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Civic Virtue and the Irony of School Reform

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Hugh Davis Graham*
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © 1986 by the History of Education Society 

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3 Indeed, Tyack's books are also strikingly similar in internal architecture, including contemporary photographs used to good effect, poignantly corny editorial cartoons from the American School Board Journal, and in his two books on the great school reforms, an opening cameo appearance by Oliver Cromwell Applegate.Google Scholar

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