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.
