Full Description
This widely praised history of the controversies that have beset American schools and universities since World War II is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the condition of American education today..
Contents
* Postwar Initiatives * The Rise and Fall of Progressive Education * Loyalty Investigations * Race and Education: The Brown Decision * Race and Education: Social Science and Law * From Berkeley to Kent State * Reformers, Radicals, and Romantics * The New Politics of Education * Epilogue: From 1945 to 1980
