Authors:John D. Pulliam, James J. Van Patten,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: america, education, history
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-06-10
List price: $77.33
ISBN-10: 0131705466
ISBN-13: 9780131705463

This popular book provides future teachers a solid foundation in the history of American education, from its roots in European tradition, through the colonial period, to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Redesigned to highlight historical information throughout the book. Here are all of the important people, places, dates, events, and movements; along with a capsule presentation of the underlying principles of educational practice and straightforward, nonjudgmental coverage of all of the current controversies within our educational system. For future teachers.

Authors:Donald Parkerson, Jo Ann Pakerson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: education, history, teaching, studies, social, american, transitions
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2001-04
List price: $51.95
ISBN-10: 0815338252
ISBN-13: 9780815338253

This book is a concise social history of teaching from the colonial period to the present. By revealing the words of teachers themselves, it brings their stories to life. Synthesizing decades of research on teaching, it places important topics such as discipline in the classroom, technology, and cultural diversity within historical perspective.

Authors:Adam R. Nelson, John L. Rudolph,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: america, modern, print, culture, history, education
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-05-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0299236145
ISBN-13: 9780299236144

Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producer

Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: black, america, struggle, equality, education, board, justice, history, brown, simple
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 2004-04-13
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1400030617
ISBN-13: 9781400030613

Simple Justice is the definitive history of the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in this country. Combining intensive research with original interviews with surviving participants, Richard Kluger provides the fullest possible view of the human and legal drama in the years before 1954, the cumulative assaults on the white power structure that defended segregation, and the step-by-step establishment of a team of inspired black lawyers that could successfully challenge the law. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the unanimous Supreme Court decis

Author: Robert Bocking Stevens
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: legal, 1980s, studies, 1850s, history, america, school, education, law
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2001-09
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1584771992
ISBN-13: 9781584771999

Stevens, Robert. Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s.Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, [1983]. xvi, 334 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-199-2. Cloth. $85. Comprehensive history of over a century of legal education in America. Examines the law school institution and its impact on the legal profession and the society it serves. This highly lauded work won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association upon its original publication. Stevens’ distinguished career in education and law includes his seve

Author: Ann Gibson Winfield
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Keywords: conversation, complicated, book, series, studies, curriculum, memory, ideology, america, education, institutionalized, racism, history, implications, eugenics
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2007-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0820481467
ISBN-13: 9780820481463

Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics—an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic groups, the urban poor, rural "White trash," the sexually "deviant," Blacks, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, Latino/as, and anyone who did not fit with the pseudo-scientifically established "superior" Nordic race. Education leaders, complaining of children of "worm-eaten stock," established an endurin

Author: Arthur F. McClure
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Pre
Keywords: education, distributive, america, vocational, evolution, work, historical
Number of Pages: 165
Published: 1985-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 083863205X
ISBN-13: 9780838632055