David Tyack

10.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
89 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

David Tyack is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, David Tyack has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Education, 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in David Tyack's work include Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (23 papers), Historical Education Studies Worldwide (12 papers) and School Choice and Performance (12 papers). David Tyack is often cited by papers focused on Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (23 papers), Historical Education Studies Worldwide (12 papers) and School Choice and Performance (12 papers). David Tyack collaborates with scholars based in United States. David Tyack's co-authors include Larry Cuban, Paul H. Mattingly, William A. Tobin, Elisabeth Hansot, Laurence Veysey, Henry M. Levin, William Tobin, Sarah N. Deschenes, Myra H. Strober and John W. Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

David Tyack

84 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public Schoo... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1996 1974 1976 1994 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Tyack United States 26 4.3k 1.8k 903 576 310 89 6.0k
Meg Maguire United Kingdom 32 3.8k 0.9× 2.1k 1.2× 1.7k 1.9× 425 0.7× 220 0.7× 107 5.3k
Geoff Whitty United Kingdom 37 4.4k 1.0× 2.4k 1.3× 1.9k 2.1× 252 0.4× 206 0.7× 166 6.0k
Thomas S. Popkewitz United States 37 4.1k 0.9× 2.3k 1.2× 1.9k 2.1× 232 0.4× 221 0.7× 215 5.5k
Ernest Q. Campbell United States 16 4.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 438 0.5× 372 0.6× 321 1.0× 43 5.6k
Robert L. York United States 10 4.0k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 381 0.4× 362 0.6× 373 1.2× 23 5.2k
Jeannie Oakes United States 38 5.9k 1.4× 1.9k 1.0× 387 0.4× 381 0.7× 594 1.9× 104 7.1k
John C. Smart United States 39 3.7k 0.9× 784 0.4× 876 1.0× 139 0.2× 180 0.6× 140 5.6k
Ivor Goodson United Kingdom 39 4.2k 1.0× 1.9k 1.0× 786 0.9× 233 0.4× 446 1.4× 167 5.7k
Helen Gunter United Kingdom 33 2.7k 0.6× 852 0.5× 903 1.0× 392 0.7× 301 1.0× 195 3.3k
Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin United States 39 5.7k 1.3× 1.2k 0.7× 492 0.5× 1.2k 2.1× 863 2.8× 115 7.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Tyack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tyack

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Tyack. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Tyack based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Tyack. David Tyack is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Tyack, David & Larry Cuban. (2009). Tinkering toward Utopia. Harvard University Press eBooks. 171 indexed citations
2.
Tyack, David. (1997). Civic Education--What Roles for Citizens?.. Educational leadership. 54(5). 22–24. 9 indexed citations
3.
Tyack, David & Larry Cuban. (1997). Tinkering toward Utopia. Harvard University Press eBooks. 92 indexed citations
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Mattingly, Paul H., David Tyack, & Larry Cuban. (1996). Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform.. Journal of American History. 83(1). 295–295. 1367 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tyack, David. (1992). Can We Build a System of Choice That Is Not Just a "Sorting Machine" or a Market-Based "Free-for-All"?.. 9(1). 13–17. 9 indexed citations
6.
Welter, Rush, David Tyack, Thomas A. James, & Aaron Benavot. (1988). Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954. History of Education Quarterly. 28(1). 107–107. 16 indexed citations
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Hansot, Elisabeth & David Tyack. (1988). Gender in American Public Schools: Thinking Institutionally. Signs. 13(4). 741–760. 25 indexed citations
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Vinovskis, Maris A. & David Tyack. (1988). Law and the Shaping of Public Education, 1785-1954. The American Historical Review. 93(4). 1104–1104. 5 indexed citations
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James, T. & David Tyack. (1983). Learning from Past Efforts to Reform the High School.. Phi Delta Kappan. 64(6). 21 indexed citations
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Tyack, David & Elisabeth Hansot. (1981). Conflict and Consensus in American Public Education.. Daedalus. 110(3). 1–25. 22 indexed citations
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Tyack, David & Myra H. Strober. (1981). Women and Men in the Schools: A History of the Sexual Structuring of Educational Employment.. 18(11). 2 indexed citations
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Tyack, David, et al.. (1979). Work, Youth and Schooling: Historical Perspectives on Vocational Education.. 5 indexed citations
13.
Tyack, David. (1978). The Spread of Public Schooling in Victorian America: In Search of a Reinterpretation. History of Education. 7(3). 173–182. 8 indexed citations
14.
Tyack, David, et al.. (1976). The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. The New England Quarterly. 49(1). 155–155. 773 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tyack, David & Paul H. Mattingly. (1976). The Classless Profession: American Schoolmen in the Nineteenth Century. Journal of American History. 63(1). 127–127. 12 indexed citations
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Tyack, David. (1975). Some Models for Interpreting the History of Compulsory Schooling.. 1 indexed citations
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Veysey, Laurence & David Tyack. (1975). The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education. Journal of American History. 62(2). 442–442. 154 indexed citations
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Tyack, David. (1974). The One Best System. Harvard University Press eBooks. 27 indexed citations
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Tyack, David. (1974). The One Best System. Harvard University Press eBooks. 777 indexed citations breakdown →
20.
Tyack, David. (1969). Nobody knows : Black Americans in the twentieth century. Macmillan eBooks.

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