History of Education

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, b...

Originally published in 1974. The close connection between universities and bureaucratic institutions such as church and state was perhaps first no...

It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and...

2022 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award Tejas Foco Non-fiction Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chican...

Those Good Gertrudes explores the professional, civic, and personal roles of women teachers throughout American history. Its voice, themes, and fin...

In Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat, historian A. R. Ruis explores the origins of American school meal initiatives to explain why it was (and, to s...

In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed N...

The denial of equal educational opportunities to women is arguably one of the great injustices in British history. In Willingly to School, Mary Cat...

Practicing Transnationalism explores the challenges of teaching American studies in the Middle East during a time of tension and conflict between t...

While many sources have been lost, scholars have devoted much time and effort to unearthing and analyzing the surviving material in Roman and Europ...

School choice, largely touted as a system that would ensure underprivileged youth have an equal opportunity in education, has grown in popularity i...

Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the w...

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The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still mattersAs the commercialization of American higher education ac...

In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become such a remarkab...

Adopting a life story approach, this book explores the memories of those who attended Irish secondary schools prior to 1967. It serves to initiate ...

Arnold Marsh, son of Belfast tin-factory owner born in 1890, is best remembered as an educationist and headmaster of Newtown Quaker School in Water...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor set off a chain of events that included the race to beat German scientists to build the atomic bomb. A tiny hamlet tuck...

Though over one hundred private schools for Jewish girls thrived in the Russian empire between 1831 and 1881, their story has been largely overlook...

Tracing the history of black schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large - and sometimes within black communities ...

This history of one of the most contentious educational issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the United States from the common schoo...

In Civilizing the Child: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Child Welfare in America, Katherine S. Bullard analyzes the discourse of child welfare adv...

The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This bo...

This volume will examine the history of special education by categorical areas (e.g., Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Autistic Spect...

Paul E. Hoffman's Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1860- 1919 is a highly detailed analysis of LSU's beginnings ...

Make History with Your Students From bestselling author Paul Bambrick-Santoyo and Art Worrell, Uncommon Schools Director of History Instruction, co...

Wooster: From the Middle West to the world The College of Wooster was a proud but modest college for much of its life, exemplified by the titles of...

The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-ye...

In White Jesus: The Architecture of Racism in Religion and Education, White Jesus is conceived as a socially constructed apparatusa mythology that...

Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educat...

Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, poli...

Through a case study of the Los Angeles city school district from the 1950s through the 1970s, Judith Kafka explores the intersection of race, poli...

Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprent...