Tinkering toward Utopia

A Century of Public School Reform

David Tyack

Larry Cuban

  • First Recipient of Annual Harvard University Press Prize for a Book on Education and Society, Established in 1995 by the Virginia and Warren Stone Fund

Prologue: Learning from the Past

1. Progress or Regress?

2. Policy Cycles and Institutional Trends

3. How Schools Change Reforms

4. Why the Grammar of Schooling Persists

5. Reinventing Schooling

Epilogue: Looking toward the Future

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Tinkering toward Utopia
  • A photo of the author

photo of Larry Cuban

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

Larry Cuban is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University and past president of the American Educational Research Association.