This book examines the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.

In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education system as well as a

In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is univ

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservati