Download or read book The Common School Awakening written by David Komline and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common School Awakening offers a new narrative that counters previous conceptions about the rise of public schools in America. In this book, David Komline tells how Christian reformers played a defining role in the movement to systematize and professionalize American education in the first half of the nineteenth century.