Contents Acknowledgments ?v Introduction: Of Education Myths and History ?1 David A. Gamson and Sherman Dorn Part I: Origin Myths 1. ?The Myth of the Little Red Schoolhouse ?11 Jonathan Zimmerman 2. ?The Myth of a Purely Religious Motive for Harvard?s Establishment ?20 A. J. Angulo 3. ?The Myth of Summer Vacation and the Agrarian Calendar ?30 Kenneth Gold 4. ?The Myth of Local Control ?42 Campbell F.
Scribner 5. ?The Myth of Industrial-Era Classrooms ?50 Sherman Dorn Part II: MYTHS OF PROGRESS AND DECLINE 6. ?The Myth of Declining Student Behavior ?61 Judith Kafka 7. ?The Myth of Faulty City Schools ?73 John L. Rury 8. ?The Myth of American School Decline ?81 David A. Gamson 9. ?The Myth That U.
S. Schools Were Desegregated in 1954 ?90 Hope C. Rias 10. ?Reframing the Myth of School Reform Failure: Clocking School Change ?98 Larry Cuban Part III: MYTHS ABOUT TEACHERS 11. ?The Myth That Good Teachers Are Born, Not Made ?109 Kate Rousmaniere 12. ?The Myth of Heroic Teachers in Special Education ?118 Neil Dhingra, Joel Miller, and Kristen Chmielewski 13. ?The Myth That Elementary Writing Instruction Is Recent ?127 Joan M. Taylor 14.
?The Myth That Schoolteachers Take the Summer Off ?140 Christine A. Ogren 15. ?The Myth of Harmful Teacher Tenure ?149 Diana D?Amico Pawlewicz Part IV: MYTHS ABOUT INEVITABILITY 16. ?The Du Bois?Washington Myth of Black Male Educational Thinkers ?161 Dellyssa Edinboro 17. ?The Myth of Gender Dominance in Higher Education ?169 Linda Eisenmann 18. ?The Myth of the Asian American Model Minority, American Individualism, and Meritocracy ?178 Sharon S. Lee and Yoon K. Pak Part V: MYTH-ING VOICES AND QUESTIONS 19.
?The Myth of De Facto Segregation ?191 Ansley T. Erickson and Andrew R. Highsmith 20. ?The Myth That Technology Will Modernize Teaching ?204 Victoria Cain 21. ?The Myth That School Spending Doesn?t Affect Student Outcomes ?213 Matthew Gardner Kelly 22. ?The Myth That Preschool Education Is a Panacea ?223 Barbara Beatty 23. ?The Myth of Patriotic Education as a Unifying Force ?232 Cody Dodge Ewert About the Editors and the Contributors ?239 Index ?243.