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William J. Reese is a professor of educational policy studies, history, and European studies at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.

William J. Reese's history of public schools in America examines why citizens have repeatedly turned to the schools to improve society and how successive generations of reformers have tried to alter the curriculum and teaching practice to achieve their goals.