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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

By Dana Goldstein

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Hardcover:

9780385536950 | Doubleday, September 2, 2014, cover price $26.95

Paperback:

9780345803627 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, August 4, 2015), cover price $16.00

9780317601558, titled "Mail Order Know-How" | Ten Speed Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | also contains Mail Order Know-How

Old School Still Matters: Lessons from History to Reform Public Education in America

Product Description: Can public schools in America be saved? This book considers theory, current practice, and the common school ideal through a historical lens to arrive at practical suggestions for reforming contemporary public education.â¢ Presents information on a topic of paramount importance, as almost 90 percent of American children in grades Kâ12 attend public schools â¢ Provides a thorough analysis of the writings of Horace Mann, the education reformer largely credited with helping to create the common school in the 19th century â¢ Merges theory and practice, analyzing the common school ideal in a historical sense while also presenting ways to reform contemporary public educatio...read more

By Brian L. Fife

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9780313398094 | 1 edition (Praeger Pub Text, August 12, 2013), cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Can public schools in America be saved?

America's Public Schools: From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind"

Product Description: In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped Americaâs public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiryâeducation as a means for reforming society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves...read more

By William J. Reese

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Hardcover:

9781421400167 | Updated edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 19, 2011), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In this update to his landmark publication, William J.

9780801881954 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 10, 2005, cover price $52.00

Paperback:

9781421400174 | Updated edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 24, 2011), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In this update to his landmark publication, William J.

9780801881961 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 10, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: William J.

The Practice of School Reform: Lessons from Two Centuries

Product Description: Former high school teacher, school leader, activist, consultant, and now professor of education James Nehring combines vivid case studies with practical suggestions to describe how the system works to thwart good schools and what educators can do to improve them...read more

By Larry Cuban (foreword by)

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9781438428451 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Former high school teacher, school leader, activist, consultant, and now professor of education James Nehring combines vivid case studies with practical suggestions to describe how the system works to thwart good schools and what educators can do to improve them.

Paperback:

9781438428468 | State Univ of New York Pr, October 1, 2009, cover price $24.95

Public Education: America's Civil Religion: a Social History

Product Description: In this provocative volume, the authors argue that public education is a central part of American civil religion and, thus, gives us an unquestioning faith in the capacity of education to solve all of our social, economic, and political problems...read more

By Stephen J. Caldas

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9780807749487, titled "Public Education America's Civil Religion: a Social History" | Teachers College Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: In this provocative volume, the authors argue that public education is a central part of American civil religion and, thus, gives us an unquestioning faith in the capacity of education to solve all of our social, economic, and political problems.

Public Education: America's Civil Religion : a Social History

By Carl L. Bankston, III and Stephen J. Caldas

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9780807749470 | Teachers College Pr, April 30, 2009, cover price $35.95

Battleground: Schools

By Sandra Mathison (editor) and E. Wayne Ross (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780313339417 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 30, 2007, cover price $191.00

Unpacking Classrooms in the United States: Selected Historical Sources

Product Description: Book by PRICE JEREMY N, GRINBERG JAIME

By Jaime G. A. Grinberg

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9780757546075 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, December 30, 2008, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Book by PRICE JEREMY N, GRINBERG JAIME

History of Education.

Product Description: Mini-set H: History of Education re-issuesÂ 24 volumes which span a century of publishing:1900 - 1995. The volumes cover Education in Ancient Rome, Irish education in the 19th century, schools in Victorian Britain, changing patterns in higher education, secondary education in post-war Britain, education and the British colonial experience and the history of educational theory and reform...read more

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9780415690317, titled "History of Education" | Routledge, December 8, 2011, cover price $2915.00 | About this edition: Mini-set H: History of Education re-issuesÂ 24 volumes which span a century of publishing:1900 - 1995.

9780866561372 | Routledge, May 1, 1984, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Here are scholarly reviews of literature dealing with past and contemporary issues in public and private education, both nationally and cross culturally.

The Myth of the Common School

Product Description: In this thoughtful, well-wrought study, Charles L. Glenn examines the hisorical development of the idea that the State should sponsor popular education in order to mold common loyalties and values among its citizens in the interest of national unity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Charles Leslie Glenn

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Hardcover:

9780870236020 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $37.50

Paperback:

9781558155220 | Isi Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In this thoughtful, well-wrought study, Charles L.

9780870236037 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $18.95

School: The Story of American Public Education

Published to coincide with the PBS special on public education, this collection of writings by the nation's most renowned historians of education chronicles the story of America's grand experiment in public education. (view table of contents)

By Sarah Mondale (editor) and Sarah B. Patton (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780807042205 | Beacon Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Published to coincide with the PBS special on public education, this collection of writings by the nation's most renowned historians of education chronicles the story of America's grand experiment in public education.

Paperback:

9780807042212 | Beacon Pr, August 16, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Published to coincide with the PBS special on public education, this collection of writings by the nation's most renowned historians of education chronicles the story of America's grand experiment in public education.

Catholic Schools, Public Education, and American Culture

Product Description: Book by McDowell, John B.

By John B. P. McDowell

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9780879733971 | Our Sunday Visitor, January 1, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by McDowell, John B.

Power Grab: How the National Education Association Is Betraying Our Children

Explores the effect of the NEA upon the educational system (view table of contents)

By G. Gregory Moo

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9780895263155 | Regnery Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores the effect of the NEA upon the educational system

A History of American Public High Schools, 1890-1990: Through the Eyes of Principals

Product Description: This text seeks to add to what is already known about American public high schools by examining the perspective of their chief administrators. The research documents a shifting emphasis on the individual, intellectual, social and vocational needs of students in an inclusive context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Neil R. Fenske

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9780773484191 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This text seeks to add to what is already known about American public high schools by examining the perspective of their chief administrators.

Organizing Schools

Product Description: Provides information to help administrators organize school structure, advance effective techniques, increase worker satisfaction, and promote productivity.

By William J. Bailey (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781566764865 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, December 1, 1996, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Provides information to help administrators organize school structure, advance effective techniques, increase worker satisfaction, and promote productivity.

Final Exam: A Study of the Perpetual Scrutiny of American Education

Product Description: Examines some aspects of American education.

By Gerald W. Bracey

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Hardcover:

9780784208076 | Agency for Instructional, July 1, 1996, cover price $24.98 | About this edition: Examines some aspects of American education.

Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity: A Historical Perspective on Persistent Issues

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By Maris A. Vinovskis

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Hardcover:

9780300062694 | Yale Univ Pr, September 27, 1995, cover price $57.00

Lives of Women Public Schoolteachers: Scenes from American Educational History

Product Description: Book by Holmes, Madelyn, Weiss, Beverly J.

By Madelyn Holmes and Beverly J. Weiss

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Hardcover:

9780815308386 | Routledge, June 1, 1995, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Book by Holmes, Madelyn, Weiss, Beverly J.

Present and Past: Essays for Teachers in the History of Education

Product Description: Present and Past provides a critical analysis of major public school issues. The narrative is organized around problems created in the public schools by a lack of social justice in the broader society. Rather than a chronological treatment of educational history, historical incidents and case studies are used to provide perspectives on crucial issues...read more

By Clinton B. Allison

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9780820417806 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 1995, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Present and Past provides a critical analysis of major public school issues.

Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools: The Origins of Modern Educational Thought in America

Product Description: "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools" argues that the thinking behind efforts to reform American schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized two new ideas that economic growth and the opportunity it created were more limited than had earlier been thought, and that popular aspirations should be revised downward accordingly...read more

By Allan S. Horlick

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9789004100541 | Brill Academic Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: "Patricians, Professors, and Public Schools" argues that the thinking behind efforts to reform American schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emphasized two new ideas that economic growth and the opportunity it created were more limited than had earlier been thought, and that popular aspirations should be revised downward accordingly.

Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools

By Elisabeth Hansot and David Tyack

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Hardcover:

9780300047561 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $42.00

Paperback:

9780871548887 | Reprint edition (Russell Sage Foundation, December 1, 1992), cover price $16.95

Public Education

Examines the history, problems, and concerns of public education in America

By Gerald Leinwand

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Hardcover:

9780816021000 | Facts on File, July 1, 1992, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Examines the history, problems, and concerns of public education in America

Seeds of Mediocrity: Philistinism Within American Education

Product Description: Great book for research, study, or review!

By Clara Viator Dobay

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Hardcover:

9780819168801 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 1, 1988, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Great book for research, study, or review!

Paperback:

9780819168818 | Univ Pr of Amer, May 1, 1988, cover price $15.50

Schooling for All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal

Examines the public school systems in Chicago and San Francisco, and argues that equal opportunity is no longer regarded as a right

By Ira Katznelson and Margaret Weir

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9780465072330 | Basic Books, December 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Examines the public school systems in Chicago and San Francisco, and argues that equal opportunity is no longer regarded as a right

Mail Order Know-How

Offers advice on the organization, financing, marketing, and management of mail-order sales businesses and describes the operations of a variety of successful mail-order businesses

By Cecil C. Hoge

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Hardcover:

9780898150162 | Ten Speed Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Offers advice on the organization, financing, marketing, and management of mail-order sales businesses and describes the operations of a variety of successful mail-order businesses

Paperback:

9780317601558 | Ten Speed Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | also contains The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession

9780898150155 | Ten Speed Pr, January 1, 1983, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Offers advice on the organization, financing, marketing, and management of mail-order sales businesses and describes the operations of a variety of successful mail-order businesses

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