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At a time when higher education attendance has never felt more mandatory for career success and economic growth, this collection ask readers to consider the civic mission of higher education as equally vital to the nation's well-being and answers question such as: Should higher education serve a greater public interest, and in what ways should colleges and universities be asked to participate in public controversies?

At a time when higher education attendance has never felt more mandatory for career success and economic growth, the distinguished contributors to this provocative collection ask readers to consider the civic mission of higher education as equally vital to the nations well-being. Should higher education serve a greater public interest? In what ways should colleges and universities be asked to participate in public controversies? What should we...

Lagemann's concern is education--not in the limited sense of going to college, but education as a lifelong "process of interaction that changes the self." The relationships Lagemann shows between education and individual achievement and between education and social change create a new understanding of feminism and progressivism in the early twentieth century.

Foundations are socially and politically significant, but thissimple fact... has mostly been ignored by students of American history.... Thiscollection represents an important contribution to an emerging field." --Kenneth Prewitt, Social Science Research Council

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. "An Elusive Science" explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

The Carnegie Corporation, among this country's oldest and most important foundations, has underwritten projects ranging from the writings of David Riesman to Sesame Street. Lagemann's lively history focuses on how foundations quietly but effectively use power and private money to influence public policies.

Sponsored by the National Academy of Education's Commission on the Improvement of Education Research It has been a decade since the National Academy of Education last issued a review of education research. This new volume arrives at a critical time for our nation's schools. More than twenty prominent scholars provide an overview of the tensions, dilemmas, issues, and possibilities that currently characterize education research. They examine th...