America’s commitment to public schooling once seemed unshakable. But today the movement to privatize K–12 education is stronger than ever. Samuel E. Abrams

American schools have always been locally created and controlled. But ever since the Title I program in 1965 appropriated nearly one billion dollars for public

Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. B

In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking

Head Start. Bilingual education. Small class size. Social promotion. School funding. Virtually every school system in America has had to face these issues over