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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education (Oxford Handbooks)

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JOHN L. RURY is professor emeritus in the School of Education and Human Sciences (ELPS) at the University of Kansas. His published work has focused on questions of race, gender and social inequality in the history of American education, and related policy issues.

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History of Education in the United States by Christopher M. Span LAST REVIEWED: 29 October 2013 LAST MODIFIED: 29 October 2013 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0013

This annotated bibliography concentrates on the history of education in the United States. This history can be divided into two distinct areas: teacher training, and scholarship and research. Well before 1860, history of education, as a course of study, was associated with the professional education training of American teachers. To date, nearly all teacher education programs in the United States still incorporate the history of American education—even if only as part of a social foundations course—as a course requirement in its preservice teacher education programs. The assumption is that providing teachers with a general overview or survey of the most important developments in the history of education in the United States allows them to be self-reflective about the past and better understand the society in which they will teach. As a field of research, history of education has its earliest beginnings in the late 19th century, but by the mid-20th century it was a well-established field of study.

A number of journals specifically publish research on the history of education. The three most prominent journals in the field are the History of Education Quarterly (HEQ), History of Education , and Paedagogica Historica . Other important journals in the field are the American Educational History Journal , Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation , and History of Education Review .

American Educational History Journal .

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The official annual publication of the Organization of Educational Historians (OEH), formerly the Midwest History of Education Society (MHES). The main criteria for publication in this journal is that authors present a cogent and coherent historical analysis at its annual conference.

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Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation . 1989–.

Published twice a year, in both English and French, this peer-reviewed journal is the official journal of the Canadian History of Education Association (CHEA). The journal publishes all aspect of the history of education from informal to formal schooling, and from preschool to the university, as it relates primarily to Canada.

History of Education . 1972–.

This peer-reviewed journal is the official journal of the History of Education Society in the United Kingdom. It publishes six issues a year, and its aim and scope is to provide an outlet for the publication of theoretical, methodological, and historiographical articles on the history of education in Europe, Canada, and the United States.

History of Education Review .

This is the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES). Published biannually, the international journal publishes peer-reviewed research on the history of education, focusing primarily on Australia and New Zealand.

History of Education Quarterly . 1949–.

This outstanding peer-reviewed journal is the official journal of the History of Education Society (HES). First published under this title in 1961, the journal has been the primary publication outlet for scholars who seek to publish original research on the history of education in the United States. Between 1949 and 1961, the journal was published under the title History of Education Journal .

Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education . 1961–.

This peer-reviewed journal is one of the leading journals in the field. It is the official journal of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). Published six times a year and in three languages—English, French, and German—the scope of the research in the journal discusses education issues from a historical, theoretical, and methodological perspective.

There are a number of professional societies for historians of education. These professional societies allow historians of education the opportunity to present their research findings. The most prominent are the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Division F: History and Historiography , the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) , the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) , History of Education Society (HES) , History of Education Society, UK (HES) , the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) , and the Organization of Educational Historians (OEH) .

American Educational Research Association, Division F: History and Historiography .

Division F (History and Historiography) is dedicated to the study and practice of history and historiography. It is a division in the 25,000-member organization of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). It meets annually at different locations in the United States.

American Educational Studies Association .

The American Educational Studies Association (AESA) is a society primarily composed of college and university professors who teach and do research in the field of education, utilizing one or more of the liberal arts disciplines of philosophy, history, politics, sociology, anthropology, or economics, as well as comparative/international and cultural studies. It meets annually at different locations in the United States.

Association for the Study of Higher Education .

The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) is a scholarly society with about two thousand members dedicated to higher education as a field of study. It meets annually at different locations in the United States.

History of Education Society .

The History of Education Society (HES) is an international scholarly society whose purpose is to promote and improve the teaching of the history of education and encourage scholarly research in the history of education. It meets annually at different locations in the United States.

The UK History of Education Society (HES) promotes the study and teaching of history of education and is the annual conference for scholars and historians interested in presenting their research. It meets annually in the United Kingdom.

International Standing Conference for the History of Education .

The International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) was founded in 1978 for the presentation of scholarship related to the history of education outside the United States. It meets annually at different locations in the world.

Organization of Educational Historians .

The Organization of Educational Historians (OEH) is an academic society for scholars interested in the history of education. It was formerly known as the Midwest History of Education Society. It meets annually in Chicago, Illinois.

A number of textbooks are available for the teaching of the history of education in the United States. These textbooks provide a comprehensive overview of the social, philosophical, historical, and economic foundations of education in the United States. The most noteworthy and widely used textbooks in the field are Mondale 2002 , Urban and Wagoner 2008 , Spring 2011 , and Tozer, et al. 2012 . These textbooks provide the most comprehensive information related to the social foundations of American education. An excellent documentary history of the United States is Fraser 2009 , a collection of primary sources of some of the most important personalities and milestones in the history of schools in the United States. Other textbooks that offer added value and alternative perspectives on the history of education in the United States include Gutek 2010 , Spring 2012 , and Rury 2012 .

Fraser, James W. 2009. The school in the United States: A documentary history . New York: Routledge.

This text uses primary sources to detail the educational history of the United States. Particular attention is paid to the role religion, race, language, gender, and the law played in determining who would have access to public schooling.

Gutek, Gerald L. 2010. Historical and philosophical foundations of education: A biographical introduction . 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Through the biographies of some of the leading educational theorists in the history of humanity, this textbook illustrates how education and schools evolved because of their ideas.

Mondale, Sarah. 2002. School: The story of American public education . Boston: Beacon.

This short history is a compilation of essays from esteemed scholars in the field of history of education. It chronicles the evolution of schooling in the United States from the colonial era to the near present. It is the companion book to the PBS video documentary School .

Rury, John. 2012. Education and social change: Contours in the history of American schooling . 4th ed. New York: Routledge.

This short history of American schooling concentrates on the forever changing contours and evolution of schools. Considerable analysis is spent on the educational experiences of women, African Americans, and Native Americans.

Spring, Joel. 2011. American education . 15th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the history of American education. It is revised every two years to provide up-to-date analysis on the historical, social, and legal foundation of American education. It is formatted thematically around relevant issues of the day, such as educational equity and opportunity, diversity, and the politicization of American education.

Spring, Joel. 2012. Deculturalization and the struggle for equality: A brief history of the education of dominated cultures in the United States . 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

This textbook offers a short educational history of groups—African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, women, etc.—historically marginalized in the United States. It has a specific focus on the impact of race and racism, segregation, and the deculturalization of Native Americans.

Tozer, Steven, Guy Senese, and Paul Violas. 2012. School and society: Historical and contemporary perspectives . 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

This textbook illustrates the how schools arose in the United States and how certain issues—such as race, gender, region, socioeconomic status, and language—determined the overall schooling experiences of children in the United States. The text relies on a triangulated analytic framework of how schools, ideology, and political economy shaped schools from the colonial era to the present.

Urban, Wayne J., and Jennings L. Wagoner Jr. 2008. American education: A history . 4th ed. New York: Routledge.

One of the most widely used textbooks on the history of education in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Well-written, and very inclusive of the diversity and ever-changing demographics of the nation, it offers an excellent chronology of the history of education (K-12 and higher education) in the United States.

Very little meaningful scholarship was published that surmised the history of education prior to 1950. Much of the pre-1950 scholarship pertained to statewide reports of schools or were cursory chapters embedded in dense tomes devoted to broader topics in the discipline of history. The earliest publications, such as Boone 1907 , Thwing 1910 , Dexter 1916 , or Cubberly 1919 , served as “house histories” or textbooks for professional teacher education courses. They were flowery narratives that chronicled the early history of schools in the United States. Minimal attention was paid to the role gender, race, religion, socioeconomic status, region, language, or special needs played in the educational experiences and lives of teachers, parents, administrators, or school children. The only publications to articulate aspects of these specifics were typically written by historians, who wrote counter-narratives to these traditional turn-of-the-century histories on American education; these works include Blandin 1909 , Woodson 1919 , Bond 1934 , and Du Bois 1935 .

Blandin, Isabella Margaret Elizabeth. 1909. History of higher education of women in the South prior to 1860 . New York: Neale.

Offers a very early history of the higher educational opportunities of women in the United States prior to the Civil War. Particular attention is paid to women’s access to college in the South and the type of curriculum they were offered. Very little can be discerned as to what impact these collegiate experiences had on these women’s lives.

Bond, Horace Mann. 1934. The education of the Negro in the American social order . New York: Prentice-Hall.

First full-length history of the African American educational experience in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the contemporary present. Considerable attention is paid to the perceived role African Americans were to play in society, because this determined the type of schooling opportunities they would be afforded.

Boone, Richard Gause. 1907. Education in the United States . New York: Appleton.

Offers a flowery and cursory overview of the earliest examples of schooling in the United States. Illustrates the differentiation in education—theological education, legal education, medical education, teacher training, etc.—at the time. Book is available through Google e-books.

Cubberly, Ellwood P. 1919. Public education in the United States: A study and interpretation of American educational history . New York: Houghton Mifflin.

This work is an early textbook that illustrates the history of schooling in the United States from the colonial era to the early 20th century. Particular attention is paid to colonial Massachusetts, educational developments in the early republic, and the reorganization of the nation’s system of schools following the Civil War. Book is available through Google e-books.

Dexter, Edwin Grant. 1916. A history of education in the United States . London: Macmillan.

An early textbook that offers a chronological history of schools in the United States from colonial Virginia to the beginning of the 20th century. Teacher training programs, higher education institutions, and regional analyses is the primary focus of the book. Book is available through Google e-books.

Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. 1935. Founding the public school. Chapter 15 in Black Reconstruction in America: An essay toward a history on the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860–1880 . By William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. London: Oxford Univ. Press.

Magnificent social history on the role African Americans played in the social, political, economic, and educational reconstruction of the American South following the Civil War. The book provides the first comprehensive assessment on the founding of public education in the American South and the role former slaves played in this development.

Thwing, Charles Franklin. 1910. A history of education in the United States since the Civil War . New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Offers a romantic overview of the major philosophical thoughts and organizational practices that defined schooling in the United States following the Civil War. Very little attention is paid to the diverse demographics of the nation and their schooling experiences, or how time, region, or context impacted the development of schools during this era. Book is available through Google e-books.

Woodson, Carter G. 1919. The education of the Negro prior to 1861: A history of the education of the colored people of the United States from the beginning of slavery to the Civil War . Washington, DC: Associated Publishers.

Arguably the first history devoted to the education of African Americans in the United States. Great attention is paid to the role education played in the lives of enslaved and freeborn African Americans in the North and South, and how religion served as the primary catalyst for the earliest schooling opportunities of African Americans. Book is available through Google e-books.

It was only in the 1950s, as history of education came under assault by schools and colleges of education across the nation, that scholars in the field began to write a completely different kind of history of both the purpose of schooling and the pedagogical value of history of education in the teacher-training curriculum. Historians such as Arthur Bestor spurred this shift (see Bestor 1953 ). He argued that schools or colleges of education were failing to train teachers to understand the past to educate the present and future. Historians of education responded in a series of publications defending the functionality and relevance of both their pedagogy and field of expertise. The most prominent of these publications came in a series of articles published in the first three issues of Volume 7 of the History of Education Journal in 1955–1956. The general themes of the issue focused on the past, present, and future role of history of education in the teacher-training curriculum, preparation of doctoral students as future academicians, and the advancement of scholarship based on original sources and research. Key texts in this effort were Butts and Cremin 1953 , Cremin 1955 , Cremin 1956 , and Anderson 1956 , written by three of the most prominent historians in the field. Some historians, such as Louis Harlan, wrote histories to explain contemporary issues, such as legal segregation in public schools ( Harlan 1958 ). It was another way of demonstrating the functional role the history of education played in addressing some of the most pressing problems in American education.

Anderson, Archibald W. 1956. Bases of proposals concerning the history of education. History of Education Journal 7.2: 37–98.

Establishes the premise that the history of education as a course of study in the professional development of teachers is very functional and needed to enhance the everyday knowledge of teachers in their professional careers.

Bestor, Arthur. 1953. Educational wastelands: The retreat from learning in our public schools . Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press.

Scathing critique of the educational philosophy, curriculum, and practices of schools during the Progressive Era. Bestor calls on the nation to abandon Progressive educational reform because he felt the nation’s schoolchildren had regressed under its guise. He calls for a return to the traditional curriculum that heavily emphasized literacy, rhetoric, and numeracy.

Butts, R. Freeman, and Lawrence Cremin. 1953. A history of education in American culture . New York: Holt.

Offers a detailed overview of the history of education in the United States and synthesizes the aesthetics of American iconography and culture into this analysis. The central argument is that the way schools developed and evolved in the United States, writ large, is unique compared to any other nation-state.

Cremin, Lawrence A. 1955. The recent development of the history of education as a field of study in the United States. History of Education Journal 7.1: 1–35.

Offers a short overview of the role the history of education has played in the professional development of teachers in the United States, and why it is necessary for the field to remain in colleges or schools of education rather than shift to departments of history.

Cremin, Lawrence A. 1956. The role of the history of education in the professional preparation of teachers: Recommendations of the committee. History of Education Journal 7.3: 99–132.

This article lists five recommendations as to how history of education can continue to play a prominent role in the professional preparation of teachers, colleges of education, and the discipline of history.

Harlan, Louis R. 1958. Separate and unequal: Public school campaigns and racism in the southern seaboard states, 1900–1915 . Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press.

First book to illustrate in great detail the impact racism had on the educational advancement of African Americans in the first decades of the 20th century. Written during the mass movements for human freedom in the United States, it utilizes the struggles of the times as the primary impetus for retracing this educational history.

History of education evolved tremendously during these two decades as a distinct field of study. In addition to more detailed histories being written on the development of systems of education in the United States and abroad, historians of this time period began to write about the challenges facing contemporary society and how schools have been historically called upon to answer or provide remedy to these challenges. Bailyn 1960 , Cremin 1961 , Karier 1967 , Katz 1968 , and Tyack 1974 all established the argument that schools shaped the progress of the United States. How schools developed and evolved in essence determined the progress of society. As such, many publications during this time period both promoted and challenged the premise that schooling was the panacea to societal problems. No longer was there a uniformed opinion on why schools were created, that they were positive developments, or what their overall purpose was in the nation. The historians who wrote in this era can be divided into two distinct groups: revisionists and traditionalists (discussed in detail in the next two subsections). The histories written by both groups pushed the boundaries of how the history of American education was previously written. They synthesized the history of education into broader considerations in American history; they illustrated both the success and failures of schooling in the United States; and they disaggregated populations such as students, teachers, communities, administrators, theorists, and school communities to provide a more nuanced history of how systems of education evolved in the United States.

Bailyn, Bernard. 1960. Education in the forming of American society: Needs and opportunities for study . Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press.

Provides a broader definition of education to illustrate the fundamental shifts in American education. Education was not just the formal pedagogy or practice of teaching in schools; it was the entirety of the American culture transmitted from one generation to the next. Ideology, political economy, and schools all shaped and reshaped each other, and this, in turn, formed American society.

Cremin, Lawrence A. 1961. The transformation of the school: Progressivism in American education, 1876–1957 . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Details the rise and decline of Progressive education in the United States. Similar to Bailyn, the book expands the definition of education to include the myriad of cultures in American society.

Karier, Clarence J. 1967. Man, society, and education: A history of American educational ideas . Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman.

This book presents a history of the history of educational ideas and how they shaped American society and schools. It directly challenges earlier and contemporary histories that argued that schooling is by nature good for society. Karier argues that no real differences existed between liberalism and conservativism, since proponents of both ideologies deemed schools to be beneficial to societal advancement.

Katz, Michael. 1968. The irony of early school reform: Education innovation in mid-nineteenth century Massachusetts . Boston: Beacon.

Offers an analysis of the development of schooling in Massachusetts during the 19th century. It particularly details the philosophies and practices of Massachusetts educational reformers. Whereas early histories offered sweeping overviews of the development of schools in Massachusetts, Katz situates his history in what he called a “small, concrete situation,” (p. 15) to illustrate how schools evolved in Massachusetts.

Tyack, David B. 1974. The one best system: A history of American urban education . Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.

This history details the origins and challenges of education in urban America. It discusses the rise of massive levels of educational bureaucracy, decentralization, standardized testing, segregation, and ability tracking, and how education theorists and bureaucrats sought to develop one system of education to best meet the needs of all, regardless of their differences in access, ability, and outcome.

Some historians, including those mentioned in the previous section, insisted that schooling was rarely if ever beneficial to everyone in the United States. They sought to offer a revision or corrective history to earlier or contemporary histories that offered interpretations that schooling was universally beneficial to the advancement of the nation and its citizenry. Revisionist historians argued in their respective publications that schools in the 18th, 19th, and first half of the 20th century were not beneficial to most Americans. These works include Karier 1972 ; Karier, et al. 1973 ; Clifford 1975 ; Bowles and Gintis 1976 ; Katz 1976 ; Webber 1978 ; Franklin 1979 ; and Butchart 1980 . They argued that schools were established to replicate the status quo, to control discontent, to control the educational access and outcomes of marginalized populations, to be an engine for coercive assimilation, to determine access of opportunity to limited resources, to simply prepare individuals for employment, and a host of other factors. Using an array of primary source evidence, these historians set out to write the educational histories of how schools and society advanced democracy for some literally at the expense of others. Their emphasis pertained to writing histories of people who had been historically marginalized or simply denied schooling altogether. Their histories illustrated that schools were particularly harmful or unbeneficial, in general, to women, African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, the poor, and immigrants.

Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 1976. Schooling in capitalist America: Education reform and the contradictions of economic life . New York: Basic Books.

Offers a quantitative and economic regression analysis of how schools have served to advance capitalism in the United States at the expense of advancing the overall livelihood of the average citizen. Discusses the uneven distribution of school resources, the origins of standardized testing, and the impact of intergenerational wealth and poverty on school performance and outcome.

Butchart, Ronald E. 1980. Northern schools, southern blacks, and Reconstruction . Westport, CT: Greenwood.

A corrective history to earlier publications written on the role of northern teachers who taught freedpeople during and after the Civil War. Previous scholarship was deeply sympathetic to the South’s defeat following the Civil War. This book challenged this historiography and illustrates a more accurate portrayal of the northern teachers who taught African Americans—free and freed.

Clifford, Geraldine Joncich. 1975. Saints, sinners, and people: A position paper on the historiography of American education. History of Education Quarterly 15.3: 257–272.

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This Division F Vice-Presidential Address details the more recent publications in the history of education and suggests future directions of where the field should continue to grow and conduct research. A comprehensive bibliography of all the known publications on the history of education in the Midwest.

Franklin, Vincent P. 1979. The education of black Philadelphia: The social and education history of a minority community, 1900–1950 . Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press.

A detailed history on the education of African Americans in Philadelphia. The book illustrates how African Americans were purposefully denied a quality education because they were thought to be inferior to whites. It also shows that the type of schooling afforded to African Americans served more as an impediment to the group’s social advancement rather than as a resource.

Karier, Clarence J. 1972. Liberalism and the quest for orderly change. History of Education Quarterly 12.1: 57–80.

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Offered a sharp critique of liberalism as an ideology for social change and good with regard to schools, particularly when there is a crisis or difficult situation. The essay is the first of its kind to offer a critical assessment of John Dewey, the Progressive Era, and the limited impact schools have had in addressing systemic and structural problems in society.

Karier, Clarence J., Paul C. Violas, and Joel Spring. 1973. Roots of crisis: American education in the twentieth century . Chicago: Rand McNally.

This book offers a revisionist history of education in the first half of the 20th century. It challenges established interpretations that important personalities and milestones in education in the United States were not producers of social good, but instead were producers and maintainers of social control. This book quickly became the standard for revisionist educational history.

Katz, Michael. 1976. The origins of public education: A reassessment. History of Education Quarterly 16.4: 381–407.

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This article offers a revisionist critique and response to scholars opposed to Katz’s interpretation and findings in The Irony of Early School Reform ( Katz 1968 , cited under 1960–1980 ). It offers additional interpretation as to why and how public schools in the United States were established and what outcomes can be ascertained from their development and maintenance.

Webber, Thomas L. 1978. Deep Like the Rivers: Education in the Slave Quarter Community, 1831–1865 . New York: W. W. Norton.

First comprehensive study of the formal and informal education of enslaved African Americans during the antebellum era.

Contemporaries of revisionist historians were quick to respond and defend their historical interpretations that proffered schooling as essentially the quintessential hallmark of American democracy. Historians such as Jill Conway, Lawrence Cremin, Edward Krug, and Diane Ravitch argued that schooling contributed to a more productive economy, gave the average citizen greater access to resources and opportunities, and alleviated societal ills (see Conway 1974 , Cremin 1970 , Cremin 1980 , Krug 1972 , Ravitch 1974 , and Ravitch 1978 ). Despite the limited progress some groups in the United States had achieved, schools were not the primary culprit of their underdevelopment, according to these historians; instead, it was the very reason many individuals within these marginalized groups achieved economic and social mobility. Schools were a story of democracy at its best, of places where opportunities abounded if one applied one’s talents, and of places that defined the very meaning of societal progress. Without schools there would be no societal advancement, so schools, according to traditionalists, were not as detrimental as the revisionists wrote. Notwithstanding this belief, the challenge for traditionalist historians was that as primary source evidence became increasingly available, and as people from historically marginalized or denied populations demanded their histories be written and told, it became nearly impossible to adhere to the interpretation that schools did more good than harm in remedying the needs and wants of these, and many other, groups in American society. As such, fewer and fewer histories were written from this perspective in the decades that followed.

Conway, Jill K. 1974. Perspectives on the history of women’s education in the United States. History of Education Quarterly 14.1: 1–12.

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Offers a brief overview of the early educational opportunities of women in the United States. The article is part of a themed issue in the Quarterly on “Reinterpreting Women’s Education.”

Cremin, Lawrence A. 1970. American education: The colonial experience, 1607–1783 . New York: Harper & Row.

The first of a three-volume synthesis of the history of American education. The books adheres to the argument that American culture—an American Paideia —defined how schools and democracy, writ large, would be developed in colonial America and beyond.

Cremin, Lawrence A. 1980. American education: The national experience, 1783–1876 . New York: Harper & Row.

The second of Cremin’s three-volume synthesis on the history of American education. Despite the greater emphasis on specificity of example and analysis in other contemporary histories of education, the book still adheres to a broad definition and interpretation of education. This interpretive framework made it difficult to assess the strengths and limitations of schooling in the United States during this time period.

Krug, Edward A. 1972. The shaping of the American high school, 1920–1941 . Madison, WI: Univ. of Wisconsin Press.

Offers one of the earliest and most complete histories of the rise of the high school during the Progressive Era.

Ravitch, Diane. 1974. The great school wars: New York City, 1805–1973; A history of the public schools as battlefield of social change . New York: Basic Books.

Details the early educational history of the denouncement of the common school model in New York City. The book highlights the influential work of Catholic Bishop John Hughes, who singlehandedly defended the culture and religion of Irish Catholics in the city, the rise of parochial education as an alternative to public schooling, and how New York City public schools evolved in the 20th century.

Ravitch, Diane. 1978. The revisionists revised: A critique of the radical attack on the schools . New York: Basic Books.

A series of essays that challenge contemporary histories written by historians critical of historical scholarship, and emphasizing the progress schooling historically had on society.

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Providing a wide-ranging, critical and up-to-date introduction to the history of education, this book explores its true meaning and value for education studies. With no assumption of prior knowledge, it considers key themes, individuals and situations in depth, highlighting the specific ways in which current educational practice is historically conditioned or, conversely, has been very different in other times and places and, by implication, might be different in the future. Chapters cover a diverse range of key topics, such as:

• the history of ‘big ideas’, such as liberal education
• the impact of state intervention on education
• the effects of imperialism
• the education of orators in ancient Rome
• the impact of Covid policies on British education
• the history of individual subjects, such as Geography
• the development of educational sectors

Accessible and engaging chapters model a range of critical approaches to the past, while discussion questions challenge the reader to consider links with the present.

New Studies in the History of Education introduces the sub-discipline to students of Education Studies and will help students and tutors to develop a more in-depth and critical understanding of the history of education, supporting them to develop their own historical awareness.

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Chapter | 6  pages, introduction, chapter 1 | 13  pages, why study the history of education, chapter 2 | 13  pages, liberal education, chapter 3 | 16  pages, how concepts of femininity have influenced the education of girls and women in england, 1800 to 1988, chapter 4 | 11  pages, mass education, chapter 5 | 23  pages, the transformation of scientific and geographical education in eighteenth century england, chapter 6 | 13  pages, the lax family of staindrop and the making of a teaching dynasty, chapter 7 | 9  pages, quintilian's educational impact, chapter 8 | 11  pages, imperialism and english schools, chapter 9 | 10  pages, documentary visions of the secondary modern school, chapter 10 | 11  pages, independent schools, chapter 11 | 19  pages, the history of special education in england, chapter 12 | 15  pages, adult to adult in loco parentis.

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NEW YORK (CBS) - Students in one school district are learning history and civics in a new way.

The sixth graders at PS 315 in New York City are immersed in comic books in the middle of class, but the superheroes in these comic books don't fly, or spin spiderwebs. They are famous civic leaders and historical figures, a tool their teacher, Ruth Duran-Chea, is using to teach history.

"It comes to life for them, and it has some of the emotion that they want to out of history, they don’t want it to be just facts and information," Duran-Chea said.

The graphic novels were created by "Civics For All." part of New York City Public Schools. They're drawn by top artists in the comic book industry. There are books on activism, Asian-American history, and democracy- all told through vivid, colorful pictures.

"Graphic novel and comics are way better because it’s more engaging and it hooks the reader more," said one student.

Duran-Chea says she's never seen her students this excited about reading. "The second I put them out, they start disappearing from my desk. So that speaks for itself," she said.

New York schools have printed 25 comics, with two million copies so far, making them one of the largest comic publishers in the country.

Jenna Ryall, director of Civics for All, says it's a lesson plan other school districts could follow. "The traditional textbook is not the only way to get the information that we want our students to have to them," she said.

The school district says the comics won't replace textbooks, but are being used as an additional way to get kids engaged in reading.

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"It was an honor to work with ISTE again to update this book. As our digital world continues to evolve, so must our approach to teaching vital skills like digital safety, media and information literacy, digital health and wellbeing, civic engagements, and social responsibility," said Mattson. "I am grateful for the innovative educators who trusted me to share their work with a wider audience and look forward to working with even more teachers who are ready to emphasize digital citizenship skills in their classrooms."

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In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than 3.5 million enslaved people living in Confederate states to be “forever free.” It wasn’t until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX, on June 19 two years later, however, that the enslaved first learned of their freedom. That date became known as Juneteenth, first celebrated in 1866, first declared a federal holiday in 2021. This book list is a Juneteenth commemoration in the form of fiction and nonfiction about its history and the long-standing implications of enslavement and the Jim Crow era.

In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than 3.5 million enslaved people living in Confederate states to be “forever free.” It wasn’t until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX, on June 19 two years later, however, that the enslaved first learned of their freedom. That date became known as Juneteenth, first celebrated in 1866, first declared a federal holiday in 2021. This book list is a Juneteenth commemoration in the form of fiction and nonfiction about its history and the long-standing implications of enslavement and the Jim Crow era.  These titles, and those selected from previous years, are available as a downloadable spreadsheet.

Falade, David Wright. Black Cloud Rising. Grove. Feb. 2022. 304p. ISBN 9780802159199. Historical

Harris, Nathan. The Sweetness of Water. Little, Brown. Jun. 2021. 368p. ISBN 9780316461276. African American & Black / Historical

Jones, Gayl. Palmares. Beacon. Sept. 2021. 504p. ISBN 9780807033494. African American & Black / Historical

Larsen, Nella. Beyond "Passing": The Further Writings of Nella Larsen. CSRC Storytelling. Sept. 2021. 212p. ISBN 9781955382144. Classics

Watson, Ruth P. A Right Worthy Woman. Atria. Jun. 2023. 304p. ISBN 9781668003022. African American & Black / Historical

Commander, Michelle D. & Schomberg Center. Unsung: Unheralded Narratives of American Slavery & Abolition. Penguin Classics. Feb. 2021. 656p. ISBN 9780143136088. Literary Collections / American / African American & Black

Davis, Thulani. The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom. Duke Univ. Jun. 2022. 464p. ISBN 9781478018193. Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies

Hunter, Marcus Anthony. Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation. Amistad. Feb. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9780063004726. History / African American & Black

Taylor, Nicole A. Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations. S. & S. May. 2022. 288p. ISBN 9781982176211. Cooking / Regional & Cultural / American

Williams, Kidada E. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. Bloomsbury. Jan. 2023. 384p. ISBN 9781635576634. History / African American & Black

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