Education in Connecticut covers the public and private schools of all levels from colonial era to the present. Originally an offshoot of Massachusetts, colonial Connecticut was committed to Puritanism's high regard for education.[1] Yale College became a national model for higher education.[2] Immigration in the 19th century brought a large working class Catholic element that supported vocational training,[3] as well as a distinctive parochial educational system.[4] The southwestern districts include wealthy suburbs of New York City that use strong public schools to compete for residents.[5]
- ^ Bruce C. Daniels, The Connecticut town: Growth and development, 1635-1790 (1979) pp 108-111.
- ^ O. Burton Adams, "Yale Influence on the Formation of the University of Georgia." Georgia Historical Quarterly 51.2 (1967): 175-185.
- ^ Ivan Greenberg, "Vocational education, work culture, and the children of immigrants in 1930s Bridgeport" Journal of Social History (2007) 41#1 pp.149-160.
- ^ Delores Ann Liptak, "European Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Connecticut. 1870-1920"
- ^ Jack Dougherty, "Shopping for schools: How public education and private housing shaped suburban Connecticut." Journal of Urban History 38.2 (2012): 205-224.