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William Frantz Public School: A Story of Race, Resistance, Resiliency, and Recovery in New Orleans provides an examination of education in New Orleans and its intersections with race, resiliency, resistance, and recovery.
Coordinate Colleges for American Women explores the history of coordinate colleges-a separate school of higher learning for women connected to an older, all-male institution. Using examples in the Midwest and New York, the author shows they were created to meet the founding institution's converging interests-not to improve the education of women.
Laboratory of Learning illuminates the strategies, challenges, and successes of providing secondary education to Southern Black citizens during the Jim Crow era and provides evidence that HBCU laboratory schools and Lab High should be added to our histories as an example of distinctive, progressive schooling.
Eighth Sister No More
A leader in twentieth-century education, Henry Chauncey (1905-2002) introduced large-scale assessment into the lives of individual Americans. This biography provides insight into the multidisciplinary factors that shaped the social enterprise of American education.
Explores the battle to desegregate public school teachers in the South. This book demonstrates that the legal struggle to desegregate teachers and other school personnel is critical to understanding the politics of school desegregation in the South and perhaps elsewhere.
A History of Elementary Social Studies: Romance and Reality recounts the history of elementary social studies in the United States, beginning with its mid-nineteenth century antecedents. The book reflects on the global and national issues that influenced the origins and development of elementary social studies.
This book describes the emergence of a varied collection of higher education institutionsing New York's Capital District, the cities of Albany, Troy, and Schenectady, primarily during the period from 1790 to the 1850s.
The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new perspective on the American school district.
The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new perspective on the American school district.
This book describes the emergence of a varied collection of higher education institutionsing New York's Capital District, the cities of Albany, Troy, and Schenectady, primarily during the period from 1790 to the 1850s.
The second edition of "Schools of Tomorrow," Schools of Today: Progressive Education in the 21st Century documents a new collection of child-centered progressive schools founded in the first half of the twentieth century and provides histories of some contemporary examples of progressive practices.
Brings together chapters by researchers from South Africa, Portugal, the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, to build on the theoretical concepts developed by Bernstein to explore issues of access and acquisition to school knowledge.
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