The Irony of Early School Reform, 2nd Edition Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Introduction - 2001 Edition
	Introduction: Educational Reform: The Cloud of Sentiment and Historiography	1
Pt. I	Reform by Imposition: Social Origins of Educational Controversy	19
1	The Abolition of Beverly High School	19
2	Educational Promoters and the High School	27
3	Local Opposition to Reform	50
4	Lawrence: From Model Town to Primary School of Vice	93
Pt. II	The Uses of Pedagogy: Teachers and the Educational Process	115
1	The Heresy of Cyrus Peirce	115
2	Society's Hot Stimulus of Action and the Necessity of Restraint	117
3	The True Idea of Education	124
4	A New Motive to Moral Excellence vs. Emulation	131
5	God's Gardener: Strategies of Teacher Mobility	153
Pt. III	Compulsory Education and the Urban Delinquent: The State Reform School	163
1	Reformers Against the Reform School	163
2	Delinquency and the Grading of Prisons	164
3	From Favorable Impressions to Imperfection of the Stock: The Theory of Crime and Poverty	170
4	At Once a Home and a School	185
5	The Results of Reform	202
	Conclusion: Educational Reform: Myths and Limits	213
App. A	Massachusetts Social, Economic, and Educational Statistics	221
App. B	Communities and Education: An Analysis of Variance	225
App. C	Social Composition of High School Enrollment	270
App. D	Beverly: Analysis of the 1860 Vote on the High School Issue	272
	Bibliographical Note	283
	Notes	288
	Index	321