School: The Story of American Public Education

A lively and comprehensive history of public education in the United States, School tells the sweeping, turbulent, and always inspiring story of a great American experiment. Through historical essays by esteemed scholars of education James D. Anderson, Larry Cuban, Carl F. Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, and David Tyack, as well as vivid testimony and historie photographs, it shows how the history of American schools in many ways mirrors the history of American democracy. School is the companion book to…