State and Schools argues that the American educational model
represents a third way of organizing the provision of schooling,
and that this accounts for some of its strengths as well as some of
its weaknesses. Charles L. Glenn looks closely at the tradition of
democratic localism in the management of schooling, and the
powerful and anti-democratic effect of the emerging education
'profession,' which has in some respects the characteristics of a
religious movement more than of a true profession. A sweeping
chronological survey, State and Schools includes chapters on the
colonial background, schooling in the New Republic, the creation of
an education profession, and the progressive education movement,
among others. Glenn's primary purpose, in this authoritative and
thoroughly researched book, is to illustrate the deep roots of ways
of thinking about schools that have made it difficult for
policy-makers and the public to do what needs to be done to enable
schools to function as they should, for our society and for future
generations.
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