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Tables of Contents for The One Best System
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prologue
3
10
PART I THE ONE BEST SYSTEM IN MICROCOSM: COMMUNITY AND CONSOLIDATION IN RURAL EDUCATION
13
15
The School as a Community and the Community as a School
15
6
``The Rural School Problem'' and Power to the Professional
21
7
PART II FROM VILLAGE SCHOOL TO URBAN SYSTEM: BUREAUCRATIZATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
28
50
Swollen Villages and the Need for Coordination
30
9
Creating the One Best System
39
20
Teachers and the Male Mystique
59
7
Attendance, Voluntary and Coerced
66
6
Some Functions of Schooling
72
6
PART III THE POLITICS OF PLURALISM: NINETEENTH-CENTURY PATTERNS
78
48
Critics and Dissenters
80
8
Configurations of Control
88
9
Lives Routinized yet Insecure: Teachers and School Politics
97
7
Cultural Conflicts: Religion and Ethnicity
104
5
A Struggle Lonely and Unequal: The Burden of Race
109
17
PART IV CENTRALIZATION AND THE CORPORATE MODEL: CONTESTS FOR CONTROL OF URBAN SCHOOLS, 1890-1940
126
51
An Interlocking Directorate and Its Blueprint for Reform
129
18
Conflicts of Power and Values: Case Studies of Centralization
147
20
Political Structure and Political Behavior
167
10
PART V INSIDE THE SYSTEM: THE CHARACTER OF URBAN SCHOOLS, 1890-1940
177
92
Success Story: The Administrative Progressives
182
16
Science
198
19
Victims without ``Crimes'': Black Americans
217
12
Americanization: Match and Mismatch
229
26
``Lady Labor Sluggers'' and the Professional Proletariat
255
14
Epilogue the One Best System Under Fire, 1940-1973
269
26
Notes
295
22
Bibliography
317
28
Index
345