Inequity in education : a historical perspective / edited by Debra Meyers and Burke Miller.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Meyers, Debra, 1956-
• Miller, Burke, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Educational equalization--United States--History.
• Education--Social aspects--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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. This exciting 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.

Contents:

• Contents; Introduction; Ch01. The Unequal Status ofChildren in AmericanEducational History:Historiographical Reflectionsand Theoretical Possibilities; Ch02. The Cornerstone of theRepublic: George Washingtonand the National University; Ch03. No Acknowledged Standard:The Female SeminaryCurriculum of the EarlyNineteenth Century; Ch04. The Training an OrphanRequires: Education inNineteenth-Century NewYork City Orphan Asylums; Ch05. The Idea of Integration inthe Age of Horace Mann; Ch06. The Race Problem andAmerican Education in theEarly Twentieth Century
• Ch07. Vocational Education, WorkCulture, and the Children ofEuropean Immigrants duringthe 1930sCh08. The "Separate but Equal"Schools of MonongaliaCounty, West Virginia's CoalMining Communities; Ch09. Christian Day Schoolsand the Transformation ofConservative EvangelicalProtestant EducationalActivism, 1962-1990; Ch10. The Austin T.E.A. Party:Homeschooling Controversyin Texas, 1986 -1994; Ch11. Changing Visions for JesuitHigh Schools in America: TheCase of Campion Jesuit HighSchool, 1965 -1975; Ch12. The National EducationAssociation: Champion ofEquality in Education orRoadblock to Change?
• IndexAbout the Contributors

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-282-49427-9
• 9786612494277
• 0-7391-3399-3

OCLC:

665836435