Oral history interview with David Tyack, 1985.

Biographical Note

Educator.

Scope and Contents

Development of interest in history of education at Harvard; studies funded by the Spencer Foundation concerning law shaping the public schools; issues in the educational system suchas racial and gender inequalities, religion, and patriotism; approach as a political and social historian.

Subjects

• Education--Research.
• Historians--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Kranz, Bella, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Public schools.
• Spencer Foundation.
• Tyack, David B.--Interviews.
• United States--Social conditions.