School: The Story of American Public Education

Esteemed historians of education David Tyack, Carl Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, James Anderson, and Larry Cuban journey through history and across the nation to recapture the idealism of our education pioneers, Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann. We learn how, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education, and how in the 1950s public schools became a major battleground in the fight for equality for minorities and women. The debate rages on: Do today's reforms challenge our forebears' notion of a common school for all Americans? Or are they our only recourse today?

This lavishly illustrated companion book to the acclaimed PBS documentary, School, is essential reading for anyone who cares about public education.

• Approaches to Teaching (Thinking About Education Series)
• The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future (Multicultural Education Series)
• The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
• Never Underestimate Your Teachers: Instructional Leadership for Excellence in Every Classroom
• The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
• Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way: Lessons from an Urban Classroom (Teaching for Social Justice)
• American Education (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
• Curriculum and Aims (Thinking About Education Series)
• The American Dream and the Public Schools
• Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling (Research for Social Justice: Personal, Passionate, Participatory Inquiry)