Inequity in Education A Historical Perspective

by Meyers, Debra; Miller, Burke

• ISBN13: 9780739133972
• ISBN10: 0739133977
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-29
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Inequity in Education represents the latest scholarship investigating issues of race, class, ethnicity, religion, gender, and national identity formation that influenced education in America throughout its history. Targeting sophisticated undergraduates along with graduate students and specialists, this exciting new collection will capitalize on the growing interest in the historical foundations of the problems facing our schools today. This collection of cutting-edge essays and primary source documents represents a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives that will appeal to both social and cultural historians as well as those who teach education courses, including introductory surveys and foundations courses.

Author Biography

Debra Meyers is director of integrative studies and associate professor of history at Northern Kentucky University. Burke Miller is assistant professor of history and content coordinator for secondary social studies at Northern Kentucky University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Unequal Status of Children in American Educational History: Historiographical Reflections and Theoretical Possibilities	p. 11
In Their Words: The Right to Control One's Learning	p. 26
The Cornerstone of the Republic: George Washington and the National University	p. 35
In Their Words: A National University	p. 50
No Acknowledged Standard: The Female Seminary Curriculum of the Early Nineteenth Century	p. 55
In Their Words: The Troy Female Seminary and Curriculum	p. 69
The Training an Orphan Requires: Education in Nineteenth-Century New York City Orphan Asylums	p. 79
In Their Words: Education in the Orphans Home and Asylum	p. 92
The Idea of Integration in the Age of Horace Mann	p. 101
In Their Words: Charles Sumner Argues School Equality	p. 115
The Race Problem and American Education in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 123
In Their Words: First Mohonk Conference on the Negro Question, 1890	p. 141
Vocational Education, Work Culture, and the Children of European Immigrants during the 1930s	p. 147
In Their Words: Max Weber	p. 159
The "Separate but Equal" Schools of Monongalia County, West Virginia's Coal Mining Communities	p. 165
In Their Words: African American Students in WPA Schools	p. 175
Christian Day Schools and the Transformation of Conservative Evangelical Protestant Educational Activism, 1962-1990	p. 183
In Their Words: Prayer and Bible in Public Schools	p. 201
The Austin T.E.A. Party: Homeschooling Controversy in Texas, 1986-1994	p. 211
In Their Words: The Houston Chronicle, June 16, 1994	p. 226
Changing Visions for Jesuit High Schools in America: The Case of Campion Jesuit High School, 1965-1975	p. 235
In Their Words: Document on Christian Education (Gravissimum Edeucationis), October 28, 1965	p. 248
The National Education Association: Champion of Equality in Education or Roadblock to Change?	p. 251
In Their Words: "Woman's Work in Education," 1885	p. 263
Index	p. 269
About the Contributors	p. 275
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