The Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts. By MICHAEL B. KATZ (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. xii+325 pp. $6.95) and Education and the State in Tsarist Russia. By PATRICK L. Alston (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969. ix+322 pp. $8.50)

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-312
Author(s):  
L. R. Veysey ◽  
P. Kenez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The State ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Early School

scholarly journals History for Justice: Michael Katz and the History of Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 760-765
Author(s):  
Leah N. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Early School ◽  
History Of

I recently told one of my graduate students that I was contributing to the panel on which these papers are based, and he replied that reading Michael Katz'sThe Irony of Early School Reform: Educational Innovation in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts(2001a) led him to apply to graduate school. My story is the same. When I was deciding whether to pursue a graduate degree, Katz'sClass, Bureaucracy, and Schools(1975) convinced me to study the history of education. What Katz's scholarship, and later his mentorship, taught me was that one could be a historian with an eye toward justice, that one need not compartmentalize scholarly, political, and ethical commitments.

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