Managers Of Virtue: Public School Leadership In America, 1820-1980 / Edition 1

by David Tyack, Elisabeth Hansot

Overview

Can America's faith in public education be restored? As they analyze the ways in which public school leaders successfully formed and transformed American education, historian Tyack and political scientist Hansot conclude that the main challenge facing today's leaders is to create a new community of commitment to public education as a common good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465043743
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	10/30/1986
Series:	Public School Leadership in America 1820-1980
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Tyack is Vida Jacks Professor of Education and professor of history, Stanford University. He is the author of, among other works, The One Best System (1974).

Elisabeth Hansot is professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.