History of education

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.

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An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.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

An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education.

An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education.

From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power but in urban school districts and classrooms.

If free market advocates had total control over education policy, would the shared public system of education collapse?

Was treibt den Menschen an, dem eigenen Leben einen Sinn zu verleihen?

The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's.

Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in Texas with the educational disadvantages faced by Mexican American students living in the same city.

A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coedAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time.

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

Chris Runeckles' Making Every History Lesson Count: Six principles to support great history teaching offers lasting solutions to age-old problems and empowers history teachers with the confidence to bring their subject to life.

The relationship between a town and its local institutions of higher education is often fraught with turmoil.

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

The World Today Series: Russia and Eurasia deals with twelve sovereign states that became independent following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.

Der belgische Reformpädagoge Ovide Decroly (1871-1932) leis-tet mit seinen Forschungen einen herausragenden Beitrag für eine Erziehung als Wissenschaft.

Choice Outstanding TitleEducation is intimately connected to many of the most important and contentious questions confronting American society, from race to jobs to taxes, and the competitive pressures of the global economy have only enhanced its significance.