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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974819013Author Donald D LandonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Moon City PressPublisher Moon City PressWeight(grams) 2109g

Mariolina Salvatori presents an anthology of documents that examine the evolution of American education in the nineteenth century and meaning of the word pedagogy.Book InformationISBN 9780822958222Author Mariolina Rizzi SalvatoriFormat PaperbackPage...

An important historical account of Tuskegee University's significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide. Tuskegee University is most commonly associated with its founding president, Booker T. Washington, the scientific...

Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck, and Company, first met in 1911 at a Chicago luncheon. By charting the lives of these two men both before and after the meeting, Stephanie...

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802060679Author Robin Sutton HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

This book will appeal to higher education, public policy, and public administration scholars in Canada and the United States. Provincial education policy makers and college and university administrators will also find it of interest.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472109661Author Lee AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

Examines American discourse on education and what it reveals about our values as a society.Book InformationISBN 9780472105366Author Margaret J. MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of...

Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds traces the rise of the great American universities through their formative years, 1862-1920, and examines their impact on the evolution of American society and government. An evocative political history, Nemec's work...

Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted...

In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citizens...

This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. The founding...

Literacy historians have credited the Protestant mandate to read scripture, as well as Protestant schools, for advances in American literacy. This belief, however, has overshadowed other important efforts and led to an incomplete understanding of our...

What effect has feminism had on Canadian education since the 1970 Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and to what end? Transforming Conversations explores post-commission feminist thought and action in the contexts of primary, secondary,...

As commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education from 1953 to 1978, Arch Ford served under five governors. His vision was to expand educational opportunities because he believed education was the foundation for improving people's lives. Throughout...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959000044Author Sol GittlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Vesto BooksPublisher Vesto Books

Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge explores the museums, libraries, and special collections of the University of Michigan on its bicentennial. Since its inception, U-M has collected and preserved objects: biological and geological specimens;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472111510Author Glen PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978810068Author Dionne DannsFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 450g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487553845Author David J KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a...

All Souls College in Oxford is a unique academic institution and has had a unique history. But its history has been little known and its fortunes in the period 1600-1850 have been viewed, if at all, through the eyes of the Victorian university...

Figuring out the many new terms confronting international students at German-language universities can be difficult. Even if the degree program is in English, most administrative work has to be done in German, and the bureaucratic university jargon is a...

This collection of essays studies the provincial and the rural, locating the sites of the community and family as producing other histories. The volume is divided into three parts: the first part engages with disabling practices of history within...

History of Universities XXXVI/1 contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education.Book InformationISBN 9780198883685Author Robin Darwall-SmithFormat...

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. Educating the Enemy begins with the 144 children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810127906Author Stephanie DeutschFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University PressWeight(grams)...

Traces the emergence and marketing of sex education texts —from a single tract, written by a medical researcher and given free to anyone, to a thriving commercial enterprise. It tells the story of how sex education moved from private conversation to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888754298Author Rui YangFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University Press

The history of African teacher training in Natal is one of the most neglected and under-researched aspects of educational history. This book attempts to set out the administrative history of this field as a first step in stimulating the further research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487544799Author Theodore Michael ChristouFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870206153Author Susan Apps-BodillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute presents the story of how one of the preeminent--and historically conservative--private institutions of black higher education came to play an important part in the struggle for full racial equality. Hoda...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942961058Author Adam SanchezFormat PaperbackPage Count 181Imprint Rethinking SchoolsPublisher Rethinking Schools

Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted...

How has the Hotchkiss School managed to accommodate a hundred years of unprecedented change—a century during which horse-and-buggy trails have become less familiar than the fiery trails of space-bound vehicles, and Victorian propriety has yielded to...

An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges--Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard--Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges' architectural,...

The 2010 national midterm elections produced Republican majorities in Tennessee for the first time since Reconstruction. In the wake of that election, leaders of the Shelby County Schools (SCS) school district began legislative maneuvering to advance a...

This second and final volume of the U.S. Study of Education in Japan provides ten articles on a wide variety of topics.Book InformationISBN 9780939512553Author Robert LeestmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher...