools and society has become very different than it was in 1900.
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