One Best System A History of American Urban Education

Name: One Best System A History of American Urban Education
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ISBN: 9780674637825

ISBN-10: 0674637828

ISBN-13: 9780674637825

Edition: 1974

Authors: David B. Tyack

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The One Best System a major new interpretation of what actually happened in the development of one of America's most influential institutions. At the same time it is a narrative in which the participants themselves speak out: farm children and factory workers, frontier teachers and city superintendents, black parents and elite reformers. And it encompasses both the achievements and the failures of the system: the successful assimilation of immigrants, racism and class bias; the opportunities offered to some, the injustices perpetuated for others. Mr. Tyack has placed his colorful, wide-ranging view of history within a broad new framework drawn from the most recent work in history,…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1974
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1974
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Prologue



The One Best System in Microcosm: Community and Consolidation in Rural Education


The School as a Community and the Community as a School


'The Rural School Problem' and Power to the Professional



From Village School to Urban System: Bureaucratization in the Nineteenth Century


Swollen Villages and the Need for Coordination Creating the One Best System


Teachers and the Male Mystique Attendance, Voluntary and Coerced Some Functions of Schooling



The Politics of Pluralism: Nineteenth-Century Patterns


Critics and Dissenters Configurations of Control Lives Routinized yet Insecure


Teachers and School Politics Cultural Conflicts: Religion and Ethnicity


A Struggle Lonely and Unequal: The Burden of Race



Centralization and the Corporate Model: Contests for Control of Urban Schools, 1890-1940


An Interlocking Directorate and Its Blueprint for Reform Conflicts of Power and Values


Case Studies of Centralization Political Structure and Political Behavior



Inside the System: The Character of Urban Schools, 1890-1940


Success Story: The Administrative Progressives Science


Victims without "Crimes": Black Americans Americanization


Match and Mismatch Lady Labor Sluggers" and the Professional Proletariat


Epilogue: The One Best System Under Fire, 1940-1973


Notes


Bibliography


Index