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Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America is a 1971 book by American historian Michael B. Katz. The book focuses on the history of education in the United States between 1800 and 1885 in public elementary schools, and follows their transition from one-room schools to centralized, bureaucratic school systems. The book was revised and expanded in 1975.

Publication history

• Class, Bureaucracy and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America, Praeger (New York City), 1971, revised edition, 1975.

See also

• Education reform

References

1. Lazerson, M. (1973). Class, Bureaucracy and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America. Harvard Educational Review.
2. Suzuki, Bob H. (1998). Education and the Socialization of Asian Americans: A Revisionist Analysis of the'Model Minority' Thesis. In Franklin Ng (Ed.), Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics, pp. 41-69, Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0815326890.

Further reading

• Michaelsen, Jacob B. (1977). Revision, Bureaucracy, and School Reform: A Critique of Katz. The School Review. 85(2): 229–246. JSTOR 1084622
• Wise, Arthur E. (1982). Legislated Learning: The Bureaucratization of the American Classroom. University of California Press. ISBN 0520047923.

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