This book explores the efforts of educational reformers who sought to link secondary and higher education in the decades after 1870. Through various state, regi

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states

This book explores the efforts of educational reformers who sought to link secondary and higher education in the decades after 1870. Through various state, regi

In The Allure of Order, Mehta recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal. O