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Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Societyreviewed by Thomas V. O'Brien - 2004 Title: Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse Society Author(s): David Tyack Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge ISBN: 0674011988 , Pages: 185, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com In Seeking Common Ground: Public Schools in a Diverse
Society David Tyack explores how Americans have attempted to
use their public schools to create civil cohesion. Tyack is
arguably the top American educational historian alive, and this
book is evidence that Tyack has not lost a step as a scholar since
retiring from
Stanford
University
. In many ways, then, this book has a certain déjà vu
about it: In 1991, and at a similar point his notable career,
Lawrence Cremin, then the reigning scholar of American educational
history, published a small, powerful synthesis of the subject
entitled Popular Education and It Discontents (1991).
Tyack’s Seeking Common Ground is similarly a brief,
but sparkling expression of the essence of his years of research.
America
, Tyack begins, has been and continues to be landed with diverse
groups who operate as part of a contentious democracy. He ends with
a call for greater support for the public school. The book is
divided into three main parts—unity, diversity,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Thomas O'Brien
The Ohio State University at Mansfield E-mail Author THOMAS V. O'BRIEN is an Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University at Mansfield. His research interests include American educational history and school reform. He has published a number of historical studies, essays, and book reviews, including a book entitled The Politics of Schooling and Race: Public Education in Georgia, 1900-1961. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999.
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