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Managers Of Virtue David Tyack

Managers Of Virtue By David Tyack

Managers Of Virtue by David Tyack

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Can America's faith in public education be restored? As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

Managers Of Virtue Summary

Managers Of Virtue: Public School Leadership In America, 1820-1980 by David Tyack

Can America's faith in public education be restored? As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

About David Tyack

David Tyack is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and professor of history, Stanford University. He is the author of, among other works, The One Best System (1974).Elisabeth Hansot is professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Table of Contents

* Prologue An Aristocracy of Character, 18201890 * The Pilgrims Progress * The Ascendancy of the Common School * The Bureaucratization of Redemption * Leadership in a Decentralized Social Movement * Female Networks and Educational Reform * Discord and Dissent * The Special Case of the South * Harbingers of a New Educational Order Schooling By Design in a Corporate Society, 18901954 * Engineering a New Order * New Careers: The Blending of Small-Town Pietism and Science * The Educational Trust: Reform from the Top Down * Local Superintendents: Social Engineers and Curators of the Museum of Virtue * Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Gender * Dissent and Acquiescence Dreams Deferred, 1954? * Old Ideals and New Claimants * Business as Usual * Protest Movements and Social Justice * Whos in Charge Here? * Are a New Coherence and Community of Commitment Possible?

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NLS9780465043743
9780465043743
0465043747
Managers Of Virtue: Public School Leadership In America, 1820-1980 by David Tyack
David Tyack
New
Paperback
Basic Books
1986-10-30
320
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