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For over a century, Americans have translated their cultural anxieties and hopes into dramatic demands for educational reform. Although policy talk has sounded a millennial tone, the actual reforms have been gradual and incremental. Tinkering toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension... read more

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"Is the educational utopia in sight?" W. W. Carpenter, an educator in Missouri, the show-me state, asked that question in 1931 amid the joblessness and suffering caused by the Great Depression.

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  1. David B. Tyack (Author)
 

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