''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 The history of education in the United States covers the trends in formal education in America from the 17th century to the early 21st century. Colonial era Schooling was a high priority in Puritan New England, which set up strong systems, e ...

between 1800 and 1885 in public

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

s, and follows their transition from

one-room school One-room schoolhouses, or One-room schools, have been commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, and Spa ...

s to centralized, bureaucratic school systems.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. . The book was revised and expanded in 1975.

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

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