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The purpose of schooling in the United States has never been taken for granted. The religious and cultural pluralism of the country, in addition to its traditions of secularity, civic voluntarism, and suspicion of strong, centralized state power, has resulted in a healthy conversation over the past 150 years about what, exactly, compulsory public schooling is meant to achieve.
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Greenwalt, K. (2016). What Schooling Does to Kids. In: Home/Schooling. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-474-9_2
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