Foreword / Clarence J. Karier
Introduction / Robert B. Everhart
Growing up blighted : reflections on the "secret power" in the American experience / Charles Burgess
The evolving political structure of American schooling / Joel Spring
Nineteenth-century opponents of state education : prophets of modern revisionism / George H. Smith
Schooling for work and working at school : perspectives on immigrant and working-class education in urban America, 1880-1920 / C.H. Edison
Critical literacy : a conception of education as a moral right and a social ideal / Michael S. Katz
The manipulation of consciousness : a first amendment critique of schooling / Stephen Arons and Charles Lawrence
A comparative and international perspective on the prospects for family and community control of schooling / Thomas J. La Belle
Changing political patterns and governmental regulations / Laurence Iannaccone


Institutional parameters and the purposes of schooling / Robert B. Everhart
The prospects for education vouchers : an economic analysis / E.G. West
Disturbing evidence about the "one best system" / Donald A. Erickson
The impact of taxation policy on public and private schools / Thomas W. Vitullo-Martin
Educational tax credits / Roger A. Freeman
Education and cultural reproduction : a critical reassessment of programs for choice / Michael W. Apple
Conclusion / Robert B. Everhart.