The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education

by Adam Laats

Book Overview

The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely held belief is simply wrong. Upending the standard narrative of American education as the product of courageous progressive reformers, he calls to center stage the conservative activists who decisively shaped America's classrooms in the twentieth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674416716
• ISBN13: 9780674416710
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.7"