David B. Tyack (November 17, 1930 – October 27, 2016) was the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of History, Emeritus at the
Stanford Graduate School of Education.[1][2] Tyack is known for his wide-ranging studies and interpretations of the history of
American education.
Tyack examined late 19th century reform movements in
New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco and Chicago. He concluded that, "What the structural reformers wanted to do, then, was to replace a rather mechanical form of public bureaucracy, which was permeated with 'illegitimate' lay influence, with a streamlined 'professional' bureaucracy in which lay control was carefully filtered through a corporate
school board."[4]
Tyack, David B. Seeking common ground: Public schools in a diverse society (
Harvard University Press, 2003).
Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban. Tinkering toward utopia (Harvard University Press, 1995).
online
Tyack, David, and Elizabeth Hansot. Learning Together: A History of
Coeducation in American Public Schools: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools (
Russell Sage Foundation, 1992).
Tyack, David, Thomas James, and
Aaron Benavot. Law and the shaping of public education, 1785-1954 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991).
Tyack, David, and Robert Lowe. "The constitutional moment:
Reconstruction and Black education in the South." American Journal of Education (1986): 236-256.
in JSTOR
Tyack, David B., Robert Lowe, and Elisabeth Hansot. Public schools in hard times: The
Great Depression and recent years (Harvard University Press, 1984).
Kantor, Harvey, and David Tyack, eds. Work, youth, and schooling: Historical perspectives on
vocationalism in American education (Stanford University Press, 1982).
Tyack, David, and Elisabeth Hansot. "Conflict and consensus in American public education." Daedalus (1981): 1-25.
in JSTOR
Strober, Myra H., and David Tyack. "Why do women teach and men manage? A report on research on schools." Signs 5#3 (1980): 494-503.
in JSTOR
Meyer, John W., David Tyack, Joane Nagel and Audri Gordon. "Public Education as Nation-Building in America: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930," American Journal of Sociology 85#3 (1979), pp. 591–613
in JSTOR
"The spread of public schooling in Victorian America: In search of a reinterpretation." History of Education 7#3 (1978): 173-182.
"Ways of seeing: An essay on the history of compulsory schooling." Harvard Educational Review 46#3 (1976): 355-389.
The one best system: A history of American urban education (Harvard University Press, 1974).
"The tribe and the common school: Community control in rural education." American Quarterly 24.1 (1972): 3-19.
in JSTOR
"The perils of
pluralism: The background of the Pierce case." American Historical Review (1968): 74-98.
in JSTOR
George Ticknor and the
Boston Brahmins (Harvard University Press, 1967)
"The Kingdom of God and the common school: Protestant ministers and the educational awakening in the West." Harvard Educational Review 36.4 (1966): 447-469.