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Twentieth-Century Textbook Wars
When critics initially attacked textbook publishers for selfishly pursuing profits and employing flawed models of pedagogy, zealous advocates were able to rebut these philosophical …
«Schools of Tomorrow,» Schools of Today
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 …
Jefferson's Vision for Education, 1760-1845
Thomas Jefferson's ideas on education evolved over sixty years - from his adolescent years at The College of William and Mary, through the Revolution and election of 1800, to his …
Politics and Public Higher Education in New York State
New York was the last state in the Union to create in 1948 a state-supported system of higher education, and Stony Brook became its first comprehensive University Center formed de …
Upholding the Faith
Notwithstanding the lack of substantial state aid for nearly one hundred years, the Roman Catholic Church in Australia was successful not only in maintaining but also in expanding …
And There Were Giants in the Land
William Heard Kilpatrick (1871-1965) was, during his long career, the chief interpreter and disseminator of John Dewey's educational thought. Known as -Columbia's Million-Dollar …
Sixties Legacy
In the sociocultural turmoil of the late 1960s, a movement emerged to create alternatives to conventional schooling and democratize public education through parental choice in …
A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America
A Policy History of Standards-Based Education in America is a narrative history of the development of standards-based education in the United States over the last several decades, …
Progressive Pioneer
Alexander James Inglis's (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experimentalist and advocate of the …
Change in Early Nineteenth-Century Higher Education in New York’s Capital District
This book on higher education institutional history is unlike any other. It is not a history of a particular school or a group of schools of the same type; instead it describes the …
A Disciplined Progressive Educator
Throughout his almost fifty-year career in education, William Chandler Bagley (1874-1946) served as an untiring fighter for liberal and professional education as well as the …
Education and the Great Depression
"Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History" examines the history of schools in terms of pedagogies, curricula, policies, and practices at the point of …