University of Wisconsin–Madison

Books

Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History
(Harvard University Press, 2013).
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Rethinking the History of American Education (co-edited with John Rury)
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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History, Education, and the Schools
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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America’s Public Schools: From the Common School to ‘No Child Left Behind’
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
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Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era
(Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986; second edition, Teachers College Press, 2002).
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Hoosier Schools: Past and Present (editor)
(Indiana University Press, 1998).
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The Origins of the American High School
(Yale University Press, 1995)
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The Social History of American Education (edited with B. Edward McClellan)
(The University of Illinois Press, 1988).
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