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| Introduction | |
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| The Common Schools 1835-1855 | |
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| The New World and the Old | |
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| The children | |
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| The spread of indiscipline | |
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| Charity schools | |
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| The Ultimate Reform: The Common Schools | |
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| The reformers | |
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| The problem with the (unreformed) schools | |
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| A "common" republicanism; a "common" Protestantism | |
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| The Campaign for the Common Schools: The Enthusiasts, the Indifferent, and the Opposition | |
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| The manufacturers and the common schools | |
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| The workers, their organizations, and the common schools | |
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| The campaign for school taxes: the reformers vs. the districts | |
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| Who shall teach the children? | |
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| The Irish and the Common Schools | |
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| The Irish: making a living, building a community | |
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| Schools for Irish children | |
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| The reformers' response | |
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| The Legacy of Reform--the Ideology and the Institution | |
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| The High Schools 1895-1915 | |
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| The "Youth" Problem | |
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| The invention of "adolescence": G. Stanley Hall | |
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| The "bad boys": who were they? | |
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| The adolescent and the law | |
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| Child-saving | |
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| The "youth" problem as a "class" problem | |
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| The War Against the Wards | |
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| The call to battle | |
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| Business leads the charge | |
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| Reforming the High Schools | |
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| "Youth" problems, "class" problems, and some early attempts to solve them | |
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| High schools and white collars | |
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| The high schools: a new weapon in the battle for exports and against the unions | |
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| Industrial schooling: for whom? | |
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| New Studies for New Students | |
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| Industrial schooling for the "plain people" | |
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| Differentiation: the new democracy in secondary schooling | |
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| The new students: what they wanted, what they got | |
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| Social efficiency in secondary schooling | |
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| Reaction, Resistance, and the Final Compromise | |
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| The union response | |
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| The "plain people's" response | |
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| The educators' response | |
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| Secondary schooling: for industrial efficiency or for democracy? | |
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| The final compromise: the comprehensive high school | |
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| Higher Education 1945-1970 | |
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| Between the World Wars: To School or to Work? | |
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| High School: for whom? | |
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| College: for whom? | |
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| One Depression Cured, Another Prevented: Planning for War and Postwar | |
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| Fighting the war the American way | |
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| The G.1. Bill | |
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| In the "National Interest": The Private Universities in Postwar | |
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| From World War to Cold War: the state and the corporation | |
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| The RandD explosion | |
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| Of research and education | |
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| New funds and functions | |
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| A "Rising Tide" of Students: the Public Sector | |
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| Fewer "good" jobs and more job hunters | |
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| Postwar plans and planners: new goals for higher education | |
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| The "tidal wave" approaches | |
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| Of plans and planners | |
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| The "Tidal Wave" Contained--Open Admissions | |
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| Open admissions: for whom? | |
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| Open admissions: to where? and why? | |
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| The higher education pyramid | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |