The standardization of American schooling

Examines the efforts of James B. Angell, president of the University of Michigan in 1872, to create an articulated system of education that aligned schools, courses, and standards at all levels so that students could pass seamlessly from one grade to another, and from the secondary schools to the university, and looks at how Angell's movement spread and was enacted in other states between the 1870s and the early twentieth century.