History of Education

Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. Joh...

Poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a prominent educator. One of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Elementary Schools for 35 years, he trav...

Eighteen years ago, performance artist Liza Jessie Peterson never thought that her day of substitute teaching at Rikers Island C-74 would change th...

In this collection, contributors reflect on scholarly, artistic, activist, educational, and practical endeavor known as Appalachian Studies. Follow...

Howdy, folks! Come join Peaches, a feline resident of Fort Worths Log Cabin Village, as she meanders through this village from a long time ago. Ill...

Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing qu...

A devastating loss of life and a community's response.March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of innovative, outside-the-box thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahe...

Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North Americ...

Changes to the landscape of higher education in the United States over the past decades have urged scholars grappling with issues of privilege, ine...

The musical, social and political history of the renowned St Thomas School and Church In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the cantors of ...

Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consum...

Hove Grammar School for Boys was one of several County schools established by East Sussex County Council in the wake of the government''s establi...

The Casa Italianaa neo-Renaissance palazzo located on Amsterdam Avenue near 117th Streethas been the most important expression of the Italian prese...

Intended to 'relate my experiences to the background of my period and to portray incidents in the life of a woman born in the last quarter of the n...

Like its three predecessors, this fourth instalment of Trinity Tales gathers together recollections of a decade at Trinity College Dublin. This tim...

In 2010, Hofstra University celebrated its 75th anniversary, inviting scholars to the campus to discuss the world as it was in the year Hofstra was...

The Welsh Baptist missionary, Timothy Richard, served for over forty years in China from 1870 and became a household name among educated Chinese. L...