In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers’ professional legitimacy. Policymakers and school leaders understood teacher professionalization initiatives as efficient ways to bolster the bureaucratic order of the schools rather than as means to amplify teachers’ authority and credibility.

DIANA D'AMICO PAWLEWICZ is a historian of education reform and social policy and an assistant professor in Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks supported by the Elnora Hopper Danley Professorship.

Contents
Introduction
1          “A Chaotic State”: The Rise of Municipal Public School Systems and the
 Institutionalization of Teaching
2          To “Raise Teachers’ Profession to a Dignity Worthy of its Mission”: The Development
of the Modern School Bureaucracy and Tenure Policies During the Progressive Era
3          Teacher Education and the “National Welfare”: Professional Preparation, Character, and
Class During the Great DepressionContents
Introduction
1          “A Chaotic State”: The Rise of Municipal Public School Systems and the Institutionalization of Teaching
2          To “Raise Teachers’ Profession to a Dignity Worthy of its Mission”: The Development of the Modern School Bureaucracy and Tenure Policies During the Progressive Era
3          Teacher Education and the “National Welfare”: Professional Preparation, Character, and Class during the Great Depression
4          “The Enlistment of Better People”: Responses to the Teacher Shortages of the Post World War II Years
5          “A Brave New Breed”: Teacher Power and Isolation, 1960 - 1980
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index