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Pages: 294
Authors: David B. Tyack
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In the first social history of what happened to public schools in those "years of the locust," the authors explore the daily experience of schoolchildren in man
Tinkering toward Utopia
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: David B. TYACK
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded
Seeking Common Ground
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: David B. Tyack
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The American republic will survive only if its citizens are educated--this was an article of faith of its founders. But seeking common civic ground in public sc
Soft Leadership for Hard Times
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: George A. Goens
Categories: Business & Economics
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As public schools face hard times, disenchantment and the continual barrage of criticism call for more successful schools. The "soft" sides of leadership-trust,
Class Struggle
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Jay Mathews
Categories: Current Events
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Crown

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Using Mamaroneck High School in Westchester County, New York, as his primary case study, Mathews examines the realities of the top public high schools in the Un