David Tyack

10.0k citations
89 papers · 6.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

  • Education top 0.1%
    • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
    • School Choice and Performance
    • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
    • Parental Involvement in Education
    • Educational Assessment and Improvement

Papers in

    • Diverse Education Studies and Reforms 23
    • School Choice and Performance 12
    • Historical Education Studies Worldwide 12
    • Education Systems and Policy 7
    • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies 4
    • American Constitutional Law and Politics 9

David Tyack

84 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. 1996 · 1.4k citations
1.4k19742026199120084008001.2k

Peers

David Tyack
Comparison fields: 5 of 114
  • Education 4.3k
  • Information Systems and Management 576
  • Public Administration 200
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.8k
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics 97
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Tyack, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform.
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19961367
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The One Best System
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1974777
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The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education
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1976773
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The “Grammar” of Schooling: Why Has it Been so Hard to Change?
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1994553
5 1983249
6 1982224
7 2009171
8 1975154
9 1979140
10 2001124
11 197693
12 199792
13 199492
14 199284
15 198081
16 199062
17 196859
18 199159
19 199053
20 198950

About David Tyack

David Tyack is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Gender Studies, having authored 89 papers that have together received 6.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (23 papers), School Choice and Performance (12 papers), Historical Education Studies Worldwide (12 papers), Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (11 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (9 papers), Education Systems and Policy (7 papers), Race, History, and American Society (4 papers) and Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Education (4.3k citations), Information Systems and Management (576 citations), Public Administration (200 citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.8k citations) and Human Factors and Ergonomics (97 citations). David Tyack has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as History of Education Quarterly, Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education, The American Historical Review, Harvard Educational Review and Journal of American History.

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