Preface: Metaphor and Myth -- The Sanctity of the Schoolhouse -- Postwar Innocence (1945-1950) -- Juvenile Delinquency and the Schools (1950-1975) -- 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 (1945-1992) -- The Paradox of the Clinton Era (1993-2001) -- Postscript: Forging a New Paradigm.