The Child, the Parent, and the State

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The distinguished James Byant Conant offers illuminating new material on the subject of educational reform. Based on material delivered in several lectures at Harvard, Smith College, and Wayne State University, this book includes expanded sections on the relation of the public schools to the Federal Government, and Conant offers his opinion of problems in Federal aid to education.