Learning from the past : what history teaches us about school reform

Introduction / Diane Ravitch and Maris A. Vinovskis -- Part one: Changesin education over time : Assimilation, adjustment, and access: an antiquarian view of American education / Patricia Albjerg Graham -- Who's in charge? federal,state, and local control / Michael W. Kirst -- Attitudes, choices, and behavior: school delivery of health and social services / Michael W. Sedlak -- Part two:Equity and multiculturalism : Changing conceptions of education equity / David L. Kirp -- Ethnic diversity and national identity in public school texts / Reed Ueda -- American history reconsidered: asking new questions about the past / Gary B. Nash -- Part three: Recent strategies for reforming the schools : The Search for order and the rejection of conformity: standards in American education / Diane Ravitch -- Reinventing schooling / David Tyack -- The New politics of choice / Paul E. Peterson -- Part four: The Six national goals : School readiness andearly childhood education / Maris A. Vinovskis -- School leaving: deade