Notes
- See particularly Ellwood P. Cubberley , Public Education in the United States ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. , 1919 ) and Freeman Butts, Public Education in the United States (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., 1978).
- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis , Schooling in Capitalistic America ( New York : Basic Books , 1976 ), pp. 225 – 31
- Michael B. Katz , The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts ( Boston : Beacon Press , 1968 ), pp. 53 – 84
- Michael B. Katz , Class Bureaucracy and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America ( New York : Praeger Publishers , 1975 ), p. xvii .
- Ibid.
- Clarence J. Karier , Paul Violas and Joel Spring , Roots of Crisis: American Education in the Twentieth Century ( New York : Rand McNally & Co. , 1973 ), p. 5 .
- Ibid. , p. 231 .
- Colin Greer , The Great School Legend: A Revisionist Interpretation of American Education ( New York : Viking Press , 1972 ), p. 105 .
- Ibid. , p. xii. The dominant class has never considered schooling or capitalism itself as finely tuned instruments of manipulation. Therefore some individuals have defied the odds and have accumulated wealth or social status (Bowles and Gintis, Schooling in Capitalistic America , p. 12 ).
- Ibid. , pp. 3 – 4
- Bowles and Gintis , Schooling in Capitalistic America , p. 14 .
- Diane Ravitch , The Revisionists Revised: A Critique of the Radical Attack on Schools ( New York : Basic Books , 1978 ), p. 131 . For other criticisms, see also Michael R. Olneck and David B. Bills, “What Makes Sammy Run: An Empirical Assessment of the Bowles-Gintis Correspondence Theory,” American Journal of Education 89 (November 1980): 27–49 and Shawn A. Davis and Emil J. Haller, “Tracking, Ability, and SES: Further Evidence on the ‘Revisionist-Meritocratic Debate,’” American Journal of Education 89 (May 1981): 283–305.
- The 1975 Yearbook of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development was devoted to the “assertion that the schools serve to legitimize the present social structure.” Although Michael Katz was cited, no attempt was made to analyze or synthesize revisionism, (see James B. Macdonald and Esther Zaret , eds., Schools in Search of Meaning ( Washington , D.C. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , 1975 .)
- Lawrence A. Cremin , The Transformation of the School ( New York : Vintage Books , 1964 ), pp. 328 – 53
- Forrest E. Keesbury , “Radical Education: What Went Wrong,” Peabody Journal of Education 58 ( July 1981 ): 213 – 17
- Merle L. Borrowman , The Liberal and Technical in Teacher Education: A Historical Survey of American Thought (New York: Teachers College , Columbia University, 1956 ), pp. 23 – 34
- Ibid. , p. 20 .
- James Johnson , Harold W. Collins , Victor L. Dupuis , and John J. Johansen , Introduction to the Foundations of American Education ( Rockleigh , N.J. : Allyn and Bacon , 1979 ), p. 302 .
- C. M. Charles , David K. Gast , Richard Sewey and Houston M. Burnside , Schooling, Teaching, and Learning ( St. Louis : C.V. Mosby Co. , 1978 ), p. 27 .
- Thomas E. Jordan , America's Children: An Introduction to Education ( Chicago : Scott, Foresman & Co. , 1973 ), p. 363 .
- William Van Til , Education: A Beginning ( Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1970 ), p. 142 .
- Charles R. Kniker and Natalie Naylor , Teaching Today and Tomorrow ( Columbus : Charles E. Merrill , 1981 ), p. 185 .
- James M. Hughes and Frederick M. Schultz , Education in America ( New York : Harper and Row , 1976 ), pp. 219 – 20
- Arthur K. Ellis , John J. Cogan , and Kenneth R. Howey , Introduction to the Foundations of Education ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. : Prentice-Hall , 1981 ).
- Geraldine Clifford , The Shape of American Education ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. : Prentice-Hall , 1975 ), p. 165 .
- Robert J. Nash , David Shiman and David R. Conrad , “Can the Foundations of Education Survive? Grappling with our Death Wish,” Journal of Teacher Education 28 (January-February 1977 ): 4 – 6
- Alexander Rippa , “Book Review of Shaping the American Educational State: 1900 to the Present,” Journal of Teacher Education 26 ( Fall 1975 ): 279 .
- William Proefriedt , “Socialist Criticisms of Education in the United States: Problems and Possibilities,” The Harvard Educational Review 50 ( November 1980 ): 467 .
- Constance Horner , “Debunking the Educational Debunkers,” Wall Street Journal , June 23, 1978 , p. 10 .
- H. I. Marrou , A History of Education in Antiquity ( New York : Mentor Books , 1964 ), p. xi .
- Joel Spring , Educating the Worker Citizen ( New York : Longman , 1980 ), p. 93 .