Keep the Schools out of Politics: the Politics of Education
§In attempting to protect their power, administrative progressives established alliances with business elites.
Both groups advocated scientific
management and hierarchical control (p.
318)
§Schools were being blamed for America's difficulties in international competition with Japan and West Germany (p.318)
§Teachers believed their major hope for obtaining decent wages and working conditions was unionism and joining forces with organized labor. These struggles
pitted teachers against admission (p. 318)