Important New Education Titles
compiled by Michelle Accorso

Merrifield explains why school voucher programs in Milwaukee, Cleveland and Florida are flawed. On the contrary, he writes that California’s defeat of Proposition 38 and former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson’s school voucher legislation proposal are models to champion based upon the Independent Institute’s most recent findings.

Given the current public school funding crisis, Merrifield’s call to radically and permanently improve the educational prospects of America’s children by liberalizing the market for educational entrepreneurs—a reform engine that doesn’t raise taxes—is more timely than ever.

The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts second edition by Michael B. Katz

First published in 1968, this book quickly became essential reading for anyone interested in American education. One of the first books to survey the relationship between public educational systems and the rise of urbanization and industrialization, Irony was instrumental in mapping out the origins of school reform and locating the source of educational inequalities and bureaucracies in patterns established in the nineteenth century. This new and enhanced version of the classic text is now available for the legions of people who have asked for it. It includes an update by the author along with the same cohesive text and criticism contained in the original.

A standard in the field, this work will continue to inspire scholars and reformers with its indispensable information and comprehensive analysis.

Michael B. Katz is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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