
Ray Rist uses his skills as a participant-observer in the classroom to make us understand the first few years of school experience of one group of children. One of the traditional sources of American pride has always been the upward mobility afforded its citizens through mass...

Americans worry continually about their schools with frequent discussions of the "crisis" in American education, of the "failures" of the public school systems, and of the inability of schools to meet the current challenges of contemporary life