- Neal Gross , Who Runs Our Schools? ( New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 1958 ), p. 125 . Keith Goldhammer, The School Board (New York: The Center for Applied Research in Education, Inc., 1964), p. 36.
- Stanley E. Ballinger , The Nature and Function of Educational Policy ( Bloomington , Indiana : The Center for the Study of Educational Policy, Indiana University , 1965 ), p. 4 .
- Gross, op. cit., p. 139. Also see Norman D. Kerr, “The School Board as an Agency of Legitimation,” Sociology of Education (Fall, 1964) Vol. 38, p. 35. Henry M. Brickell, Organizing New York State For Educational Change, (Albany: New York State Department of Education, 1961), pp. 20–24.
- “The Educational Establishment,” Phi Delta Kaffa ( December , 1964 ), Vol. 46 , pp. 190 – 194 .
- Stanley Elam , “California's Legislature Bypasses the Schoolmen,” Phi Delta Kappa ( January , 1965 ), Vol. 46 , pp. 209 – 210 . The claim that it would be undemocratic for educators to make decisions on technical questions incorrectly identifies democracy with the absence of expertness and overlooks accepted practices in medicine and law where practitioners have been granted authority in technical matters and the public has retained authority over relevant value matters. See Myron Lieberman, Education As A Profession (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956), pp. 87–90.
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Volume 30, 1966 - Issue 4