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Public Education Under SiegeEdited by Michael B. Katz and Mike Rose"[A]n outstanding book . . . full of riches."--Daily Kos"Most of the fire in the national debate over school reform has come from those in favor of high-stakes testing of students, charter schools, and weakening of teachers' unions--until now. The very timely essays in Public Education Under Siege challenge the assumptions and goals of the so-called school reform movement. If y...

Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his many books is The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

The Undeserving Poor is a history of the ideas that underlie America's enduring confrontation with poverty. The book shows that poverty remains a national disgrace in part because of the way we define and think about it - which, in turn, shapes the energy we put, or don't put, into its eradication.

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Public Education Under SiegeEdited by Michael B. Katz and Mike Rose"An outstanding book . . . full of riches."--Daily Kos"The book's analyses of what are the limits and dangers of our current fascination with markets, testing, blaming and shaming teachers, anti-union sentiment, and similar things are powerfully stated. But just as importantly in terms of the role of 'public intellectual' efforts, they are refreshingly free of the kinds of over...

There is unanimity among these historians and sociologists in ascribing seminal importance to The Philadelphia Negro."--David Levering Lewis, Journal of American History"A splendid collection of essays."--Times Literary SupplementIn 1896 W. E. B. Du Bois began research that resulted three years later in the publication of his great classic of urban sociology and history, The Philadelphia Negro. Today, a group of the nation's leading historians...

The essays in An Irrational Imp distill the insight, empathy, and wisdom of the author's long and productive life. The memories they convey range from her early twentieth-century youth in an immigrant working-class family in Boston to observations on graffiti in a women's restroom at Harvard near the century's close. They paint unforgettable images of an immigrant neighborhood, recall the tensions that etched emotional scars in a close but con...

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This updated edition of Michael B. Katz's seminal work, "The Price of Citizenship, " traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs through the war on poverty and into our own age. It argues that in the last decades America has been propelled toward a future of increased inequality and decreased security.

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