From the Book - First edition.
"Missionary teachers": The common schools movement and the feminization of American teaching
"Repressed indignation": The feminist challenge to American education
"No shirking, no skulking": Black teachers and racial uplift after the Civil War
"School ma'ams as lobbyists": The birth of teachers unions and the battle between progressive pedagogy and school efficiency
"An orgy of investigation": Witch hunts and social movement unionism during the wars
"The only valid passport from poverty": The great expectations of Great Society teachers
"We both got militant": Union teachers versus Black Power during the era of community control
"Very disillusioned": How teacher accountability displaced desegregation and local control
"Big, measurable goals": A data-driven vision for millennial teaching
"Let me use what I know": Reforming education by empowering teachers
Epilogue: Lessons from history for improving teaching today.
