Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History at Binghamton University (State University of New York). He is the author of several books, including The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education, and the forthcoming Mr. Lancaster’s System: The Failed Reform that Created America’s Public Schools.
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