| Title : | The One Best System : A History of American Urban Education | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | David B Tyack, Editor | | Publisher: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univeristy Press | | Publication Date: | 1974 | | Pagination: | xii, 353 p. | | Layout: | ill. | | Size: | 21 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-674-63782-5 | | Price: | 17 $ | | General note: | Includes notes (p.395-316)
Includes bibliographical references (p.317-343)
Includes index (p.345-353) | | Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) | | Descriptors: | Education, Urban
School management and organization
| | Class number: | 370 | | Abstract: | "This brilliant and readable book opens a variety of new perspectives on the development of public education in this country. Tyack does the most responsible, nonsentimental social history yet seen, and I think it highly likely that readers will find themselves educated, enlarged, and excited by what he says." - Maxine Greene, Today's Education. The One Best System a major new interpretation of what actually happened in the development of one of America's most influential institu¬tions. At the same time it is a narrative in which the participants them¬selves 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 sytem: the successful assimilation of immigrants, racism and class bias; the opportunities offer¬ed to some, the injustices perpetuated for others. Mr. Tyack has placed his colorful, wide-ranging view of history within a broad new framework drawn from the most recent work in history, sociol¬ogy, and political science. He looks at the politics and inertia, the ideolo¬gies and power struggles that formed the basis of our present educational system. Using a variety of social perspectives and methods of analysis, David Tyack illuminates for all readers the change from village to urban ways of thinking and acting over the course of more than one hundred years. | | Contents note: | The one best system in microcosm : community and consolidation in rural education; From village school to urban system : bureaucratization in the nineteenth centry; The politics of pluralism : nineteenth-centry patterns; Centralization and the corporate model : contests for control of urban schools, 1890-1940; Inside the system : the character of urban schools, 1890-1940; Epilogue the best system under fire 1940-1973; | | Link for e-copy: | http://books.google.com/books?id=9gkiYzmk1gkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_nav [...] | | Format of e-copy: | http:// | | Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=14210 |
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The One Best System / David B Tyack 
