| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education. By William W. Cutler III. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xiv, 290 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-226-13216-1.)

In the ongoing school debates that preoccupy policy makers, both parents and teachers have been blamed for poor educational outcomes, with teachers the more common target of recent attacks. While it is widely recognized that both teachers and parents have responsibility for children's education, the two groups have often differed about what is best for children and what their respective responsibilities are. In this timely book, William W. Cutler III helps to contextualize these conversations by providing an in-depth account of the collaborations of teachers and parents during the last two centuries. Beginning with the Female Common School Association, established in Kensington, Connecticut, in 1841, to the more combative Parents Union for Public Schools in Philadelphia, which emerged from the political turmoil of the early 1970s, Cutler has delineated the ways in which parents have tried to influence educational policy making in tandem with, and sometimes in opposition to, professional educators. . . .

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