Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Bureaucratizing the Child: The Manufacture of Adults in the Modern World

Chapter 3 American Mass Public Education and the Modern World

Chapter 4 Bureaucratized Childhood and the Persistence of Schooling Systems: Irrationality in Rationality

Chapter 5 Behaviorism, Developmentalism, and Bureaucracy: Leaky First Graders, Defiant Teenagers, Jocks, Nerds, and the Business Model

Chapter 6 The Sorting Function of Schools: Institutionalized Privilege and Why Harvard Is a Social Problem for Both the Middle Class and Public School 65 in the Bronx

Chapter 7 Teachers, Parents, and the Teaching Profession: The Miracle of Bureaucratized Love

Chapter 8 The Child Savers

Chapter 9 Seeing Like a State: Efficiency, Calculability, Predictivity, Control, Testing Regimes, and School Administration

Chapter 10 The Limits of the Modern American School: Rock, Paper, Scissors (Equality, Individualism, Utilitarianism)

Chapter 12 Why School Reform Will Always Be with Us: Emotion and Rationalization

Chapter 13 From Spoiled Blueberries to Classical Social Theory