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1620
Peter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times’ 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower Compact in 1620."1620 is a dispassionate, clear reminder that the best in America’s past is still ...
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A college of her own
A College of Her Own offers a comprehensive and lively narrative of Barnard from its beginnings to the present day. Through the stories of presidents and leading figures as well as students and faculty, Robert McCaughey recounts Barnard’s history and development.
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A contested terrain
A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equalityThis book examines the educational experiences of Black North Carolinians during the American Civil War and Reconstruction period, 1861–1877. By highlighting the collaborative efforts that le...
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A history of bilingual education in the us
This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the role of politics in policy development and implementation. It introduces readers to past systemic supports for creation of diverse bilingual educational programs and situates particular instances and phases of expansion an...
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A light in dark times
Judith Friedlander reconstructs the history of the New School in the context of ongoing debates over academic freedom, intellectual dissidents, and democratic education. She tells a dramatic story of academic, political, and financial struggle through brief sketches of New School administrators, ...
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A student workbook for land of hope
A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home.Workbook for High School Students studying Land of HopeThis workbook accompanies Land of Hope This Student Workbook for Wilfred M. McClay's Land of Hope: An Invitation ...
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A student workbook for land of hope
A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home.Workbook for Students studying the Young Readers Edition of Land of Hope. Middle School — Grades 6-8The FIRST Student Workbook to accompany the two-volume Young Readers...
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A time to stir
For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the Columbia University campus. A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion with more than sixty essays that shed light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960...
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African universities from medieval to post-modern
Chapters challenge dominant colonial and Eurocentric narratives by tracing the history of African higher education. Reclaiming medieval and indigenous epistemologies, it reframes the decolonization agenda as a practical strategy for institutional transformation, curriculum reform, and policy design.
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After brown
The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of how Brown's most visible effect--contact betwe...
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American educational history journal vol 49 issue 1 & 2
The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed research journal examining educational topics from diverse disciplinary perspectives. It promotes scholarly dialogue across backgrounds, including political science, history, curriculum, and teacher education.
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American higher education since world war ii
A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher educationIn the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides an in-depth hist...
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Anarchism and education
While there have been historical accounts of the anarchist school movement, there has been no systematic work on the philosophical underpinnings of anarchist educational ideas—until now. Anarchism and Education offers a philosophical account of the neglected tradition of anarchist thought on educ...
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Anarchist education and the modern school
On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defense argued that h...
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Annual review of comparative and international education 2013
This inaugural volume is a forum for stakeholders and scholars to examine current trends and identify future directions in comparative and international education, using several essays as a context for discussion and analysis.
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Bad faith
Bad Faith recounts the history of the Rapp-Coudert investigation into communist subversion in the public schools and municipal colleges of New York City, lasting from 1940 to 1942. This study explores how prominent depression-era liberals, as they joined in accusing Communists of “bad faith” and...
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Between citizens and the state
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's cen...
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Beyond the notes
Beyond the Notes: Teaching and Learning Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities critically explores the historical, cultural, and pedagogical dimensions of music education at HBCUs.
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Building blocks
Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning, and working at kindergartens, schools, universities, and companies. This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materia...
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Changing the subject
This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers—emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post–Civil War era—pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870s. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard Colleg...
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College
The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still mattersAs the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year colle...
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Contemporary black urban music
This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.
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Continuous teacher education in russia
This is the definitive English language text on continuous teacher education, drawing on scholarly expertise in Russia and locating the policies and practices within a global reform of teacher education, providing new perspectives that will be of interest to education scholars, policymakers and p...
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Critical masses
How close reading developed as an essential tool of critical thinking and democratic citizenshipFor the past century, close reading has been seen as a specialized academic enterprise: the invention of professional scholars and critics. Yet in nineteenth-century Britain, the technique was widely f...
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Cultivating rural education
This edited volume delves into the complexities of rural life and its implications for teaching and learning. It addresses the diversity within rural communities, views rurality as a context rather than a deficit, and explores ways to leverage rural assets.
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Curriculum windows
This book explores how curriculum texts and theorists from the 2000s can inform modern education. The authors examine key works from the era, offering insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership. This reflection helps educators address current challenges by learning from past theories and ...
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Curriculum windows
This book examines how curriculum texts and theorists from the 1950s can inform contemporary education. The authors explore how these works offer insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership, helping educators reflect on past and future practices to address current educational challenges.
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Educating harlem
Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation’s most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community desp...
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Educational reconstruction
Book explores the post-Civil War creation of African American public schools in Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. Urban African Americans and their partners redefined American citizenship, created essential educational resources, and ensured that children had access to a quality education ...
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English educational policy
The book addresses contemporary ideological discourses concerning education in the United Kingdom. It provides a synthetic analysis of the roots of the political changes in education in the UK from the tenth to the first decade of the twenty-first century, with particular emphasis on the last hun...
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Free city!
Free City! The Fight for San Francisco’s City College and Education for All tells the story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free college measure in the US. In 2012, the accreditor sanctioned City College of S...
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From a dutch colony to a new zealand classroom
From a Dutch Colony to a New Zealand Classroom: The Teaching Story of Will Potter tells the personal and teaching story of one post-primary commerce teacher - Will Potter - who taught in New Zealand from 1958 until 1976. He was also Jacqui Burne’s father.
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Giants in the nursery
A biographical history of the evolution of Developmentally Appropriate Practice, written by best-selling early childhood author David Elkind, PhD
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Gymnastics of the mind
This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and w...
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Haste to rise
Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses—and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and...
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Helping to light the way
Helping to Light the Way addresses a long standing imbalance in social studies education. While the C3 Framework has energized classrooms and scholarship—particularly around historical thinking—far less attention has been devoted to strengthening students’ reasoning in civics, economics, and geog...
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Her truth and service
Lucy Diggs Slowe (1885–1937) was one of the most remarkable and accomplished figures in the history of Black women’s higher education. Her Truth and Service showcases Slowe’s speeches, articles, and letters, illuminating her multifaceted accomplishments and unwavering dedication to the quest for ...
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Higher education’s labor upsurge
This is an essential resource for anyone who wants to understand, and join, the growing movement fighting for the future of higher education. In recent years, higher education has become one of the most militant sectors of the labor movement. From graduate workers to faculty, from the US to Brita...
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Historical development of teacher education in chile
From secondary-level origins, to its current university-based status, this book highlights the intermingling of policy with structural and process definitions of teacher education throughout Chilean history, up until recent market policies, to offer a comprehensive account of educational developm...
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Historical development of teacher education in finland
An important historical synthesis that tells us as much about the future of teacher preparation, and education’s role in society, as it does about how we got here.
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Historical perspectives on teacher preparation in aotearoa new zealand
This book documents and critiques the historical origins and historiography of schooling and teacher preparation in New Zealand. The country has a unique educational history, as the overview of the history and development of schools for the nation's children, both Pakeha (European) and Maori, wil...
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Hollywood or history?
This book addresses the limitations of teaching through film by offering practical lesson ideas, focusing on cartoons as a popular and adaptable visual media. It highlights the strengths of cartoons in teaching history and social studies, fostering critical thinking and civic mindedness.
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Hollywood or history?
This book continues the "Hollywood or History" strategy by using sitcoms to teach issue-centered curriculum in middle and high school. It helps students explore historical issues, relate them to their lives, and develop informed decisions. Aligned with the C3 framework, it aims to enhance critica...
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Hollywood or history?
This book focuses on using film to address themes of inequity and inequality in history, providing 30 lesson plans for grades 6-12. The book aims to help teachers tackle challenging topics related to gender, race, and socioeconomic status, connecting historical content to the present day.
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Hollywood or history?
This book addresses the challenges of teaching through Hollywood films by offering practical, classroom-ready lesson ideas. It aims to bridge theory and practice, using film to foster critical thinking and civic mindedness in social studies.
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Holocaust and human rights education
Educators and students face many questions when exploring the history of the Holocaust. This book addresses the ways in which we teach and learn about the Holocaust, applying sociological concepts and discussing the wider implications of the Holocaust on human rights and international law.
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Jerome bruner, meaning-making and education for conflict resolution
Myers offers an educational intervention that invites development of representations in response to difference. Presenting a new framework for examining controversy between worldviews and a method for creating space for difference, the book brings this into dialogue with education and research, ...
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