This brilliant and readable book opens a variety of new perspectives on the development of public education in this country...Tyack does the most responsible, nonsentimental social history yet seen, and I think it highly likely that readers will find themselves educated, enlarged, and excited by what he says.
   --Maxine Greene, Today's Education

David Tyack is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of History Emeritus, Stanford University.

Read More by David Tyack:

• Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years
• Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform
• Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society