History of Education

A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum (1988) surveys the syllabuses for schoolchildren in the Soviet education system following the reforms of 1984. Eve...

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the states desire to control its citizensNearly ever...

This penetrating historical study traces the rise and fall of the theory of recapitulation and its enduring influence on American education. Inhere...

This book aims to fill the gap in our knowledge about crisis management in schools, its particular characteristics, and strategies from a historica...

Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the c...