Managers Of Virtue

David Tyack is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and professor of history, Stanford University. He is the author of, among other works, The One Best System (1974).Elisabeth Hansot is professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.

• * Prologue An Aristocracy of Character, 18201890 * The Pilgrims Progress * The Ascendancy of the Common School * The Bureaucratization of Redemption * Leadership in a Decentralized Social Movement * Female Networks and Educational Reform * Discord and Dissent * The Special Case of the South * Harbingers of a New Educational Order Schooling By Design in a Corporate Society, 18901954 * Engineering a New Order * New Careers: The Blending of Small-Town Pietism and Science * The Educational Trust: Reform from the Top Down * Local Superintendents: Social Engineers and Curators of the Museum of Virtue * Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Gender * Dissent and Acquiescence Dreams Deferred, 1954? * Old Ideals and New Claimants * Business as Usual * Protest Movements and Social Justice * Whos in Charge Here? * Are a New Coherence and Community of Commitment Possible?