David Tyack
Biographic Data
| ID | 174562 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Tyack |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Tyack |
| SIGNATURE | TYACK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 419 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Preserving the Republic by Educating Republicans
Tinkering toward Utopia
Educational Forums of the 1930s
Through an exploration of deliberative forums during the Great Depression, this article considers how Americans have turned to civic education in times of national crisis. The 1930s were a deeply threatening time for democracy, and the forum movement sought to counter revolutionary rhetoric and action with a vision of citizenship based on informed, objective analysis. The many tensions inherent in the forming of citizens—such as critical thinking…
Reflections on Histories of U.S. Education
Monuments Between Covers
History textbooks have represented state-approved civic truth. They reveal what adults thought children should learn about the past and are probably the best index of what young Americans did learn in class. History texts have given the past a patriotic gloss, varnishing familiar icons and perpetuating familiar interpretations. Like monuments designed to commemorate and re-present emblematic figures and events, textbooks shaped the public culture…
Diversity and Its Discontents
Tinkering toward Utopia
History and Educational Reform
Robert L. Hampel, William R. Johnson, David N. Plank, Diane Ravitch, David Tyack, Larry Cuban, History and Educational Reform, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 473-502
The “Grammar” of Schooling
Why have the established institutional forms of schooling been so stable and why did most challenges fade or become marginalized? We approach these questions by probing a few case studies of reform, some that lasted to become part of the grammar of schooling and some that did not. We begin by exploring the origins of two enduring institutional forms, the graded school and the Carnegie unit. Next we analyze the history of three transient attacks o…
Health and Social Services in Public Schools
There is a long history in United States of providing noneducational services to in a school setting. Initially, as part of social reform efforts early in this century, health services were provided primarily by public health doctors and dentists who volunteered their services. Groups such as philanthropic women's clubs provided breakfasts or lunches, vacation schools, and playgrounds. In urban slums, settlement houses pioneered new forms of scho…
Schools and Politics
Public School Reform
The essay explores the complex relation between policy talk and institutional change in educational reform. It suggests problems with conventional divisions of history into "reform periods" and contrasts bursts of reform rhetoric with long-term trends in practice. Such trends are by no means easy to determine, for statistics are spotty. Reforms often go through distinct phases, penetrate different types of school districts at different rates, and…
Learning Together
Journal Article Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Schools. By David Tyack and Elisabeth Hansot. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. xii + 369 pp. $29.95.) Get access Lynn D. Gordon Lynn D. Gordon University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Pages 1066–1067, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078846 Published: 01 Dec…
Learning Together
Children of the Mill
Coeducation in Public Schools
The "Boy Problem" and the "Woman Question
Outside In
Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785-1954
Journal Article Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785–1954 Get access Tyack David James Thomas Benavot Aaron, Law and the Shaping of Public Education 1785–1954. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. xi, 259 pp. $25.00. William G. Buss William G. Buss University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 33, Issue 2, April 1989, Pages 184–185, …
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Silence and Policy Talk
Three puzzles arise in looking at the history of public education through the lens of gender. Why did some major shifts in gender practices, like the emergence of coeducation in the early 19th century, take place with only minor controversy and in relative silence? Conversely, why did certain kinds of vehement policy talk—for example about the way hard study ruined girls' health or about the way women teachers “feminized” boys—affect practice so …
Law and the Shaping of Public Education
Gender in American Public Schools
Managers Of Virtue
Tinkering toward Utopia
The “Grammar” of Schooling
Why have the established institutional forms of schooling been so stable and why did most challenges fade or become marginalized? We approach these questions by probing a few case studies of reform, some that lasted to become part of the grammar of schooling and some that did not. We begin by exploring the origins of two enduring institutional forms, the graded school and the Carnegie unit. Next we analyze the history of three transient attacks o…
Public Education as Nation-Building in America
Current discussions of the effects of urbanization and industrialization on the bureaucratization of American public education in the later 19th century do not offer effective explanations of the expansion of the educational system in the first place. Enrollments were high much earlier than these explanations suggest and were probably higher in rural than in urban settings. We argue that the spread of public education, especially in the North and…
Diversity and Its Discontents
Learning Together
The One Best System
Gender in American Public Schools
Why Do Women Teach and Men Manage? A Report on Research on Schools
Managers Of Virtue
Health and Social Services in Public Schools
There is a long history in United States of providing noneducational services to in a school setting. Initially, as part of social reform efforts early in this century, health services were provided primarily by public health doctors and dentists who volunteered their services. Groups such as philanthropic women's clubs provided breakfasts or lunches, vacation schools, and playgrounds. In urban slums, settlement houses pioneered new forms of scho…
Public School Reform
The essay explores the complex relation between policy talk and institutional change in educational reform. It suggests problems with conventional divisions of history into "reform periods" and contrasts bursts of reform rhetoric with long-term trends in practice. Such trends are by no means easy to determine, for statistics are spotty. Reforms often go through distinct phases, penetrate different types of school districts at different rates, and…
The Tribe and the Common School
Pilgrim's Progress
THE DEATHS of great men in national and political history are commemorated by song, story and memorial days, Aaron Gove told his fellow school superintendents in 1900. Only in secluded family circles, and midst the personal friends, are the works and lives of heroic schoolmasters recorded and remembered. To this day, historians have largely neglected those who probably did more than any other individuals to shape the day-to-day operation of Ameri…
The Constitutional Moment
For a brief period after the Civil War, blacks gained a measure of political influence in Southern states. They used this nascent power first in a grass roots movement to build, fund, and staff schools. Then they joined with Radical Republicans in the Congress and with allies in Southern constitutional conventions during Congressional Reconstruction to establish free and universal public education. This article examines these political campaigns …
Bureaucracy and the Common School
State Government and American Public Education
James Bryce observed in 1888 that who would understand the changes [in] the American democracy will find far more instruction in a study of the State governments than of the Federal Constitution. So neglected was the subject, he found, that could not even be called a field: it is rather a primeval forest, where the vegetation is rank, and through which scarcely a trail has yet been cut. Although Bryce himself cut one such path in The American Com…
Courts and Public Schools
This study is an exploratory social history of litigation about public education. Using West digests as an index of appellate cases, it first examines the changing volume and character of litigation from the earliest recorded cases until 1981. It then relates trends in litigation to two broad phases of educational history: the system-building era, when courts helped to clarify the lines of authority in an ambiguously decentralized system; and the…
The Man Nobody Liked
flattering. In 1880 a writer in Harper's Magazine expressed a common view: purpose of agent ... is to let loose upon truant scholars and nonattendants legal 'dogs of war,' and woe be to hapless urchin who becomes object of his terrible eye. Petitions, complaints, warrants, and commitments are hurled at his devoted head, until he is thrust headlong into Attendance School-a sort of earthly purgatory. In 1918 supervisor of attendance in Milwaukee co…
The Classless Profession
Journal Article The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century. By Paul H. Mattingly. (New York: New York University Press, 1975. xxiii + 235 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $15.00.) Get access David Tyack David Tyack Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 1, June 1976, Pages 127–128, https…
Educational Forums of the 1930s
Through an exploration of deliberative forums during the Great Depression, this article considers how Americans have turned to civic education in times of national crisis. The 1930s were a deeply threatening time for democracy, and the forum movement sought to counter revolutionary rhetoric and action with a vision of citizenship based on informed, objective analysis. The many tensions inherent in the forming of citizens—such as critical thinking…
Monuments Between Covers
History textbooks have represented state-approved civic truth. They reveal what adults thought children should learn about the past and are probably the best index of what young Americans did learn in class. History texts have given the past a patriotic gloss, varnishing familiar icons and perpetuating familiar interpretations. Like monuments designed to commemorate and re-present emblematic figures and events, textbooks shaped the public culture…
The "Boy Problem" and the "Woman Question
Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954
Silence and Policy Talk
Three puzzles arise in looking at the history of public education through the lens of gender. Why did some major shifts in gender practices, like the emergence of coeducation in the early 19th century, take place with only minor controversy and in relative silence? Conversely, why did certain kinds of vehement policy talk—for example about the way hard study ruined girls' health or about the way women teachers “feminized” boys—affect practice so …
History and Educational Reform
Robert L. Hampel, William R. Johnson, David N. Plank, Diane Ravitch, David Tyack, Larry Cuban, History and Educational Reform, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 473-502
The History of Education and the Preparation of Teachers. A Reappraisal
Education as Artifact
ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED to you, an English friend wrote Benjamin Franklin, is also connected with the detail of the manners and situation of a rising people; and this respect I do not think that the writings of Caesar and Tacitus can be more interesting to a true judge of human nature and society. (i) Indeed, the story of Franklin's life has mythic sweep and significance. The son of a soap boiler who stood before kings, a runaway apprentice printer…
George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins
Journal Article George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins. By David B. Tyack. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. x + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $6.95.) Get access Irving H. Bartlett Irving H. Bartlett Carnegie-Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 3, December 1967, Pages 651–652, https://doi.org/10.2307/2937444 Publ…
Bureaucracy and the Common School
George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins
George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins
Turning Points in American Educational History
George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins
Turning Points in American Educational History
George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins
Growing up Black
TWO FACTS, I am sure, are evident to all of us. We desperately need an appraisal of the history of education in northern black ghettos, but because of the incredible lack of research on this subject in the past we can only dimly perceive the outlines such a study might take. Consequently, I should like to suggest a few leading questions which might guide this investigation and to indicate some of the sources to which historians might turn for evi…
"Victims Without "Crimes
Robert G. Newby, David B. Tyack, Victims Without "Crimes": Some Historical Perspectives on Black Education, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 40, No. 3, Strategies for Educational Change (Summer, 1971), pp. 192-206
The Tribe and the Common School
The One Best System
The Classless Profession
Journal Article The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century. By Paul H. Mattingly. (New York: New York University Press, 1975. xxiii + 235 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $15.00.) Get access David Tyack David Tyack Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 63, Issue 1, June 1976, Pages 127–128, https…
School and Society in St. Louis
Pilgrim's Progress
THE DEATHS of great men in national and political history are commemorated by song, story and memorial days, Aaron Gove told his fellow school superintendents in 1900. Only in secluded family circles, and midst the personal friends, are the works and lives of heroic schoolmasters recorded and remembered. To this day, historians have largely neglected those who probably did more than any other individuals to shape the day-to-day operation of Ameri…
The Systematization of American Education
The One Best System
The Man Nobody Liked
flattering. In 1880 a writer in Harper's Magazine expressed a common view: purpose of agent ... is to let loose upon truant scholars and nonattendants legal 'dogs of war,' and woe be to hapless urchin who becomes object of his terrible eye. Petitions, complaints, warrants, and commitments are hurled at his devoted head, until he is thrust headlong into Attendance School-a sort of earthly purgatory. In 1918 supervisor of attendance in Milwaukee co…
Politicizing History
Public Education as Nation-Building in America
Current discussions of the effects of urbanization and industrialization on the bureaucratization of American public education in the later 19th century do not offer effective explanations of the expansion of the educational system in the first place. Enrollments were high much earlier than these explanations suggest and were probably higher in rural than in urban settings. We argue that the spread of public education, especially in the North and…
From Social Movement to Professional Management
In this exploratory essay the authors interpret changing forms of leadership in public education by locating them within the context of developing values, institutional structure, and broad social, political, and economic change. They advance two basic propositions. The first is that, during most of the nineteenth century, leadership in public education primarily took the form of guiding a decentralized social movement. In that era, they argue, t…
Reformulating The Purposes of Public Education In An Era of Retrenchment
(1980). Reformulating The Purposes of Public Education In An Era of Retrenchment. Educational Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 49-64
Why Do Women Teach and Men Manage? A Report on Research on Schools
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