Education : History

How did a college education become so vital to American notions of professional and personal advancement? Reared on the ideal of the self-made man, American ......

This book traces the evolution of women's leadership and its influence on the Montessori Method's development. New research illuminates the unique roles of t......

The first volume to examine the contributions of women who brought the forces of American progressivism and Jewish nationalism to formal and informal Jewish ......

This book examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools. Writ......

This book breaks new ground on how policymakers and journalists can fairly assess charter school performance. The editors and authors show how good approache......

This book demonstrates a balance between the principles and practice of multicultural education in the K-12 classroom, presenting multicultural education as ......

The case studies in this book describe the decisions and plans and the problems and possibilities middle and high school history teachers encountered as they......

Students will explore the contributions and challenges of African-Americans -- from early explorers to contemporary activists. Lessons focus on facts and int......

Cover all aspects of Black History with art activities, biographical information, projects, and more! Publisher: Family Education Network Illustration: N La......

In the early 1990s, Classics professor Mary Lefkowitz discovered that one of her faculty colleagues at Wellesley College was teaching his students that Greek......

Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization's greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes th......

A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back to almost th......

This book is about the place of pedagogy and the role of intellectuals in medieval dissent. Focusing on the medieval English heresy known as Lollardy, Rita C......

American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. During this period, U.S. colleges underwent fund......

Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length s......

Starting in the fall of 1997, the World Bank Institute organized a learning program on Intergovernmental Roles in the Delivery of Education Services in the C......

Books, Buildings, and Learning Outcomes examines the impact of World Bank-supported educational reforms introduced in Ghana since 1986 and related investment......

Recently emerging from a decade-long civil war, Sierra Leone is making a remarkable recovery. The future holds great promise as well as many challenges for t......

This book has three main recommendations. First, it is necessary to generate basic standards, quality goals, and quality measurement systems. Second, once qu......

"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is more and ......