Power and the Promise of School Reform

Now published by Teachers College Press, this classic text includes a new Introduction by Jeffrey Mirel as well as new photographs and references that bring the book up to date. Power and the Promise of School Reform remains the foremost volume to examine how grass-roots movements operated during the early twentieth century to shape urban education in the United States.

Carefully researched and elegantly written, this volume moves effortlessly from impassioned Socialist party meetings to smoky union halls, from fervent gatherings of urban radicals to quiet teas with upper-class women reformers. Reese explores the ways in which these diverse community groups struggled to make local schools responsive institutions in a time of dramatic change.

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Preface
The Origins of Mass Education and the Dawn of Progressivism	p. 1
Municipal Housekeepers	p. 27
Voices of Discontent	p. 56
A "Better Class" of Men	p. 79
An Age of Centralization and Grassroots Reform	p. 100
Vacation Schools, Playgrounds, and Educational Extension	p. 131
The Spirit of the Little Red Schoolhouse	p. 158
The School Health Movement	p. 186
World War I and the Contradictions of School Reform	p. 213
Notes	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 297
About the Author	p. 308
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