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Bibliography

Anderson, J. (1988). The education of blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Bensman, D. (2000). Central Park East and its graduates: “Learning by heart.” New York: Teachers College Press.

Cremen, L. A. (1961). The transformation of the school: Progressivism in American education, 1876-1957. New York: Vintage Books.

Cubberley, E. (1909). Changing conceptions of education. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Cubberley, E. (1914). Rural life and education: A study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Cubberley, E. (1920). The history of education: Educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of Western civilization. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Cubberley, E. (1920). Readings in the history of education: A collection of sources and readings to illustrate the development of educational practice, theory, and organization. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Cubberley, E. (1934). Public education in the United States: A study and interpretation of American educational history. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Cuban, L. (1970). To make a difference: Teaching in the inner city. New York: Free Press.

Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press.

Cuban, L. (1993). How teachers taught: Constancy and change in American classrooms. New York: Teachers College Press.

Cuban, L., & Shipps, D. (Eds.) (2000). Reconstructing the common good in education: Coping with intractable American dilemmas. [Ed: need publisher info] Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Finn, C. (1977). Education and the presidency. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

Finn, C. (1978). Scholars, dollars, and bureaucrats. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

Finn, C., Ravitch, D., & Fancher, T. (Eds.). (1984). Against mediocrity: The humanities in America’s high schools. New York: Holmes & Meir.

Finn, C., Ravitch, D., & Holley Roberts, P. (1985). Challenges to the humanities. New York: Holmes & Meier.

Finn, C., & Rebarber, T. (Eds.). (1992). Education reform in the ‘90s. New York: Macmillan.

Finn, C. (2000). Charter schools in action: Renewing public education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Gonzalez, G. (1990). Chicano education in the era of segregation. Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press.

Hidalgo, N., McDowell, C., & Siddle Walker, E. V. (Eds.). (1990). Facing racism in education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review.

Hirsch, E. D. (1987). Cultural literacy: What every American needs to know. New York: Vintage Books.

Hirsch, E. D. (1988). Cultural literacy (video recording). McNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities.

Hirsch, E. D. (1993). The dictionary of cultural literacy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Hirsch, E. D. (1996). The schools we need and why we don’t have them. New York: Doubleday.

Heubert, J., & Hauser, R. (Eds.). (1999). High stakes: Testing for tracking, promotion, and graduation. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Heubert, J. (Ed.). (1999). Law and school reform: Six strategies for promoting educational equity. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.

Kaestle, C. (1973). The evolution of an urban school system: New York City, 1750-1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Kaestle, C. (1973). Joseph Lancaster and the monitorial school movement: A documentary history. New York: Teachers College Press.

Kaestle, C. (1980). Education and social change in nineteenth-century Massachusetts. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kaestle, C. (1983). Pillars of the republic: Common schools and American society, 1780-1860. New York: Hill and Wang.

Kish Sklar, K. (1973). Catherine Beecher: A study in domesticity. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.

Kozol, J. (1967). Death at an early age: The destruction of the hearts and minds of Negro children in the Boston public schools. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Kozol, J. (1992). Savage inequalities: Children in America’s schools. New York: Harper Perennial.

Lemann, N. (1999). The big test: The secret history of the American meritocracy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Lund, L. (1993). Ten years after “a nation at risk.&148; New York: Conference Board.

Mirel, J., & Angus, D. (1999). The failed promise of the American high school. New York: Teachers College Press.

Mirel, J. (1999). The rise and fall of an urban school system: Detroit 1907-1981. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Orfield, G. (1978). Must we bus? Segregated schools and national policy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

Orfield, G. (1988). Separate societies: Have the Kerner warnings come true? In F. R. Harris and R. W. Wilkins, Eds., Quiet riots-Race and poverty in the United States. New York: Pantheon.

Perkinson, H. J. (1977). The imperfect panacea: American faith in education, 1865-1976. New York: Random House.

Ravitch, D. (1974). The great school wars: New York City, 1805-1973. New York: Basic Books.

Ravitch, D. (1983). The troubled crusade: American education, 1945-1980. New York: Basic Books.

Ravitch, D. (1990). Diversity and democracy: Multicultural education in America, in American Educator 14 (Spring): 16-20, 46-48.

Ravitch, D. (2000). Left back: A century of failed school reforms. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Riley, R. (1995). Turning the corner: From a nation at risk to a nation with a future: Second annual address. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education.

Siddle Walker, V. (1996). Their highest potential: An African American school community in the segregated South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Smith, T. (1994). America’s teachers ten years after “a nation at risk”: Findings from the condition of education 1994. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics.

Spring, J. (1978). American education: An introduction to social and political aspects. New York: Longman.

Spring, J. (1990). The American school, 1642-1990: Varieties of historical interpretation of the foundations and development of American education. New York: Longman.

Spring, J. (1996). The cultural transformation of a Native American family and its tribe, 1763-1995: A basket of apples. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Spring, J. (1998). Conflict of interests: The politics of American education. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Spring, J. (2000). The universal right to education: Justification, definition, and guidelines. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Spring, J. (2001). Deculturalization and the struggle for equality: A brief history of the education of dominated cultures in the United States. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Tyack, D. (1974). The one best system: A history of American urban education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Tyack, D. (1984). Public schools in hard times: The Great Depression and recent years. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Tyack, D. (1987). Law and the shaping of public education, 1785-1954. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Tyack, D. (1990). Learning together: A history of coeducation in American schools. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.

Tyack, D., & Cuban, L. (1995). Tinkering toward utopia: A century of public school reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Wolfe, L. (1991). Women, work, and school: Occupational segregation and the role of education. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.


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