Windows on the Past

I. Unity

1. Schools for Citizens: Preserving the Republic

2. Patriotic Literacy: History Textbooks

II. Diversity

3. Same or Different? School Policies and Social Diversity

4. Thoroughly Trained in Failure: Mismatch of Pupil and School

III. Democracy

5. Democracy in Education: Who Needs It?

6. Choices about Choice: No Simple Solution

Reflections

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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

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