The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
by Jal Mehta
Jal Mehta explores the postwar quest to remake American schooling, tracing the tension between ambitious reform visions and disappointing results. The book considers why efforts to create order and lasting change in education have proved so difficult, placing these struggles within the broader history of American political development.
About This Book
The Allure of Order examines the effort to remake American schooling in the postwar era.
Jal Mehta focuses on the high hopes attached to educational reform, as well as the expectations that went unmet.
The book considers the persistent difficulties of bringing order and lasting change to a complex school system.
It offers a study of American education and its place in postwar political development.
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