Introduction
Education and the American democratic concept
Support and control of schools
Problems of education in a changing social order
Society and its teachers
An appraisal of education in America.

Education and the present world order / George F. Zook
Education in a democracy / Harold Benjamin
How may the schools further democracy? / Harold Alberty
Functions of government in educational control / Lee O. Garber and William B. Castetter
Organization of the educational system / Theodore L. Reller
Leadership in education / D. J. Rose
Financing public education / Walter D. Cocking and Edgar L. Morphet
Federal aid for education / William C. Reavis
The significance of accreditation / A. J. Brumbaugh
Social change in the United States / James H. S. Bossard
Population change in the United States / Newton Edwards
The evolving and expanding common school / Edgar W. Knight
Education of the young child / Willard C. Olson
Education of all youth for life adjustment / Harl R. Douglass
New frontiers in higher education / Ordway Tead
Adult education in the United States / Paul L. Essert
Co-ordinating community educational services / Edward G. Olsen
A democratic society needs professional teachers / W. Earl Armstrong
Society's responsibility for teacher welfare / Laurence D. Haskew
The profession looks at itself / T. D. Martin
A citizen looks at his schools / Roy E. Larsen.