This widely acclaimed study of political power in a metropolitan community portrays the political system in its entirety and in balance—and retains much of the drama, the excitement, and the special style of New York City. It discusses the stakes and rules of the city's politics, and the individuals, groups, and official agencies influencing government action.

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.

Volume contains: need index past index 6 (Amsden v. Roeder) need index past index 6 (Backus v. Parsons) need index past index 6 (Baylis v. Wood) need index past index 6 (Boser v. Moss) need index past index 6 (Bradley v. Bd. of Ed. of the City of Oneonta) need index past index 6 (Broderick v. Aaron) need index past index 6 (Cabana v. Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co.) need index past index 6 (Cerasole v. Egenberger) need index past index 6 (Christansen v. United Auto Delivery) need index past index 6 (Ciaccia v. Board of Education) need index past index 6 (Clarke v. Naugle) need index past index 6 (Euto v. (American) Lumbermens Mut. Casualty Co.) need index past index 6 (Fritz v. Chertok) need index past index 6 (Gaughran v. Keenan) need index past index 6 (General Motors Java Handel Maatschappij v. Erie R.R. Co.) need index past index 6 (Genesee Valley Nat'l Bank & Trust Co. of Geneseo v. Collister) need index past index 6 (Glens Falls Indem Co. v. Tiffany Prod. Co., Inc.) need index past index 6 (Gleason v. N.Y. Central R.R. Co.) need index past index 6 (Goldstein v. East Side Metal Spinning & Stamping Corp.)

In The Qualified Student Harold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically, he discusses the way that college and university reformers employed those methods to introduce higher education into a broader cross-section of America, by extending access to an increased number of students from nontraditional backgrounds. Implicit in much of this book is an underlying social and ethical question: How legitimate was and is higher education's regulation of social mobility? Public concern over colleges' and universities' practices became inevitable once they became regulators between social classes. The challenging of colleges' admissions policies in the courts augments similar concerns that have been present in legislatures for decades. The volume is divided into three main sections: Prerequisites, Columbia and the Selective Function, and Implications. It focuses mainly on four universities, The University of Michigan, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. Wechsler maintains that unlike other universities, these institutions were pacesetters; they did not adopt a new policy simply because some other college had already adopted it. A new introduction brings the book, originally published in 1977, up to date and demonstrates its continuing importance in today's academic world of selective admissions.