History of education

A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education.

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Princeton University, leading educators and commentators participated in a symposium jointly sponsored by Princeton and The Andrew W.

The first comprehensive history of sex education around the worldToo Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education.

An authoritative one-volume history of the origins and development of American higher educationThis book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II.

How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West.

Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class.

The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v.

African Americans and Latinos earn lower grades and drop out of college more often than whites or Asians.

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.

Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.

Die Geschichte der Pornographie reicht weit in die Vergangenheit zurück und spiegelt dabei die kulturellen, sozialen und technologischen Entwicklungen der Gesellschaft wider.

Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates.

It is the richest, most influential, most powerful university in the world, but at the beginning of 2001, Harvard was in crisis.

The Roots of Educational Inequality chronicles the transformation of one American high school over the course of the twentieth century to explore the larger political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to the escalation of educational inequality in modern America.

James Freedman, the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, began life in a struggling middle-class Jewish family in a provincial industrial New Hampshire town.

The classic guide to one of America's architectural treasures-now with magnificent new color photos and a foreword by Princeton's dean of religious lifeLike the medieval English cathedrals that inspired it, the Princeton University Chapel is an architectural achievement designed to evoke wonder, awe, and reflection.

"e;A stunning and ambitious origins story.

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F.

A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher educationAmerican higher education is nearly four centuries old.

Johan Thoms (pronounced Yo-han Tomes) was born in Argona, a small town twenty-three miles south of Sarajevo, during the hellish depths of winter 1894.

The transborder modernization of Mexico and the American Southwest during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the lives of ethnic Mexicans across the political divide.

A wonderfully engaging and entertaining history of the great dons of the last two hundred years, by one of our leading historians of ideas.

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.

An in-depth biography of the Latin language from its very beginnings to the present day from the widely acclaimed author of 'Empires of the Word'.

Die systematische Auslöschung jüdischen Lebens in Wien durch die Nationalsozialisten zielte von Beginn an auch auf das vielfältige jüdische Schul- und Bildungswesen.

Spare the Rod traces the history of discipline in schools and its ever increasing integration with prison and policing, ultimately arguing for an approach to discipline that aligns with the moral community that schools could and should be.

A harrowing account of the profoundly consequential decisions American universities made about refugee scholars from Nazi-dominated Europe--a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book AwardThe United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was.

The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as “new media” of their era, provoking anxieties similar to our own about children and screens.

Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South.

A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities.

In this collection, contributors reflect on scholarly, artistic, activist, educational, and practical endeavor known as Appalachian Studies.

An Illinois Sampler presents personal accounts from faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and other contributors about their research and how it enriches and energizes their teaching.

This study of educational policy from Lyndon Johnson through Bill Clinton focuses on three specific issues--public school aid, non-public (especially Catholic) school aid, and school desegregation--that speak to the proper role of the federal government in education as well as to how education issues embody larger questions of opportunity, exclusion, and equality in American society.

When seeking approaches for sex education, few look to the past for guidance.

In 1968–69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements.

Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924, details the approaches and outcomes of sex-education initiatives in the Progressive Era.

An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education.

This book traces national policies behind the efforts of integrating education systems in Europe.

This book begins with the claims of policymakers and explores charter schools at each stage of the policymaking process, from legislation to implementation.

This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day.

The book narrates the story of how the school, founded by women pioneers of public education in a Rocky Mountain mining settlement, became the centre and sustaining force of the town's community life from its beginning in the 1870s to the present day.

This project proposes to look at the emergence of Black theology as a discipline within the academy and how Black theology may serve as a resource for excellence in teaching.

This is a lively account of one of the most important and overlooked themes in American education.

Interest by American educators in the Holocaust has increased exponentially during the second half of the twentieth century.

Boston s schools in 2006 won the Eli Broad Prize for the Most Improved Urban School System in America.

How have power and agency been revealed in educational issues involving minorities?

This collection of original essays examines the history of American education as it has developed as a field since the 1970s and moves into a post-revisionist era and looks forward to possible new directions for the future.