Table of Contents: “…The children who need no parents --…”

Table of Contents: “…Urban school reform, professionalization, and the science of education -- The rural school problem and the complexities of national reform -- Redefining state responsibility in education -- Public interest and parental authority in the compulsory school -- Creating citizens and workers: curriculum reform and the aims of education in a democracy -- Conclusion: School, society, and state.…”

Table of Contents: “…Breeders, workers, and mothers: the beginning of the literacy test debate -- Parents and progeny: the Dillingham Commission Report -- Muscle, miscegenation, and manhood: the literacy test at the height of the progressive era -- Practical aid and sympathetic understanding: Grace Abbott's alternative to the literacy test -- World War I and the literacy test -- The legacy of the progressive era literacy test debate.…”

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Addressing the Self: Autobiographical Metafiction; 1 The Mirrored Self: Helena Parente Cunha's Women between Mirrors; 2 The Self in Exile: Luisa Futoransky's Babelic Metatext; PART TWO: From Self to Family to Nation: The Family Saga as an Autobiographical Genre; 3 Re-membering the Nation by Remembering the Family: Ana María Shua's The Book of Memories; 4 The Autobiographical Text as Memory Box: Nélida Piñon's The Republic of Dreams.…”
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