The One Best System: A History of American Urban EducationHarvard University Press, 1974 - 353 pages 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 narrative in which the participants themselves speak out: farm children and factory workers, frontier teachers and city superintendents, black parents and elite reformers. And it encompasses both the achievements and the failures of the system: the successful assimilation of immigrants, racism and class bias; the opportunities offered to some, the injustices perpetuated for others. |
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
CENTRALIZATION AND THE COR | 8 |
THE ONE BEST SYSTEM IN MICRO | 13 |
The Rural School Problem and Power to the Profes | 21 |
FROM VILLAGE SCHOOL TO URBAN | 28 |
NINE | 78 |
Configurations of Control | 88 |
Teachers and School Poli | 97 |