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      George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins

      David B Tyack

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      Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society

      David B. Tyack

      In this wise and enlightening book, filled with vivid characters and memorable incidents that make history but don’t always make history books, David Tyack describes how each American generation grappled…

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      The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education

      David B. Tyack

      The One Best System presents 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…

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      Work, Youth, and Schooling: Historical Perspectives on Vocationalism in American Education

      At the beginning of the 20th century, American reformers saw vocational education as a promising way to cure many of the nation’s economic and social ills. These essays address the…

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      Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform

      David B. Tyack,Larry Cuban

      The aim of this book is to document the dynamic tension between Americans’ faith in education as a panacea, and the moderate pace of change in educational practices.

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      Public Schools in Hard Times: The Great Depression and Recent Years

      David B. Tyack,Robert Lowe,Elisabeth Hansot

      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 many kinds of communities-the…

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