The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education

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Summary: Want to know why schools have problems? Read this book
Review: Every urban parent and teacher wonders why it is SO difficult to create good urban schools. Funding is certainly an issue, but something else seems to be wrong, something bigger and more unchangeable. Read this book, and you will find the answer: Urban schools were organized this way on purpose. They were structured to be impersonal, bureaucratic, and unequal.

Great book. Tyack ranks as one of the best U.S. historians.

Rating:
Summary: Want to know why schools have problems? Read this book
Review: Every urban parent and teacher wonders why it is SO difficult to create good urban schools. Funding is certainly an issue, but something else seems to be wrong, something bigger and more unchangeable. Read this book, and you will find the answer: Urban schools were organized this way on purpose. They were structured to be impersonal, bureaucratic, and unequal.

Great book. Tyack ranks as one of the best U.S. historians.

Rating:
Summary: No student of education should graduate without reading this
Review: Tyack is the master of educational history. To know where we are, we must know where we have been. No student of education should graduate without reading this book.