Table of Contents

Preface: Metaphor and Myth The Sanctity of the Schoolhouse Postwar Innocence (1945) Juvenile Delinquency and the Schools (1950-1969) Fire Bell in the Schoolyard (1945-1992) The Encroachment of an Old Catastrophe (1945-1992) Civil Rights, Uncivil Schools (1954-1969) The Demise of Discipline (1959-1969) A Decadent Counterculture (1970-2001) Terror Comes to School (1970-1992) The Paradox of the Clinton Era (1993-2001) Postscript: Forging a New Paradigm Index

About the Author

Rollin J. Watson has held a number of teaching and administrative posts in higher education and served as president of two colleges. In 1999, after eleven years as president of Somerset Community College in Kentucky, he retired to teach and write full-time. Robert S. Watson is a retired school superintendent and F.B.I. agent. He has co-written Containing Crisis, which grew out of the 1988 school shooting in Greenwood, S.C., where he was then superintendent of schools.