Law and the shaping of public education, 1785-1954

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PART I: Building Common Schools in a Nation of Republics

PROLOGUE: Exploring the "Primeval Forest"

Federal Influence on the Spread of Public Education, 1785-1912

Education as a Fourth Branch of State Government: Nineteenth Century

Law and State School Policy: Case Studies of Michigan and California, 1835-1900

Law and the Bureaucratization of Public Schools: Twentieth Century

PART II: Majority Rule and Minority Rights in School Law

PROLOGUE: The Many Faces of Power

The Constitutional Moment: Reconstruction and Black Education in the South, 1867-1954

Moral Majorities and the School Curriculum: Making Virtue Mandatory, 1880-1930

Compulsory Public Schooling and the Perils of Pluralism: The Case of Oregon, 1922