Minds for the making : the role of science in American education, 1750-1990 / Scott L. Montgomery.

New York : Guilford Press, [1994], ©1994.

x, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-307) and index

Science and democracy: emerging trends of faith -- Science in the New Republic: faculty, family, and the failure of idealism -- The Age of Jackson and after, Part 1: popular imagery and public reformers -- The Age of Jackson and after, Part 2: professionalization of science and the role of higher education -- Science as "culture": education and modernism in the late 19th Century -- Science and the Progressives: standards and standard bearers in the Age of Reformism -- What bearing it may have: legacies of Progressivism in the early 20th Century -- The Postwar Era: the return of academism and the Sputnik Revolution -- New voices and old limits: reformism in the late 1960s -- Troubled symbolisms: science and the curriculum at the century's end.