Author: Tyack, David; James, Thomas & Benavot, Aaron
Title: Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785 - 1954
Description: Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xi,259 pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, some soil to dustwrapper, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Building Common Schools in a Nation of Republics: Exploring the "Primeval Forest": Federal Influence on the Spread of Public Education, 178 5 -1912; Education as a Fourth Branch of State Government: 19th Century; Law & State School Policy: Case Studies of Michigan & California, 1835 - 1900; Law & the Bureaucratization of Public Schools: 20th Century; Majority Rule & Minority Rights in School law: The Many Faces of Power: The Constitutional Moment: Reconstruction & Black Education in the South, 1867-1954; Moral Majorities & the School Curriculum: Making Virtue Mandatory, 1 8 80-1930; Compulsory Public Schooling & the Perils of Pluralism: The Case of Oregon, 1922.

Keywords: American Educational Law, United States, Public Schooling, School Policy, Education Social, Legal History, Legislation, Schools, Institutional