History of education: Recent print books
This guide is for those beginning research in the history of education.
Recent print books
- Lessons from the foothills: Berea College and its unique role in America by Gretchen DykstraPublication Date: 2024In 1859, a mob of sixty-five prominent armed men rode into Berea, Kentucky, and forced the closure of its integrated one-room schoolhouse. Founded by Kentucky-born abolitionist John Gregg Fee, the school was open to anyone, regardless of their race or gender--a notion that horrified white supremacists. The mob evicted thirty-six community members, including Fee's family, but Fee and the others returned to Berea in 1864 and reestablished the institution, still committed to educating Appalachia's most vulnerable populations. In Lessons from the Foothills, Gretchen Dykstra profiles modern Berea College with its rich and beloved history.
- Mr. Lancaster's system: the failed reform that created America's public schools by Adam LaatsPublication Date: 2024Two centuries ago, London school reformer Joseph Lancaster swept into New York City to revolutionize its public schools. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passed laws mandating Lancaster's methods, and cities such as Albany, Savannah, Detroit, and Baltimore soon followed. In Mr. Lancaster's System, Adam Laats tells the story of how this abusive, scheming reformer fooled the world into believing his system could provide free high-quality education for poor children. The system never worked as promised, but thanks to real work done by students, teachers, and families, Lancaster's failed reforms eventually led to the creation of the modern public school system.
- Dividing the public: school finance and the creation of structural inequit by Matthew Gardner KellyPublication Date: 2023In Dividing the Public, Matthew Gardner Kelly takes aim at the racial and economic disparities that characterize public education funding in the United States. With California as his focus, Kelly illustrates that the use of local taxes to fund public education was never an inadvertent or de facto product of past practices, but an intentional decision adopted in place of well-known alternatives during the Progressive Era, against past precedent and principle in several states. From efforts to convert expropriated Indigenous and Mexican land into common school funding in the 1850s, to reforms that directed state aid to expanding white suburbs during the years surrounding World War II, Dividing the Public traces, in intricate detail, how a host of policies connected to school funding have divided California by race and class over time.
- Spying on students: the FBI, Red Squads, and student activists in the 1960s South by Gregg L. Michel; David Goldfield (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2024Gregg L. Michel's Spying on Students focuses on the law enforcement campaign against New Left and progressive student activists in the South during the 1960s. Often overlooked by scholars, white southern students worked alongside their Black peers in the civil rights struggle, drove opposition to the Vietnam War, and embraced the counterculture?s rejection of conventions and norms. While African Americans bore the brunt of police surveillance and harassment, federal agencies such as the FBI and local police intelligence units known as Red Squads subjected white student activists to wide-ranging, intrusive, and illegal monitoring.
- Culture wars in American education: past and present struggles over the symbolic order by Michael R. OlneckPublication Date: 2024Culture Wars in American Education: Past and Present Struggles over the Symbolic Order radically questions norms and values held within US Education, and analyses why and how culture wars in American education are intense, consequential, and recurrent.
- Confronting Jim Crow: race, memory, and the University of Georgia in the twentieth century by Robert CohenPublication Date: 2024In Confronting Jim Crow, Robert Cohen explores the University of Georgia's long history of racism and the struggle to overcome it, shedding light on white Georgia's historical amnesia concerning the university's role in sustaining the Jim Crow system. By extending the historical analysis beyond the desegregation crisis of 1961, Cohen unveils UGA's deep-rooted anti-Black stance preceding formal desegregation efforts. Through the lens of Black and white student, faculty, and administration perspectives, this book exposes the enduring impact of Jim Crow and its lingering effects on campus integration.
- Kent State: an American tragedy by Brian VanDeMarkPublication Date: 2024On May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young Americans--National Guardsmen sporting gas masks and rifles. At half past noon, violence unfolded with chaotic speed, as guardsmen--many of whom had joined the Guard to escape the draft--opened fire on the students. Kent State meticulously re-creates the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War and heightened popular anxieties around the country.
- Dreaming the new woman: an oral history of missionary schoolgirls in Republican China by Jennifer BondPublication Date: 2024Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled "foreign puppets" or seen as passive recipients of a western-style education. By focusing on the pupils' own perspectives and drawing on seventy-five oral history interviews conducted with missionary school alumnae, alongside student writings, missionary reports, and newspaper sources, this fascinating book provides fresh insights into what it meant to be Chinese, female, and Christian during the first half of China's turbulent twentieth century.
- Indoctrinating the youth: secondary education in wartime China and postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960 by Jennifer LiuPublication Date: 2024Indoctrinating the Youth examines how the Guomindang (GMD or Nationalists) sought to maintain control of middle-school students and cultivate their political loyalty over the trajectory of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, and postwar Taiwan.
- Yale and slavery: a history by David W. Blight; Yale and Slavery Research Project; Peter Salovey (Foreword)Publication Date: 2024Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University's historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. This narrative history demonstrates the importance of slavery in the making of this renowned American institution of higher learning.
- Last to eat, last to learn: my life in Afghanistan fighting to educate women by Pashtana Durrani; Tamara BraloPublication Date: 2024Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, where girls are often married off before reaching their teenage years and prohibited from leaving their homes, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana was raised in an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan where her father, a tribal leader, founded a community school for girls within their home. Fueled by his insistence that despite being a girl, she mattered and deserved an education, Pashtana was sixteen when, against impossible odds, she was granted a path out of the refugee camp: admittance to a preparatory program at Oxford.
- "Let us go free": slavery and Jesuit universities in America by C. Walker GollarPublication Date: 2024For more than two hundred years, Jesuit colleges and seminaries in the United States supported themselves on the labor of the enslaved. "Let Us Go Free" tells the complex stories of the free and enslaved people associated with these Catholic institutions. Walker Gollar shows that, in spite of their Catholic faith, Jesuits were in most respects very typical slaveholders.
- "We want better education!": the 1960s Chicano student movement, school walkouts, and the quest for educational reform in South Texas by James BarreraPublication Date: 2024In "We Want Better Education!", James B. Barrera offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the educational, cultural, and political issues of the Chicano Movement in Texas, which remains one of the lesser-known social and political efforts of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This movement became the political training ground for greater Chicano empowerment for students. By the 1970s, it was these students who helped to organize La Raza Unida Party in Texas.
- Desert dreams: Mexican Arizona and the politics of educational equality by Laura K. MuñozPublication Date: 2024Desert Dreams chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era. Laura K. Muñoz reveals how Arizona Mexicans, or Arizonenses, embraced the United States expecting that they would be treated as American citizens. Instead, Anglo Arizonans wrote laws and designed schools to transform Mexicans from "unassimilable immigrants" into "American workers" by restricting their education to the acquisition of fluency in English and mastery of basic domestic and industrial skills.
2023
- Not alone: LGB teachers organizations from 1970 to 1985 by Jason MayernickPublication Date: 2023Between 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) educators publicly left their classroom closets, formed communities, and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and representation in the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, as well as building community and advocacy in major gay and lesbian teacher organizations in New York, Los Angeles, and Northern California. In so doing, LGB teachers went from being a profoundly demonized and silenced population that suffered as symbolically emblematic of the harmful "bad teacher" to being an organized community of professionals deserving of rights, capable of speaking for themselves, and often able to reframe themselves as "good teachers."
- School clothes: a collective memoir of Black student witness by Jarvis R. GivensPublication Date: 2023Black students were forced to live and learn on the Black side of the color line for centuries, through the time of slavery, Emancipation, and the Jim Crow era. And for just as long-even through to today-Black students have been seen as a problem and a seemingly troubled population in America's public imagination. Through over one hundred firsthand accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Professor Jarvis Givens offers a powerful counter-narrative in School Clothes to challenge such dated and prejudiced storylines.
- Washington State rising: Black power on campus in the Pacific Northwest by Marc Arsell RobinsonPublication Date: 2023Washington State Rising documents the origins, actions, and impact of the Black Student Union (BSU) in Washington from 1967 to 1970. The BSU was a politicized student organization that had chapters across the West Coast and played a prominent role in the student wing of the Black Power Movement.
2022
- "My emancipation don't fit your equation": critical enactments of Black education in the US by Brian LozenskiPublication Date: 2022This book takes the reader through a complex and precarious journey to understand the multitude of educational experiences and perspectives of African Americans. Weaving through nearly four hundred years of history beginning in pre-colonial West Africa all the way to our current time will challenge the reader to consider the debates, aspirations, and risks that are inherent in all education.
- American Catholic schools in the twentieth century: encounters with public education policies, practices, and reforms by Ann Marie RyanPublication Date: 2022This book examines how Catholic educators grappled with public educational policies and reforms like standardization and accreditation, educational measurement and testing, and federal funding for schools during the early to mid-twentieth century. These issues elicited an array of reactions including resistance, cooperation, and co-optation.
- American higher education in a global context : historical perspectives by Cristina GonzálezPublication Date: 2022American Higher Education in a Global Context: Historical Perspectives describes the current state of universities on each continent, providing a comprehensive analysis of the numerous factors that have affected higher education systems around the world.
- The dawning of diversity: how Chicanos helped change Stanford University by Frank Sotomayor; Barbara SotomayorPublication Date: 2022This is a story about transformational change: How Stanford was pressured to pivot from a virtually all-White student body to a university with growing numbers of students of color. This largely untold story focuses on Mexican Americans - or Chicanos as they preferred to be called. It is chronicled not only through events and actions but also through the students' recollections of angst and joy, challenges and rewards, distress and romance, struggles to achieve goals and dreams that came true.
- Deculturalization and the struggle for equality: a brief history of the education of dominated cultures in the United States by Joel H. SpringPublication Date: 2022"Joel Springs history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization-the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The focus is on the education of dominated groups forced to become citizens in territories conquered by the U.S., including Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and Hawaiians."
- Desegregation state: college writing programs after the civil rights movement by Annie S. MendenhallPublication Date: 2022The only book-length study of the ways that postsecondary desegregation litigation and policy affected writing instruction and assessment in US colleges, Desegregation State provides a history of federal enforcement of higher education desegregation and its impact on writing programs from 1970 to 1988.
- The dismantling of moral education: how higher education reduced the human identity by Perry L. GlanzerPublication Date: 2022In higher education guided by Meta-Democracy, students lose their autonomy to administrators who reduce the student identities they try to develop along with the range of virtues that comprise the good life. The Dismantling of Moral Education: How Higher Education Reduced the Human Identity explains why and how we arrived at diminishing ourselves.
- Education in South Korea: reflections on a seventy-year journey by Won-Ki Kim; Jae-Woong Kim; Sam-Geun Kwak; Don-Hee Lee; Myung-Hee Lee; Dong-Joon Park; Jung-Ho YangPublication Date: 2022This book, the result of a landmark colloquium held in Korea to reflect on the role of education in Korean society, provides fascinating insights into the interplay of political evolution and pedagogy.
- Empires of ideas: creating the modern university from Germany to America to China by William C. KirbyPublication Date: 2022William C. Kirby examines the successes of leading universities--The University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin in Germany; Harvard, Duke, and the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States--to determine how they rose to prominence and what threats they currently face. Kirby draws illuminating comparisons to the trajectories of three Chinese contenders: Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the University of Hong Kong, which aim to be world-class institutions that can compete with the best the United States and Europe have to offer.
- Gender and education in England since 1770: a social and cultural history by Jane MartinPublication Date: 2022This book takes a novel approach to the topic, combining biographical approaches and local history, a synthesis of sociological and historical literature, with new research to address a variety of themes and provide a comprehensive, rounded history demonstrating the entanglement of educational experience and the influence of different modes of discrimination and prejudice.
- A guide to high-stakes standardized testing in the United States: a historical overview by Amy L. KellyPublication Date: 2022High-stakes standardized testing has a long history of exclusion, oppression, power, and control with deep roots in the landscape of American education. This history is essential to understanding our current realities of testing in the United States especially as they relate to marginalization and control of certain populations.
- A history of education in modern Russia: aims, ways, outcomes by Wayne Dowler; Jonathan Smele (Series ed.); Michael Melancon (Series ed.)Publication Date: 2022A History of Education in Modern Russia is the first book to trace the significance of education in Russia from Peter the Great's reign all the way through to Vladimir Putin and the present day. Individual chapters open with an overview of the political, social, diplomatic and cultural environment of the period in order to orient the reader.
- Ideas and European education policy, 1973-2020: constructing the Europe of knowledge? by Marina Cino PagliarelloPublication Date: 2022This book analyses the transformation of European Education Policy from 1973 to 2020. In doing so, it offers a unique insight into the changes of European education from a predominantly national concern to a supranational policy framework, driven by an economic discourse concerning productivity and employability. The book shows that the idea of the "Europe of Knowledge" did not originate in the Lisbon Strategy of 2000, but rather was the result of a gradual development that started in the mid-1980s.
- Latina/o/x education in Chicago: roots, resistance, and transformation by Isaura Pulido (Ed.); Angelica Rivera (Ed.); Ann M. Aviles (Ed.); Jaime Alanís; Ann M. Avilés; Gabriel Alejandro Cortez; Erica R. Dávila; Lilia Fernandez; Nilda Flores-González; Cristina Pacione-Zayas; Arlene Torres; Mirelsie Velázquez; Leticia Villarreal SosaPublication Date: 2022In this collection, local experts use personal narratives and empirical data to explore the history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The essays focus on three themes: the historical context of segregated and inferior schooling for Latina/o/x students; the changing purposes and meanings of education for Latina/o/x students from the 1950s through today; and Latina/o/x resistance to educational reforms grounded in neoliberalism.
- LGBTQ+ History in high school classes in the United States since 1990 by Stacie Brensilver BermanPublication Date: 2022From grassroots campaigns and activism to top-down initiatives for and against curricular reform, this book investigates the movement to integrate LGBTQ+ history into high school history courses in the USA. Stacie Brensilver Berman charts the development of the movement from the founding of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the passing of the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act in California, to the resurgence of conservative thought after the 2016 election.
- Making schools American: nationalism and the origin of modern educational politics by Cody D. EwertPublication Date: 2022In Making Schools American, Cody Dodge Ewert makes clear that nationalism was the leading argument for schooling during the Progressive Era. Bringing together case studies of school reform crusades in New York, Utah, and Texas, he explores what was gained--and lost--as efforts to transform American schools evolved across space and time. Offering fresh insight into the development and politicization of public schooling in America, Ewert also reveals how reformers' utopian visions and lofty promises laid the groundwork for contemporary battles over the mission and methods of American public schools.
- The Marion Thompson Wright reader by Graham Russell Gao Hodges (Ed.)Publication Date: 2022In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright's classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work.
- Not paved for us: black educators and public school reform in Philadelphia by Camika Royal; Gloria Ladson-Billings (Foreword); H. Richard Milner (Series ed.Publication Date: 2022Not Paved for Us chronicles a fifty-year period in Philadelphia education, and offers a critical look at how school reform efforts do and do not transform outcomes for Black students and educators.
- Puerto Rican Chicago: schooling the city, 1940-1977 by Mirelsie VelazquezPublication Date: 2022The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago's Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens.
- Racism on campus : a visual history of prominent Virginia colleges and Howard University by Stephen C. PoulsonPublication Date: 2022Drawing on content from yearbooks published by prominent colleges in Virginia, this book explores changes in race relations that have occurred at universities in the United States since the late 19th century. It juxtaposes the content published in predominantly White university yearbooks to that published by Howard University, a historically Black college.
- Reckoning: Kalamazoo College uncovers its racial and colonial past by Anne DuewekePublication Date: 2022At a time when many individuals and institutions are reexamining their histories to better understand their tangled roots of racism and oppression, Reckoning: Kalamazoo College Uncovers Its Racial and Colonial Past tells the story of how American ideas about colonialism and race shaped Kalamazoo College, a progressive liberal arts institution in the Midwest. Beginning with its founding in 1833 during the era of Indian Removal, the book follows the development of the college through the Civil War, the long period of racial entrenchment that followed Reconstruction, minstrel shows performed on campus in the 1950s during the rise of the Civil Rights movement, Black student activism in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, the quest for multiculturalism in the 1990s, and the recent activism of a changing student body.
- Reexamining the federal role in higher education: politics and policymaking in the postsecondary sector by Rebecca S. NatowPublication Date: 2022This book provides a comprehensive description of the federal government's relationship with higher education and how that relationship became so expansive and indispensable over time. Drawing from constitutional law, social science research, federal policy documents, and original interviews with key policy insiders, the author explores the U.S. government's role in regulating, financing, and otherwise influencing higher education.
- School leadership for democratic education in South Africa: perspectives, achievements and future challenges post-Apartheid by edited by Tsediso Michael Makoelle, Thabo Makhalemele and Pierre du PlessisPublication Date: 2022School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa explores the democratization and modernization of education in South Africa, analyzing the state of school leadership in South African schools from the time of the new democratic education dispensation in 1994 to the present day. The book maps out what the future of education in South Africa could look like and explores the most conducive educational environments for change in South African schools.
- Stop the pendulum: public policy and personal experience in reading instruction and reform by William D. Bursuck; Craig PeckPublication Date: 2022This is a book about the struggles over reforming reading instruction and the corresponding effort to improve reading achievement in the United States over the last seven decades.
- Teachers as state-builders: education and the making of the modern Middle East by Hilary Falb KalismanPublication Date: 2022The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world--and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle East Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideologies.
- Teaching White supremacy: America's democratic ordeal and the forging of our national identity by Donald YacovonePublication Date: 2022A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America's white supremacy--from the country's inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today's Black Lives Matter.
- To live more abundantly: Black collegiate women, Howard University, and the audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe by Tamara Beauboeuf-LafontantPublication Date: 2022Focusing on the career of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first trained African American student affairs professional in the United States, this book examines how her philosophy of ""living more abundantly"" envisioned educational access and institutionalized campus thriving for Black college women.
- We too! Gender equity in education and the road to Title IX by Eileen H. TamuraPublication Date: 2022This book provides a comprehensive history of the passage of Title IX, the key legislation to bring about gender equity in education. Using a variety of primary source material, this historical study uses sociological conceptual frameworks to analyze feminist activism in the 1960s that culminated in the 1970s with Title IX and its regulation.
- A worthy piece of work: the untold story of Madeline Morgan and the fight for Black history in schools by Michael HinesPublication Date: 2022A Worthy Piece of Work tells the story of Madeline Morgan (later Madeline Stratton Morris), a teacher and an activist in WWII-era Chicago, who fought her own battle on the home front, authoring curricula that bolstered Black claims for recognition and equal citizenship. During the Second World War, as Black Americans both fought to save democracy abroad and demanded full citizenship at home, Morgan's work gained national attention and widespread praise, and became a model for teachers, schools, districts, and cities across the country.
2021
- Allies and rivals: German-American exchange and the rise of the modern research university by Emily J. LevinePublication Date: 2021Allies and Rivals is the first history of the ascent of American higher education seen through the lens of German-American exchange. In a series of compelling portraits of such leaders as Wilhelm von Humboldt, Martha Carey Thomas, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Emily J. Levine shows how academic innovators on both sides of the Atlantic competed and collaborated to shape the research university.
- A better life for their children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 schools that changed America by Andrew Feiler; John Lewis (Foreword by); Jeanne Cyriaque (Contribution by); Brent Leggs (Contribution by)Publication Date: 2021Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with black communities across the segregated South to build public schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the history of philanthropy--one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans--drove dramatic improvement in African American educational attainment and fostered the generation who became the leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement.
- A college for all Californians: a history of the California community colleges by George R. Boggs (Ed.); Larry Galizio (Ed.); Constance M. Carroll (Foreword); Jack Scott (Foreword)Publication Date: 2021This is the first comprehensive and contemporary history of the largest and most diverse public system of higher education in the United States. A College for All Californians chronicles the sector's emergence from K-12 institutions, its evolving mission and growth following World War II and the G.I. Bill For Education, the expansion of its ever-broadening mission, and its essential role in the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education.
- Contesting education and identity in Hong Kong by Liz JacksonPublication Date: 2021This text examines the intersection of youth civic engagement, identity, and protest in Hong Kong, through the lens of education. It explores how education and identity have been protested in Hong Kong, historically and today, and the mark that such contestations have left on education.
- Dangerous ideas on campus: sex, conspiracy, and academic freedom in the age of JFK by Matthew C. EhrlichPublication Date: 2021In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job. Matthew Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom.
- Disturbing the war: the inside story of the movement to get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia 1965-1975 by Lenny SiegelPublication Date: 2021In the 1960s, Stanford University was already known as one of America's "great research universities." Less known to outsiders, it was an essential cog in the U.S. war machine during the Vietnam War. From the mid-1960s through the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, a dedicated, evolving group of students and other members of the Stanford community challenged that role and the leadership of the university itself. Lenny Siegel tells the inside story of the Stanford radical, anti-war student Movement, how activists used research, education, political activity, and direct action to win over their campus cohort, alter Stanford's direction in the world, and lay the foundation for what became known as Silicon Valley.
- Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's vision for social justice by Stephen PreskillPublication Date: 2021The first biography of Myles Horton in twenty-five years, Education in Black and White focuses on the educational theories and strategies he first developed at Highlander to serve the interests of the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed. His personal vision keenly influenced everyone from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman John Lewis.
- The end of college : religion and the transformation of higher education in the 20th century by Robert Wilson-BlackPublication Date: 2021The college ideal was primarily shaping the few to enter the Protestant management class through the inculcation of values associated with a Western civilization that relied upon this training done residentially, primarily for young men. Protestant Christian leaders created religion departments as the college model was shifting to the university ideal, where a more democratized population, including women and non-Protestants, studied under professors trained in specialized disciplines to achieve professional careers in a more internationally connected and post-industrial class.
- Free city! : the fight for San Francisco's city college and education for all by Marcy Rein (Ed.); Mickey Ellinger (Ed.); Vicki Legion (Foreword)Publication Date: 2021Free City! The Fight for San Francisco s City College and Education for All tells the story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US. In 2012, the accreditor sanctioned City College of San Francisco, one of the biggest and best community colleges in the country, and a year later proposed terminating its accreditation, leading to a state takeover.
- Fugitive pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the art of Black teaching by Jarvis R. GivensPublication Date: 2021A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose faith in the subversive power of education will inspire teachers and learners today. Black education was a subversive act from its inception. African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence.
- The great upheaval: higher education's past, present, and uncertain future by Arthur Levine; Scott J. Van PeltPublication Date: 2021In The Great Upheaval, Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt examine higher and postsecondary education to see how it has changed to become what it is today--and how it might be refitted for an uncertain future. Taking a unique historical, cross-industry perspective, Levine and Van Pelt perform a 360-degree survey of American higher education. Combining historical, trend, and comparative analyses of other business sectors, they ask * how much will colleges and universities change, what will change, and how will these changes occur? * will institutions of higher learning be able to adapt to the challenges they face, or will they be disrupted by them? * will the industrial model of higher education be repaired or replaced? * why is higher education more important than ever?
- The history of educational measurement: key advancements in theory, policy, and practice by Brian E. Clauser; Michael B. BunchPublication Date: 2021The History of Educational Measurement collects essays on the most important topics in educational testing, measurement, and psychometrics. Authored by the field's top scholars, this book offers unique historical viewpoints, from origins to modern applications, of formal testing programs and mental measurement theories.
- A history of education for the many: from colonization and slavery to the decline of US imperialism by Curry MalottPublication Date: 2021Offering a novel take on the history of education in the US, A History of Education for the Many examines the development of the education system from a global and internationalist perspective. Challenging the dominant narratives that such development is the product of either a flourishing democracy or a ruling-class project to reproduce structural inequalities, this book demonstrates the link between education and the struggles of working-class and oppressed peoples inside and outside the US. In a country notorious for educating its people with an inability to see beyond its own borders, this book offers a timely corrective by focusing on the primacy of the global balances of forces in shaping the history of US education.
- A history of literacy education: waves of research and practice by Robert J. Tierney; P. David PearsonPublication Date: 2021In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with particular attention to what they consider the central goal of literacy--making meaning. Each section describes a specific epoch, including a brief snapshot of how the reader of that period is envisioned and characterized by researchers and teachers, as well as a deep discussion of the ideas and contextual events of that era.
- Invisible no more: the African American experience at the University of South Carolina by Robert Greene II (Ed.); Tyler D. Parry (Ed.); Valinda W. Littlefield; Henrie Monteith TreadwellPublication Date: 2021Invisible No More details the long and complex history of people of African descent at South Carolina's flagship university. Essays by twelve scholars explore a broad range of topics, from an examination of the lives of the enslaved men and women who lived and worked on the campus, to the first desegregation during the Reconstruction era, and continuing through the famous 1963 desegregation of the school and its long aftermath.
- The kindness of color: the story of two families and Mendez, et al. v. Westminster, the 1947 desegregation of California public schools by Janice Munemitsu; Sylvia Mendez (Foreword)Publication Date: 2021The Kindness of Color follows two immigrant families facing separate battles with racism in WWII-era Southern California. Unexpectedly, their paths intertwine, ultimately paving the way for the landmark court case Mendez, et. al v. Westminster and the desegregation of California public schools seven years before Brown v. Board of Education. In the face of tremendous discrimination, the Mendez and Munemitsu families are sustained by the simple yet harrowing acts of kindness extended to them by friends and strangers as they navigate their difficult journeys toward justice.
- Paulo Freire: a philosophical biography by Walter Omar KohanPublication Date: 2021Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most widely read and studied educational thinkers of our time. His seminal works, including Pedagogy of the Oppressed, sparked the global social and philosophical movement of critical pedagogy and his ideas about the close ties between education and social justice and politics are as relevant today as they ever were. In this book, Walter Omar Kohan interweaves philosophical, educational, and biographical elements of Freire's life which prompt us to reflect on what we thought we knew about Freire, and also on the relationship between education and politics more broadly.
- Persistence through peril: episodes of college life and academic endurance in the Civil War South by R. Eric Platt (Ed.); Holly A. Foster (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021To date, most texts regarding higher education in the Civil War South focus on the widespread closure of academies. In contrast, Persistence through Peril: Episodes of College Life and Academic Endurance in the Civil War South brings to life several case histories of southern colleges and universities that persisted through the perilous war years. Contributors tell these stories via the lived experiences of students, community members, professors, and administrators as they strove to keep their institutions going.
- Radical reform in Irish schools, 1900-1922: the 'new education' turn by Teresa O'Doherty; Tom O'DonoghuePublication Date: 2021This book examines the radical reform that occurred during the final two decades of British rule in Ireland when William Starkie (1860-1920) presided as Resident Commissioner for the Board. In the midst of radical political and cultural change within Ireland, visionaries and leaders like Starkie filled an indispensable role in Irish education. They oversaw the introduction of a radical child-centered primary school curriculum, often referred to as the 'new education'. Filling a gap in Irish history, this book provides a much needed overview of the changes that occurred in primary education during the 22 years leading up to Ireland's independence.
- A social history of literacy in Japan by Richard Rubinger (Ed. and Trans.)Publication Date: 2021Despite the great interest in and the availability of enormous literature about education in Japan, this book is a translation of the first work written in Japanese on the history of literacy in Japan. The authors are each accomplished scholars of Japanese educational history, and each provides solid empirical evidence and original analyses of literacy in their own particular specialty, from Heian aristocrats, to religious sects in the medieval period, to Christian believers in the sixteenth century, to a variety of farmers and merchants in early modern times.
- The state must provide: why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right by Adam HarrisPublication Date: 2021In The State Must Provide, Adam Harris reckons with the history of a higher education system that has systematically excluded Black people from its benefits. Harris weaves through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States, studying the Black Americans who fought their way to an education, pivotal Supreme Court cases like Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, and the government's role in creating and upholding a segregated education system. He explores the role that Civil War-era legislation intended to bring agricultural education to the masses had in creating the HBCUs that have played such a major part in educating Black students when other state and private institutions refused to accept them.
- Student power, democracy and revolution in the sixties by Nick LicataPublication Date: 2021"Unlike other books on the Sixties, this book shows how predominantly working middle-class white students in a very conservative region initiated radical changes. They ushered in a new era of protecting women and minorities from discriminatory practices."
- Student resistance in the age of chaos by Mark Edelman BorenPublication Date: 2021Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 2, is being published simultaneously with Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, 1999-2009. Together, the two volumes present a complete and unprecedented history of today's student activism phenomenon.
- To drink from the well: the struggle for racial equality at the nation's oldest public university by Geeta N. Kapur; William J. Barber II (Foreword)Publication Date: 2021Law professor and civil rights activist Geeta N. Kapur provides analysis and commentary on the story of systemic racism in leadership, scholarship, and organizational foundations at the University of North Carolina.
- Transatlantic elective affinities: traveling ideas and their mediators by Herta Nagl-Docekal (Ed.); Waldemar Zacharaswiewicz (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021This volume is the result of an international workshop in which scholars from several disciplines explored less familiar instances of the exchange of ideas across the Atlantic. In the 19th century many American graduates both in the humanities, social and natural sciences as well as medicine, appreciating the progress in these fields of learning in continental Europe, and noting an elective affinity with their peers there, spent time at universities and medical institutions in German-speaking countries and then tried to reform their educational and academic institutions on the basis of transatlantic models. American institutions also recruited scientists from Central Europe for their work.
- University women: a history of women and higher education in Canada by Sara Z. MacDonaldPublication Date: 2021In University Women Sara MacDonald explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women's contested entrance into higher education. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, this book is the first to provide a comparative study of women at universities across Canada. MacDonald concludes that women's higher education cannot be seen as a progressive narrative, a triumphant story of trailblazers and firsts, of doors being thrown open and staying open. The early promise of equal education was not fulfilled in the longer term, as a backlash against the growing presence of women on campuses resulted in separate academic programs, closer moral regulation, and barriers that restricted their admission into the burgeoning fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- Unreconciled: race, history, and higher education in the Deep South by Arthur N. DunningPublication Date: 2021How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining the status quo, or are filled with antipathy toward others? This book tells the story of how a Black university president tried to do just that when he led the first non-court ordered merger of an historically Black university with an historically white two-year college in Albany, Georgia.
- Unwelcome guests: a history of access to American higher education by Harold S. Wechsler; Steven J. DinerPublication Date: 2021A comprehensive history of the barriers faced by students from marginalized racial, ethnic, and religious groups to gain access to predominantly white colleges and universities--and how these students responded to these barriers.
- When students protest by Judith Bessant (Ed.); Analicia Mejia Mesinas (Ed.); Sarah Pickard (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Written by scholars and activists from around the world, When Students Protest: Secondary and High Schools is a three-volume study. The authors document and analyse how generations of secondary and high school students in many countries have been thoughtful, committed and effective political actors and especially so over the past decade. This book also reveals moves by power holders to stigmatise, repress and even criminalise student political campaigns.
- The worlds of knowledge and the classical tradition in the early modern age by Dmitri Levitin (Ed.); Ian Maclean (Ed.)Publication Date: 2021Recent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of scholarly, philosophical, theological, and scientific knowledge well into the eighteenth century. The Worlds of Knowledge and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Ageis the first attempt to adopt a comparative approach to this phenomenon.
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