Reconstructing American Education

by Michael B. Katz

Book Overview

One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy, education, and the capitalist state. Michael Katz discusses the reshaping of American education from three perspectives. First is the perspective of history: How did American education take shape? The second is that of reform: What can a historian say about recent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674750934
• ISBN13: 9780674750937
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"