Reviews

This is a history with a present-day purpose. In Reconstructing American Education, historian Michael Katz attacks the once-standard view of American educational history as a story of progressive improvement. In its place he substitutes a critical account of how big-city school systems turned into increasingly unwieldy bureaucracies in the nineteenth century.
*NEA Today*

Bound to stimulate a new rush of polemic commentary… Katz makes a strong case for a constructive role that could be played by reasonable historians.
*Perspective*