Veysey, Laurence. “The History of Education,” Reviews in American History 10 (1982), 281-291.

Summary
Laurence Veysey's article examines the historiographical trends in the field of history of education up to the 1980s. According to Veysey, writings on the history of American education were largely in the model of a “triumphal, unexamined progressivism” until the 1950s and early 1960s. Called the “Cubberly tradition” after Elwood P. Cubberly, the dean of the School of Education at Stanford, History of Education was largely written by educators, rather than historians. Bernard Bailyn’s Education in the Forming of American Society (1960) led to a stinging critique of education research and pushed scholarship away from a whiggist/progressive history. The movements of the 1960s further transformed the History of Education and, like other history subfields, made a “social” turn in scholarship. In particular to public school history, debates emerged between those that sympathized with the “middle class” bureaucrats” (E.g. Diane Ravitch) and others who 'emphasized the effect of the public school systems on different ethnic, class, and racial communities'. In Higher Education, most scholarship attempts to find a balance between intellectual history of disciplines  and the institutions’ relationship to society and its effect on the institutions' social development.