AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reform and Change in the American Curriculum11Constructing the Concept of Curriculum on the Wisconsin Frontier: How School Restructuring Sustained a Pedagogical Revolution72"That Evil Genius of the Negro Race": Thomas Jesse Jones and Educational Reform243The Cardinal Principles Report as Archaeological Deposit394A Century of Growing Antagonism in High School-College Relations505Harold Rugg and the Reconstruction of the Social Studies Curriculum: The Treatment of the "Great War" in His Textbook Series616Fads, Fashions, and Rituals: The Instability of Curriculum Change767Cultural Literacy, or The Curate's Egg918One Kind of Excellence: Ensuring Academic Achievement at La Salle High School1079Success and Failure in Educational Reform: Are There Historical "Lessons"?126Notes139Index153About the Authors163