The American public has increasingly heard that teacher unions and quality education are contradictory terms and that unions are responsible for the failure of public schools. Many critics of the unions would cheerfully channel public funds to largely nonunion private and parochial schools as free market alternatives. The present volume, edited by friends of the teacher unions and featuring contributions by prominent education scholars as well as union activists, has a far more positive perspective on the achievements and value of teacher unions and our public education system. The collection...
The American public has increasingly heard that teacher unions and quality education are contradictory terms and that unions are responsible for the f...
A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range from broad based historical comparisons to analyses of select case studies.
A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range...
Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study, this unique volume presents an unusually thorough and much needed holistic view of the NEA.
Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context...
Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study, this unique volume presents an unusually thorough and much needed holistic view of the NEA.
Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context...
Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His "Negro Education in Alabama "won Brown University s Susan Colver Rosenberger Book Prize in 1937 and was praised as a landmark by W. E. B. Dubois in "American Historical Review" and by scholars in journals such as "Journal of Negro Education" and the "Journal of Southern History. " A seminal and wide-ranging work that encompasses not only education per se but a keen analysis of the African American experience of Reconstruction and the following...
Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His "Neg...
In "Black Scholar," Wayne J. Urban chronicles the distinguished life and career of the historian, teacher, and university administrator Horace Mann Bond. Urban illuminates not only the man and his accomplishments but also the many issues that confronted him and his colleagues in black education during the middle decades of the twentieth century. After covering the major events of Bond's youth, Urban follows him from his student years at Lincoln University and the University of Chicago through his work for the Julius Rosenwald Fund to his subsequent administrative leadership at several...
In "Black Scholar," Wayne J. Urban chronicles the distinguished life and career of the historian, teacher, and university administrator Horace Mann...
Sparked by dramatic Soviet achievements, particularly in nuclear technology and the development of the Sputnik space orbiter, the United States responded in the late 1950s with an extraordinary federal investment in education. Designed to overcome a perceived national failure to produce enough qualified scientists, engineers, and mathematicians to compete with the Communist bloc, the effort resulted in the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA). Representative Carl Elliott and Senator Lister Hill both from Alabama, and then Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Elliot...
Sparked by dramatic Soviet achievements, particularly in nuclear technology and the development of the Sputnik space orbiter, the United States respon...
Contents: Educational Bookkeeping: The Research Division in the 1920s; The Research Division and Economic Crisis, the 1930s; War and Its Aftermath: The Research Division, 1940-1957; The Research Division in an NEA Crisis, 1957-1972; NEA Research Services: The End of the Research Division, 1972-1982; Continuity, Change, and the Appearance of Change, 1981-1990; The Present and the Past: The Research Division, 1990-1997; Conclusion; Index.
Contents: Educational Bookkeeping: The Research Division in the 1920s; The Research Division and Economic Crisis, the 1930s; War and Its Aftermath: Th...
This volume consists of twenty six autobiographical essays by leading historians of American education which document the enormous variety of paths taken to get into this field. A companion to earlier volumes on philosophy of education and curriculum studies, the historians in this volume reflect a wide variety of interests that underlay accomplishment in this scholarly field. They come from diverse backgrounds that have animated their scholarly careers in compelling ways. Readers in any variety of educational or historical study should learn from this volume how unplanned careers can still...
This volume consists of twenty six autobiographical essays by leading historians of American education which document the enormous variety of paths ta...
This volume consists of twenty six autobiographical essays by leading historians of American education which document the enormous variety of paths taken to get into this field. A companion to earlier volumes on philosophy of education and curriculum studies, the historians in this volume reflect a wide variety of interests that underlay accomplishment in this scholarly field. They come from diverse backgrounds that have animated their scholarly careers in compelling ways. Readers in any variety of educational or historical study should learn from this volume how unplanned careers can still...
This volume consists of twenty six autobiographical essays by leading historians of American education which document the enormous variety of paths ta...
