Table of Contents
Introduction: The Development of Urban Education in the United States; J.L. Rury PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF URBAN SCHOOL SYSTEMS Introduction Common Schools before the 'Common School Revival': New York Schooling in the 1790s; C.F.Kaestle The Origins of Public Education in Baltimore, 1825-1829; T.H.Sheller Popular Education in Nineteenth Century St. Louis; S.K.Troen PART TWO: EARLY URBAN SCHOOL REFORM Introduction Bureaucracy and the Common School: The Example of Portland, Oregon, 1851-1913; D.B.Tyack Urban Reform and the Schools: Kindergartens in Massachusetts; M.Lazerson The Baltimore School Building Program, 1870 to 1900: A Study of Urban School Reform; A.R.Andrews Missing the Mark: Intelligence Testing in the Los Angeles Public Schools, 1922-32; J.Raftery PART THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND POLITICS Introduction Pilgrim's Progress: Toward a Social History of the School Superintendency, 1860-1960; D.B.Tyack Progressivism and Curriculum Differentiation: Special Classes in the Atlanta Public Schools, 1898-1923; B.Franklin Taxation and Social Conflict: Teacher Unionism and Public School Finance in Chicago, 1898-1934; M.Murphy The Politics of Educational Retrenchment in Detroit, 1929-1935; J.Mirel PART FOUR: URBAN SCHOOLS IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Introduction Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago's Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education; J.L.Rury The Community is Beginning to Rumble: The Origins of Chicano Educational Protest in Houston, 1965-1970; G.San Miguel Bureaucratic Order and Special Children: Urban Schools, 1950s-1960s; J.L.Tropea Race, Social Class, and Educational Reform in an Inner City School; J.Anyon The Milwaukee Voucher Experiment; J.F.Witte High Stakes in Chicago; B.Jacobs Epilogue: Past as Prologue: The Uncertain Future of Urban Schooling
