Inexcusable Omissions explores the work of Clarence Karier and his impact on critical scholarship in the history of U.S. education. Twenty authors contribute essays that examine Karier's influence on the study of a wide range of issues central to the field, articulate the theoretical approaches that have guided Karier’s inquiry, and engage the reader in biographical reflection. The essays converge on the complexities of new liberal social and educational theory and the impact that these ideas have had on the development of the American public school system. This is the landscape of the humanity and legacy of Clarence Karier as a historian of democracy's conscience and one of its most committed educators.

The Editors: Karen Graves is Associate Professor of Education at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Her publications include Girls' Schooling during the Progressive Era: From Female Scholar to Domesticated Citizen. Timothy Glander is Associate Professor of Education and Chair of the Department of Education at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of Origins of Mass Communications Research during the American Cold War: Educational Effects and Contemporary Implications. Christine Shea is Associate Professor of Education at East Carolina University. Her publications in social foundations of education include The New Servants of Power: A Critique of the 1980s School Reform Movement.