Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Origins of the Common School
2. Postbellum America and the Common School
3. The ""New Education""
4. Democracy, Efficiency, and School Expansion
5. A Democracy of Differences
6. The People's College
7. Rising Expectations and Raising Standards
8. Guardians of Tradition
9. The Fate of the High School
Epilogue
Essay on Sources
Index