item: #1 of 97 id: ch-1481 author: Weber, Carolyn A.; Frye, Julie Marie; Ables, Connie J.; Goodman, Dr. Jesse title: Curriculum and the 1970s Culture Wars: Man a Course of Study date: 2017 words: 8846 flesch: 53 summary: Children are almost never asked to understand the unfamiliar or delve into questions such as what it means to be human as MACOS curriculum encouraged. While this ideal is central for scholarship, MACOS educators would have done well to be more sensitive to the intended audience of this curriculum. keywords: bruner; children; culture; curriculum; dow; education; educators; macos; materials; new; press; public; schools; students; studies; teachers; york cache: ch-1481.pdf plain text: ch-1481.txt item: #2 of 97 id: ch-2154 author: Schul, James title: Schism in the Schoolhouse: The Tenuous Relationship between Social Scientists and Educationists within the AHA Commission on the Social Studies (1929-1934) date: 2014 words: 5014 flesch: 52 summary: A noticeable omission in Krey‟s assessment of the education field was Horn despite his long standing efforts in the field of social studies education and worthwhile work in the area of spelling education. Horn also had a strong interest in social studies education and served as a member of the National Council for the Social Studies. keywords: commission; education; field; horn; krey; school; studies; summary; university; volume cache: ch-2154.pdf plain text: ch-2154.txt item: #3 of 97 id: ch-2307 author: Salmela, Sauli title: On the scholastic background of the Lockean concept of the knowing subject date: 2014 words: 6499 flesch: 54 summary: To Conclude From the view of curriculum theory, Locke was a follower of the scholastic Aristotelian tradition in that like Aquinas Locke spoke up for the idea of man as an autonomous knower and learner. In addition to being a common basis for American and German educational theories, there culminate many ideas with origins in the Medieval or Ancient times (regarding virtues, faculty psychology, empiricism etc.) in Locke. keywords: aquinas; aristotelian; aristotle; century; curriculum; education; ideas; locke; new; philosophy; species; theory; way cache: ch-2307.pdf plain text: ch-2307.txt item: #4 of 97 id: ch-331 author: Burlbaw, Lynn M. title: Building Walls: Limiting Innovation through Self-Imposed Boundaries date: 2008 words: 4683 flesch: 63 summary: Students who had previous experience with the instructor were less inhibited in their responses; but their products (2-15, 3-6) were no more elaborate than those made by students who were encountering the instructor for the first time. Student responses to the questions were read and key words or phrases were typed into a table that was printed for analysis. keywords: assignment; course; curriculum; instructions; paper; responses; students; teachers cache: ch-331.pdf plain text: ch-331.txt item: #5 of 97 id: ch-332 author: Chlup, Dominique T. title: Intended Practice: The Curriculum at the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women, 1932-1957 date: 2008 words: 6059 flesch: 49 summary: Given what I know of contemporary prison programming women, it is hard to believe that this figure is as high as 87%, but what is believable is that substantial barriers do exist that keep women from participating in correctional education programs. This paper discusses the role of women inmates as historical agents active in curriculum development at the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women at Framingham during the 1930s, 40, and 50s. keywords: box; education; folder; framingham; inmates; justice; papers; prison; programs; reformatory; van; waters; women cache: ch-332.pdf plain text: ch-332.txt item: #6 of 97 id: ch-334 author: Rubin, Robert Daniel title: The Reagan-Era Right and the Fight for ‘Religious’ Equality in the Classroom date: 2008 words: 5244 flesch: 54 summary: The Jaffree intervenors argued that the real victims of religious discrimination were not Ishmael Jaffree’s three children but the countless boys and girls forced by Mobile public schools to endure and assimilate teachings from a religion that violated the core 24 precepts of the “traditional” Biblical Christianity that their own families lived by. The Court’s prohibition against religious expression in public schools “is undemocratic,” he told the court, because it allows “a small, select minority” to “impose their view on the people.” keywords: board; christian; humanism; intervenors; jaffree; mobile; new; religion; right; schools; values cache: ch-334.pdf plain text: ch-334.txt item: #7 of 97 id: ch-335 author: Stallones, Jared title: The Army Specialized Training Program and ‘Fast Track’ Professional Preparation date: 2008 words: 4738 flesch: 54 summary: Eighty percent of ASTP participants surveyed for one postwar study pursued more higher education after their initial ASTP experience. The program also helped the colleges and universities that participated by providing needed support as large numbers of students left school for the military, although this benefit should not be overstated as only one-third of U.S. institutions of higher education ever hosted ASTP students. keywords: army; astp; colleges; education; men; military; program; training; universities; war cache: ch-335.pdf plain text: ch-335.txt item: #8 of 97 id: ch-336 author: Thompkins, Renarta title: Reading Practices in African American Segregated Elementary Schools in the South: 1940-1970 date: 2008 words: 4489 flesch: 51 summary: Abstract: This study examined the instructional methods utilized by African American teachers in several segregated elementary schools in Georgia from 1940-1970. Using a cross-case analysis (Miles & Huberman, 1994) of the oral histories of six teachers’ experiences in teaching reading in 17 segregated elementary schools from 1940-1970, the following question was explored: What modes of literacy instruction did African American teachers use in segregated school settings? keywords: african; american; instruction; literacy; reading; schools; segregated; students; study; teachers cache: ch-336.pdf plain text: ch-336.txt item: #9 of 97 id: ch-349 author: Evans, Ronald W. title: This Happened in America: Harold Rugg and the Censure of Social Studies date: 2008 words: 5550 flesch: 56 summary: Criticism of the Rugg social studies textbooks and program materialized from the concerns of several individuals and groups who held a competing definition of “the American way” and a vision of America’s future quite different from the one advanced by Harold Rugg and other “frontier thinkers.” The Rugg story is also important today because social studies as a broad, interdisciplinary and issues-centered field is currently endangered: reports on classroom practice find a pattern of instruction focused on content acquisition and a fact-myth-legend approach to history; the revival of history and mania for standards and high stakes tests are increasing an emphasis upon traditional history and narrowing the range of issues and questions discussed in schools. keywords: american; controversy; critics; curriculum; education; issues; new; rugg; social; studies; textbooks cache: ch-349.pdf plain text: ch-349.txt item: #10 of 97 id: ch-452 author: Chilcoat, George W.; Ligon, Jerry A. title: A Social Studies Curriculum: Mississippi Freedom Schools date: 2009 words: 18620 flesch: 62 summary: Freedom school students were quite clear about this matter: the discrimination they encountered every day had little or nothing to do with them as individuals named Alice or Burdette or Clarie; it had everything to do with them as black people. As Freedom school students, we are helping in voter registration because we feel that the fight for freedom in Mississippi must be fought not only by the adults, but by the teenager. keywords: african; american; community; curriculum; discussion; education; experiences; freedom school; history; instruction; mississippi; mississippi freedom; movement; new; people; play; reel; rights; school students; school teachers; schools; shsw; sncc; students; studies; teachers; teaching; white cache: ch-452.pdf plain text: ch-452.txt item: #11 of 97 id: ch-453 author: Davis, O. L. title: Prelude to Professional Identity and Organization: American Public School Curriculum Workers date: 2009 words: 4967 flesch: 52 summary: Informality characterized these meetings of school curriculum workers. The program for the 1928 Boston meeting of school curriculum workers was densely crowded with presentations and discussions. keywords: curriculum; curriculum workers; group; loomis; meeting; newlon; school; school curriculum; society; university; workers cache: ch-453.pdf plain text: ch-453.txt item: #12 of 97 id: ch-454 author: Field, Sherry L. title: Scrap Drives, Stamp Sales, and School Spirit: Examples of Elementary Social Studies During World War II date: 2009 words: 8241 flesch: 63 summary: Elementary Social Studies In the Field of Battle: Applications in the Classroom A rich legacy of wartime efforts of school children has been recorded. Teachers and school children were enlisted into war bond and war stamp sales campaigns with resounding success. keywords: activities; children; community; education; elementary; flag; geography; grade; pupils; rationing; sales; school; social; stamps; studies; study; teachers; war; wartime; world cache: ch-454.pdf plain text: ch-454.txt item: #13 of 97 id: ch-455 author: Foshay, Arthur W. title: Action Research: An Early History in the U. S. date: 2009 words: 2733 flesch: 62 summary: Remembering the reluctance of classroom teachers to try someone else's practices, Corey suggested that the teachers be drawn in to the design of the classroom research, and that they participate in the gathering and interpretation of whatever data were collected. The 1957 Yearbook of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), Research for Curriculum Improvement, which I edited with James Hall, was largely devoted to action research. keywords: action; children; classroom; curriculum; research; teachers cache: ch-455.pdf plain text: ch-455.txt item: #14 of 97 id: ch-456 author: Rudnitski, Rose A. title: Patty Smith Hill and Democracy in the Kindergarten Curriculum date: 2009 words: 7205 flesch: 69 summary: Miss Hill was very vocal in her belief that young children had personalities and that they were capable, with the right teaching, of being taught to think for themselves. Miss Hill firmly believed that young children could learn democratic principles only if they were involved in democratic group situations. keywords: children; college; hill; kindergarten; miss; miss hill; patty; play; russell; school; smith; teachers; work cache: ch-456.pdf plain text: ch-456.txt item: #15 of 97 id: ch-457 author: Wilhelm, Ronald W. title: ESPANA NUESTRA: the Molding of Primary School Children for a Fascist Spain date: 2009 words: 6751 flesch: 59 summary: HEl rio Ebro es el baluarte contra la invasion musulmana en Arag6n, y el de Zaragoza contra Napole6n, y el de nuestros combatientes nacionales contra los rojos (p. 83).28 In addition to the cover illustration, the Falangist symbol of five arrows bound together under the yoke (el haz y el yugo) appears five more times, usually to signify the end of a major section of the book. keywords: author; caballero; children; civil; con; espana; falangist; franco; gimenez; gimenez caballero; history; ideology; los; new; nuestra; que; spain; spanish; text; war cache: ch-457.pdf plain text: ch-457.txt item: #16 of 97 id: ch-476 author: Cruikshank, Kathleen title: Toward Interdisciplinarity: Approaches to the Disciplines From the 1890s date: 2009 words: 834 flesch: 43 summary: Geography, which he had conceived in 1869 as providing the techniques for natural history through physical geography, was in 1888 more specifically the door to meteorology, astronomy, geology, botany, and zoology, the disciplinary descendants of natural history. I History was one of the five windows in the five­ sided dark tower of ignorance II of illiterate man, the others being arithmetic, geography, grammar, and literature. keywords: history cache: ch-476.pdf plain text: ch-476.txt item: #17 of 97 id: ch-554 author: Santora, Ellen Durrigan title: Bridging Differences in Culture and Class: The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry date: 2009 words: 983 flesch: 44 summary: In 1903, the Women's Trade Union Leagne (WTUL) was ,sttbllshed by middle and upper class, educated women to aid in the formation of unions that would be responsive to the needs of women, particularly immigrant women.18 With the support of the WlUL, between 1909 and 1915 women garment workers of the Dortheast and midwest burst forth with an unprecedented labor nrilitmcy ignited by Ib, walkout offrorn 20,000 to 30,000 young s~,ist makers, most 0: them Russian Jewish and Italian women pro,ting low wages anc sweatshop conditions. Women workers came from the Northeast, the Far West and the South, from the North Central States, the Mountain States, and the Appalachian region. keywords: school; women; workers cache: ch-554.pdf plain text: ch-554.txt item: #18 of 97 id: ch-564 author: Davis, Matthew D. title: Behind-the-Scenes Ally: The GEB, Southern Black High Schools, and Inter-War Curriculum Reform date: 2009 words: 5204 flesch: 52 summary: Even the top GEB officials seemed curiously tentative about taking the out-front position on Negro high schools.22 Indeed, the GEB’s Annual Reports were generally silent about the State Agents’ advocacy of Negro high school accreditation throughout the interwar period.23 This group of influential officials, the “interlocking directorate,” therefore, stalled on the issue of Negro high schools. Accreditation of black high schools, using the same standards set for schools attended by whites, constituted a primary agenda item for these activists.1 The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (NATCS), later the American Teachers Association, led the fight. keywords: accreditation; agents; davis; education; fund; geb; high; negro; new; schools; southern; state cache: ch-564.pdf plain text: ch-564.txt item: #19 of 97 id: ch-574 author: Kysilka, Marcella L.; Luckett, Judith D. title: Studying Educational Foundations: A Century of Critical Issues in Education date: 2009 words: 113 flesch: 65 summary: Principles of Modern Education. U. S. Department of Education. keywords: education cache: ch-574.pdf plain text: ch-574.txt item: #20 of 97 id: ch-5927 author: Beyer, Carl Kalani title: Curricular Innovations in Hawaiian Female Seminaries date: 2014 words: 8261 flesch: 61 summary: While the primary motivation for educating Hawaiian girls in private boarding schools was to improve their character, there was also beginning to be more concern about providing the graduates of female schools with the means of a livelihood as well. 50 Kawaiahao Seminary: At the close of the first twenty years of its history, with the brief history of other schools for girls. keywords: american; boarding; education; female; girls; government; hawaiian; honolulu; missionaries; missionary; school; seminaries; seminary; students; training cache: ch-5927.pdf plain text: ch-5927.txt item: #21 of 97 id: ch-5937 author: Jorgensen, Gregg title: JOHN DEWEY’S PREOCCUPATION WITH OCCUPATIONS: FROM SAVAGE MIND TO DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION date: 2014 words: 5682 flesch: 49 summary: Dewey believed that the study of occupations was the vehicle to meet students‘ interests as well as present needs of growth only 24 if occupation study was ―pursued under conditions where the realization of the activity rather than merely the external product is the aim‖ (p. 362). My purpose will be to make sense of the rationale behind Dewey‘s study 16 of occupations concept—that is, the importance that knowledge of occupations plays in our understanding of mankind and as a useful concept for curriculum building in schools. keywords: activities; curriculum; dewey; dewey‘s; education; occupations; school; society; study cache: ch-5937.pdf plain text: ch-5937.txt item: #22 of 97 id: ch-5938 author: Blankenship, Whitney title: True Believer: The Progressivism of Willard Goslin date: 2014 words: 5399 flesch: 54 summary: The Early Years: Webster Grove Goslin began his career in the rural school districts of Missouri, quickly rising in the ranks to become a principal at age 22, followed a year later with his appointment as superintendent for the Slater, Missouri, school district. Goslin acted upon his conviction that school districts needed to move away from a strictly “top down” administration in which administrators were isolated from classroom teachers and secondary teachers were isolated from elementary teachers. keywords: american; community; education; goslin; goslin‟s; pasadena; program; public; school; teachers; time cache: ch-5938.pdf plain text: ch-5938.txt item: #23 of 97 id: ch-608 author: Canter, Anna Rudolph title: Special Education for Exceptional Children: The History of the Special Education Program at the Science Academy of South Texas 1957-2003 date: 2009 words: 5403 flesch: 62 summary: The district began educating special education students as its primary goal, and that history continued with the opening of each school in the district, including the Science Academy. In a Five Year Vision Plan created by STISD in 1991, the district explained its goals for special education students and the LRE. keywords: academy; education; help; program; school; science; stisd; students; texas cache: ch-608.pdf plain text: ch-608.txt item: #24 of 97 id: ch-609 author: Kessinger, Thomas A. title: Global Education in the United States: A Retrospective, 1976-2000 date: 2009 words: 5140 flesch: 48 summary: This manuscript offers a look at various notions and definitions of global education, then identifies advocates for global education, and—in the process—reviews the literature of the movement from 1976-2000. According to Kniep (1985a), increased interest in global education first began in the United States in the 1960s. keywords: education; global; knowledge; new; perspective; students; studies; world; york cache: ch-609.pdf plain text: ch-609.txt item: #25 of 97 id: ch-610 author: Mayer, Susan Jean title: Developmental Theory and the Progressive Curriculum: Lessons from an Unheralded Success Story date: 2009 words: 4924 flesch: 47 summary: Jean Piaget and the Liberal Protestant Tradition. Entry on Jean Piaget. keywords: child; children; journal; judgment; piaget; psychology; reasoning; review cache: ch-610.pdf plain text: ch-610.txt item: #26 of 97 id: ch-611 author: O'Brien, Thomas V. title: Refining Racial Accommodationism in the Jim Crow South: The Case of Joseph W. Holley, Accommodationist or a Black Apostle of White Oppression? date: 2009 words: 2081 flesch: 62 summary: In his 43 years as president Holley called for differentiated curricula for the races, promoting industrial training and later vocational education. Holley is considered the most conservative black educator of his era. keywords: blacks; holley; new; school; south; university cache: ch-611.pdf plain text: ch-611.txt item: #27 of 97 id: ch-612 author: Spearman, Mindy title: Gifted Education in Houston, Texas: Curriculum Differentiation in the Early Twentieth Century date: 2009 words: 2499 flesch: 59 summary: Knowledge of special provisions for gifted students in Houston schools during the early years of the twentieth century adds significantly to the body of historical knowledge about early gifted education in the United States. During this period of time, Houston gifted students were identified in their classroom. keywords: children; hisd; houston; school; students cache: ch-612.pdf plain text: ch-612.txt item: #28 of 97 id: ch-613 author: Tan, May title: The History and Evolution of the English as a Second Language (ESL) Curriculum in Quebec date: 2009 words: 6842 flesch: 58 summary: Supreme court averts Quebec language fight (byline: Ingrid Peritz). As the contemporary demographic, socio-economic and political landscapes continue to change, it is almost a certainty that the ongoing dialogue and contest over the “when”, “how” and “how much” of teaching ESL in Quebec schools will continue to evolve. keywords: british; canada; children; curriculum; education; english; esl; french; identity; language; learning; new; quebec; school; students; teaching cache: ch-613.pdf plain text: ch-613.txt item: #29 of 97 id: ch-614 author: Tomlinson, Stephen title: Thomas Jefferson, Ideologue date: 2009 words: 11653 flesch: 51 summary: In his 1957 introduction to Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey claimed that French political philosophy had little influence on Jefferson. Encumbered by the demands of his office, Jefferson had little time to examine these works, especially, he later admitted to Adams, Tracy’s rather dense and dry epistemological tract, but he did write back expressing his gratitude for the honor they had bestowed upon him and his interest in their future practical and theoretical labors. keywords: adams; education; government; history; ideology; jefferson; knowledge; mind; moral; national; nature; new; schooling; schools; science; state; system; tracy; university; virginia cache: ch-614.pdf plain text: ch-614.txt item: #30 of 97 id: ch-615 author: Tomlinson, Stephen title: Robert Owen and the Psychological Monitor date: 2009 words: 8450 flesch: 54 summary: As for pedagogy, Combe embraced the methods employed at New Lanark and promised to establish a Normal School in order that the science of character formation could be refined and developed for other communities. Robert Owen and the Psychological Monitor 45 Robert Owen and the Psychological Monitor Stephen Tomlinson University of Alabama Socialism, as Robert Owen and his followers conceived it, was an experiment in human engineering. keywords: character; children; combe; community; education; members; nature; new; orbiston; owen; principles; reason; register; society; system; wednesday cache: ch-615.pdf plain text: ch-615.txt item: #31 of 97 id: ch-616 author: Watras, Joseph title: The Arts of Life and the Moraine Park School, 1916-1927 date: 2009 words: 3910 flesch: 56 summary: During the visit, Morgan hired a student of Kilpatrick’s, Laura A. Gillmore, to be the director of the primary division of Moraine Park School. These included forming a bank for student funds, setting up a store to sell school supplies, and establishing a print shop for school publications.11 While the idea of the projects as business enterprises was the unique aspect of Moraine Park School, this model seemed to prevent the students from following aesthetic orientations. keywords: dayton; education; life; moraine; moraine park; morgan; park; school; students cache: ch-616.pdf plain text: ch-616.txt item: #32 of 97 id: ch-617 author: Zuhdi, Muhammad title: Indonesian Islamic Schools’ Curriculum History: From Independence to the New Order date: 2009 words: 5490 flesch: 48 summary: The changing features of Indonesian Islamic schools throughout the country’s history indicated that both of the 64 politics and social changes have a significant influence to the evolution of curriculum. By Islamic school I mean a formal education institution in which Islam is the only religion officially taught as a belief, and which maintains Islamic practices as part of the school’s regulations. keywords: curriculum; education; government; indonesian; islamic; islamic schools; madrasah; muslim; religious; schools cache: ch-617.pdf plain text: ch-617.txt item: #33 of 97 id: ch-6174 author: Gresham, Gloria; Black, Linda; Welsh, Kimberly title: A LONGSTANDING COMMITMENT TO LAB SCHOOLS AND CONSTRUCTIVIST-BASED CURRICULUM: ONE UNIVERSITY’S STORY date: 2014 words: 6281 flesch: 56 summary: This group saw a partnership between the public school where a lab setting was displayed; university professors and public school teachers worked together to prepare teacher educators. What if there was a cooperative lab setting that provided the training facilities for the university students and at the same time provide a model of effective teaching practices that public school teachers could observe first-hand and implement in their own classrooms? keywords: austin; charter; children; echl; education; lab; school; sfasu; state; stephen; students; teacher; texas; university cache: ch-6174.pdf plain text: ch-6174.txt item: #34 of 97 id: ch-6368 author: Nash, Margaret A. title: Joe Ball Takes Up the Piano: Curriculum, Extracurricular Activities, and the Formation of Gender at Riverside Junior College, 1929-1941 date: 2014 words: 9224 flesch: 67 summary: This article examines references to gender in student newspapers and the yearbook and concludes that because students were concerned with raising the status of their college, and because far more men than women students attended, the marking of gender differences was less acute. I argue that because students as a group were concerned with raising the status of their junior college, and because throughout the decade far more men than women students attended the college, the marking of gender differences was less acute here than on other college campuses. keywords: arroyo; california; campus; college; education; gender; junior; masculinity; newspaper; october; rifle; riverside; rjc; rotc; school; students; university; women; year cache: ch-6368.pdf plain text: ch-6368.txt item: #35 of 97 id: ch-6373 author: Elfer, Charles Joseph title: Nature Study and the New Geography: Pre-Incarnations of Place-Based Educational Theory and Practice, ~ 1890-1920 date: 2014 words: 8951 flesch: 51 summary: Insect study, local geography study, the field excursion, school garden work, and specimen catalogues all became relatively standard practices in the place-based reform initiatives surrounding nature study and the new geography. In addition to systematically detailing connections between nature study, the new geography, and place-based curricular tenets, the paper discusses the ways in which deeper historical understanding might inform contemporary practice. keywords: american; community; curriculum; education; geography; geography education; movement; nature; nature study; new; place; practice; reform; school; study cache: ch-6373.pdf plain text: ch-6373.txt item: #36 of 97 id: ch-6377 author: Morice, Linda C. title: The Making of a Progressive Educator: Flora White’s Letters from Africa (1885-87) date: 2014 words: 7560 flesch: 69 summary: Hattie had suffered a “breakdown,” and Flora resigned her teaching job in a Springfield public elementary school to lend assistance (Flora White to Harriet M. White and Mary A. White, 6 June, 1887). Sources and methodology Primary sources for the paper include letters Flora White wrote to her widowed mother, Harriet M. White, and sister, Mary A. White, who resided in Springfield, Massachusetts, when Flora lived and traveled in the Cape Colony. keywords: child; education; flora; harriet; harriet m.; home; letter; m. white; mary; new; school; white cache: ch-6377.pdf plain text: ch-6377.txt item: #37 of 97 id: ch-6867 author: Lauzon, Glenn Paul title: Curricula for the Country: Farmers’ Institutes in Indiana, 1890-1910 date: 2014 words: 7663 flesch: 48 summary: He was well aware, too, that local farmers resented nonresident non-farmers who condescended to instruct them about their business. In the discussions, farmers sought clarification, challenged the speaker, or explained how their experiences validated the speaker’s propositions. keywords: agricultural; conference; county; farmers; indiana; institutes; latta; letter; people; professor; speakers; state; university; women; youth cache: ch-6867.pdf plain text: ch-6867.txt item: #38 of 97 id: ch-6868 author: Morice, Linda title: Marketing a Sloyd Curriculum date: 2014 words: 5822 flesch: 56 summary: Additionally, over one thousand articles on Swedish educational sloyd appeared in newspapers, magazines, and journals throughout the world. The curriculum, known as educational sloyd, was based on the writings of Comenius and Pestalozzi and promoted by Swedish entrepreneurs August Abramson and Otto Salomon. keywords: abramson; curriculum; education; larsson; marketing; naas; new; salomon; school; sloyd; teachers; thorbjornsson; training; work cache: ch-6868.pdf plain text: ch-6868.txt item: #39 of 97 id: ch-6869 author: DeMayo, Courtney title: Teaching the Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages: The Cathedral School at Reims in the Late Tenth Century date: 2017 words: 6898 flesch: 50 summary: Gerbert’s acquaintance with classical texts and his construction of models with moveable parts and visual aids follows the same teaching patterns he established in his work on rhetoric, music, and arithmetic. In addition to Pliny, Gerbert also possessed and therefore likely used a number of other texts. keywords: astronomy; cicero; gerbert; letters; reims; rhetoric; richer; students; teaching; texts; work cache: ch-6869.doc plain text: ch-6869.txt item: #40 of 97 id: ch-6872 author: Hendry, Petra Munro title: “Nursery of Revolution†: Armand Lanusse and the L’Institution Catholique des Orphelins dans l’Indigence, 1852-1868 date: 2017 words: 8220 flesch: 55 summary: The directors justified their requests given that black property owners had to pay taxes for public schools without having access to them. The Catholic Institute also provides a unique space in which to examine a Afro-Creole curriculum that saw public education as critical to liberation and equality, and in which notions of “public” education challenged normative understandings of the relationship between citizenship, nation, and identity. 8 The teachers and students of the Catholic Institute were situated as neither free or slave, black or white, French or American, but in the in-between and hybrid spaces of identity; citizenship and equality were continually contested and in flux throughout the antebellum period. keywords: afro; armand; catholic; color; creole; curriculum; education; institute; lanusse; louisiana; new; orleans; public; school; students cache: ch-6872.pdf plain text: ch-6872.txt item: #41 of 97 id: ch-6876 author: Berg, Christopher; Christou, Theodore Michael title: History and the Public Good: American Historical Association Presidential Addresses and the Evolving Understanding of History Education date: 2017 words: 10025 flesch: 49 summary: This is a problem that should be garnering more attention and scrutiny; Paxton (2002) found that ―through their choice of rhetoric, not to mention their sheer size and weight, history textbooks exude authority. The authors of history textbooks deliberately include some information and exclude others. keywords: address; aha; american; cronon; education; historical; history; national; new; past; public; social; students; studies; study; teaching; textbooks; university; world; york cache: ch-6876.pdf plain text: ch-6876.txt item: #42 of 97 id: ch-6879 author: Schul, James E; Reineke, James W title: Chartered Waters: The Twisted Navigation of the American Charter School Movement date: 2017 words: 7506 flesch: 58 summary: A report issued in late 2011 by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, reported the following: 64 A record number of school districts— six—have at least 30 percent of their public school students enrolled in public charter schools. Key Words: accountability; alternative schools; A Nation at Risk; business and educational reform; charter schools; educational policy; history of education; local control; No Child Left Behind Act; school choice; standardized testing Chartered Waters: The Twisted Navigation of the American Charter School Movement Bluffview Montessori School resides in the picturesque small Minnesota city of Winona. keywords: american; budde; charter; charter schools; concept; education; minnesota; movement; national; new; public; schools; state; students; system; teachers cache: ch-6879.pdf plain text: ch-6879.txt item: #43 of 97 id: ch-6880 author: Garry, Vanessa title: Ruth Harris: Does Higher Education Practice What They Teach? date: 2019 words: 4912 flesch: 49 summary: In many ways, this affective purpose for history teaching and learning that Horn had nearly eighty years ago is still relevant for history teachers today who aspire to foster a love of history in their own students’ lives. There have been numerous trends in history education since Horn wrote his methods book. keywords: commission; education; fiction; historical; history; horn; past; students; studies; teachers cache: ch-6880.pdf plain text: ch-6880.txt item: #44 of 97 id: ch-6881 author: Garry, Vanessa; Davis, Matthew title: Ruth Harris: Does Higher Education Practice What They Teach? date: 2017 words: 5088 flesch: 49 summary: In order to reduce spending the superintendent discontinued the College’s two-year program, ordered it not to admit any new students, reduced its staff, and assigned the Harris Teachers College president as president of both Harris Teachers College and Stowe Teachers College. In the third stage from 1929 to 1940, according to Harris (1967), the College cut all ties with Sumner High School with a name change to Harriet Beecher Stowe Teachers College (abbreviated to Stowe Teachers College) and a move to Simmons Elementary School. keywords: college; community; education; harris; stowe; students; teachers; teachers college cache: ch-6881.pdf plain text: ch-6881.txt item: #45 of 97 id: ch-6882 author: Davis, Jr., O. L.; Davis, Matthew D.; Lyons, Shante' J. title: The First Black History Textbook by a Black Educator for Black Students: Edward A. Johnson’s A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890 date: 2017 words: 8613 flesch: 58 summary: Prior to its appearance in 1891 and its use in some limited number of southern all-Black schools during the following decade, no singular book had been available previously for study by Black school pupils. In fact, Johnson‟s school history textbook may well have been one of the early book printing jobs that the Conkey firm undertook. keywords: african; american; author; black; edward; history; johnson; johnson‟s; negro; printing; race; school; slaves; textbook; washington; white; years cache: ch-6882.pdf plain text: ch-6882.txt item: #46 of 97 id: ch-6883 author: Schul, James title: Visiting the Past: Ernest Horn’s Conception of Historical Imagination for the Social Studies Classroom date: 2019 words: 4912 flesch: 49 summary: In many ways, this affective purpose for history teaching and learning that Horn had nearly eighty years ago is still relevant for history teachers today who aspire to foster a love of history in their own students’ lives. There have been numerous trends in history education since Horn wrote his methods book. keywords: commission; education; fiction; historical; history; horn; past; students; studies; teachers cache: ch-6883.pdf plain text: ch-6883.txt item: #47 of 97 id: ch-6885 author: Wraga, William G. title: THE HISTORICAL U. S. CURRICULUM FIELD’S SENSE OF THE PAST date: 2019 words: 5478 flesch: 47 summary: 19 THE HISTORICAL U. S. CURRICULUM FIELD’S SENSE OF THE PAST William Wraga University of Georgia Abstract Contrary to claims by curriculum historians that the historical field of curriculum development in the US was ahistorical, this analysis of curriculum writings from the period 1918 to 1964 found that, from the beginning, the US field of curriculum development manifested a persistent historical perspective. Subsequently, interest in the history of curriculum and curriculum development grew, resulting in, among other things, the founding in 1977 of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History (e.g., Kridel 1989; keywords: century; curriculum; curriculum development; development; education; field; gwynn; history; making; rugg; school cache: ch-6885.pdf plain text: ch-6885.txt item: #48 of 97 id: ch-6886 author: Binford, Paul E. title: ‘Students Know What They Are Doing’: The Introduction of the Simulation to Classrooms in the United States date: 2019 words: 6586 flesch: 63 summary: For example, Sarane S. Boocock and E. O. Schild wrote, “The design of simulation games for classroom use is essentially a phenomenon of the last decade” (1968, 15). Bernard Markwell, history teacher Francis W. Parker School If we are to believe several modern accounts, teachers in the United States first used classroom simulations approximately fifty years ago. keywords: activity; century; children; classroom; dewey; games; history; learning; play; school; simulations; students; use; war cache: ch-6886.pdf plain text: ch-6886.txt item: #49 of 97 id: ch-6900 author: Jorgenson, Simon N. title: The Curriculum and Courses of Study at Connecticut Agricultural College During the Stimson Era, 1901-1908 date: 2019 words: 6167 flesch: 51 summary: 41 The Curriculum and Courses of Study at Connecticut Agricultural College During the Stimson Era, 1901-1908 Simon Jorgenson University of Vermont Abstract Rufus W. Stimson served as president of Connecticut Agricultural College from 1901-1908. keywords: agricultural; college; connecticut; courses; farmers; grant; land; school; state; stimson cache: ch-6900.pdf plain text: ch-6900.txt item: #50 of 97 id: ch-6904 author: Tian, Ye title: From Greek/Latin To Chinese: What We Can Learn From The First Chinese Teacher At Harvard date: 2019 words: 7807 flesch: 59 summary: I use Kunhua Ge at Harvard as a case study to suggest that American popular sentiments towards China and attitudes towards earning Chinese contribute to the success of Chinese language education in the U.S. If Chinese language educators could better understand Kunhua Ge’s relatively unsuccessful experience at Harvard, they could better understand the challenges of teaching the Chinese language in the United States today. The Rationale for Modern Foreign Language Education in the U.S. Foreign language education in the U.S., including Chinese language education, is tightly connected to the development and the reform of the American educational systems. keywords: american; china; chinese; course; education; harvard; kunhua; kunhua ge; language; new; students; teacher; teaching; u.s; university cache: ch-6904.pdf plain text: ch-6904.txt item: #51 of 97 id: ch-6905 author: Greer, Tiffany; Platt, R. Eric; Woods, Shamekia title: “Towards a History of Medical Higher Education in the American South: Southern Nationalism, Racial Ethos, and the Flexner Report of 1910† date: 2019 words: 7640 flesch: 45 summary: While other northern institutions took note and adapted, southern medical colleges lagged (Ebert 1977; Slawson 2012). As late 1850s sectionalism intensified and the threat of disunion and civil war grew, the demand for southern medical colleges increased (Duffy, 1984). keywords: american; century; college; duffy; education; flexner; history; institutions; journal; medical; medical college; medicine; new; press; report; southern; students; university cache: ch-6905.pdf plain text: ch-6905.txt item: #52 of 97 id: ch-6906 author: Foster, Andrea Susan; Jasper, William A. title: Creative collaboration: A phenomenological study of a science faculty curriculum project date: 2019 words: 7213 flesch: 47 summary: A greater commitment by science faculty to focus on science teacher education could drive education reform at universities and K-12 classrooms. We accomplished our initial goal of aligning a set of science courses to the Science TEKS and the Texas Career and College Readiness Standards, created scope and sequences, course descriptions, we have mapped out an exciting degree plan for the new middle school science teacher preparation program which is strong in content and includes extensive field experiences. keywords: collaboration; college; courses; education; faculty; level; mathematics; middle; new; program; school; science; scientists; teacher cache: ch-6906.pdf plain text: ch-6906.txt item: #53 of 97 id: ch-6907 author: Evaniuck, Jayson D; Byford, Jeffrey M. title: The History, Rationale, and Influence of the High School Geography Project date: 2019 words: 4568 flesch: 51 summary: Abstract The 1960s witnessed a significant pedagogical reform movement in social studies education known as the New Social Studies (NSS) movement. Echoing similar concerns, Lewis Paul Todd (1957) decried social studies education by stating, “But the confusion over the meaning of the term ‘social studies’ is not confined to the matter of definition. keywords: curriculum; education; geography; high; hsgp; national; new; project; school; social; studies cache: ch-6907.pdf plain text: ch-6907.txt item: #54 of 97 id: ch-6912 author: Butler, Alexander title: The Purpose of Schooling: The German Community in Indianapolis date: 2021 words: 5854 flesch: 55 summary: Amidst the inconsistency and ineffectiveness of the public schools and the German community’s desire for a school to Americanize, preserve their language, and introduce their high culture, the most prominent of German schools was envisioned. One editorial drew attention to the large population of approximately 2000 students attending private German schools in Indianapolis (as cited in Ellis 1954, 135). keywords: city; community; education; english; german; indianapolis; language; public; school; state cache: ch-6912.pdf plain text: ch-6912.txt item: #55 of 97 id: ch-6913 author: Turner, Rachel K; Hinojosa, Eliel title: A Veterinary Tale of Two Buildings: Transformation to Meet the Needs of the Modern Student date: 2019 words: 5840 flesch: 58 summary: The buildings on the campus of Texas A&M University tell curricular stories as their initial construction responded to the educational needs of a growing university. Introduction The campus of Texas A&M University bustles with life as students, faculty, staff, and guests move about attending to their schedules. keywords: a&m; a&m university; archives; building; college; engineering; francis; hall; library; texas; texas a&m; university cache: ch-6913.pdf plain text: ch-6913.txt item: #56 of 97 id: ch-6915 author: Zahner, Mary Anne title: Analyzing the Past: Looking for Change. The History of Ohio Art Education Credentialing Practice date: 2019 words: 5974 flesch: 51 summary: Art, music, and physical education teachers felt that they needed more time student teaching; art teachers, especially, felt that they should be prepared for actual situations, where equipment and supplies were meager; and, all the Special teachers felt that they needed better knowledge of child growth and development. From the vivid survey statements of: administrators, who thought more classroom experience was needed; teachers of Special subjects, who needed more time student teaching; art teachers who needed better knowledge of child growth and development; and, former students who felt teachers lacked empathy and the ability to clearly teach abstract concepts; it was obvious that a change in teacher preparation was needed. keywords: art; art education; arts; barkan; curriculum; development; education; ohio; state; teacher; teacher education; teaching; university cache: ch-6915.pdf plain text: ch-6915.txt item: #57 of 97 id: ch-6916 author: Peretz, Miriam ben; Steinhart, Meir title: Civic education in a multicultural and conflicted society like Israel date: 2019 words: 4860 flesch: 54 summary: In order to find out how teachers in both populations understand the nature of civic education, we conducted an analysis of texts relating to civic education, and interviewed Jewish 125 and Arab civic education teachers with a set of questions relating to civic education. On the other hand, Jewish teachers view their role as freedom to express their own views without letting instructional materials dictate their teaching. keywords: arab; civic; education; israel; jewish; state; teachers cache: ch-6916.pdf plain text: ch-6916.txt item: #58 of 97 id: ch-6917 author: Platt, R. Eric title: College Music in the Cane Fields: Religion, Americanization, and the Louisiana Record Book of St Mary’s Brass Band, 1869-1905 date: 2021 words: 7446 flesch: 56 summary: Indeed, music education at the collegiate level underwent numerous transitions during the latter half of the nineteenth century—of particular note was the emergence of college brass bands. Though Baron and other historians acknowledge the rise of American brass bands in antebellum French Creole Louisiana as well as the Reconstruction- era growth of African American-led brass bands (Burns 2006, White 2001), no in-depth research explores the advent and evolution of music education in Louisiana’s nineteenth-century Catholic academies. keywords: american; band; book; brass; brass band; catholic; college; education; jefferson; jefferson college; louisiana; marist; mary; music; new; record; south cache: ch-6917.pdf plain text: ch-6917.txt item: #59 of 97 id: ch-6921 author: Steele, Kyle; Garrison, Joshua title: Modernity, Adolescence, and Guidance in the Comprehensive High School: An Analysis of the Works of Milo H. Stuart, 1917-1931 date: 2021 words: 6760 flesch: 52 summary: The latter, led by then-president of Harvard Charles Eliot, argued that high schools should provide a college preparatory curriculum for all students, no matter their plans after high school. Adolescence and Bureaucracy In pursuit of his mission to fit young people for their adult roles, Stuart unsurprisingly developed an educational philosophy of adolescence, and his most complete formulation of it is found in M.V. O’Shea’s edited volume Types of Schools for Boys, where he authored a five-chapter essay on the manual training high school. keywords: education; guidance; hall; high; indianapolis; individual; new; school; stuart; students; tech; work; year cache: ch-6921.pdf plain text: ch-6921.txt item: #60 of 97 id: ch-6922 author: Quynh Dang title: Reappraising the Roles of Girls' Preparatory Schools in the Late Nineteenth Century: An Example of the Classical School for Girls in Indianapolis, Indiana date: 2021 words: 6190 flesch: 56 summary: The establishment of high schools and female colleges allowed more women to pursue secondary and higher education. By 1890, more girls attended and graduated from high schools than boys (Woody 1929, 545-46). keywords: century; college; education; female; girls; history; indiana; public; school; science; sewall; students; women cache: ch-6922.pdf plain text: ch-6922.txt item: #61 of 97 id: ch-6923 author: Stallones, Jared R.; Marshall, Lindsay title: How Progressive Were the Progressives? A New Look at the Building America Classroom Magazines. date: 2021 words: 6723 flesch: 48 summary: Presenting an extraordinarily progressive depiction of Native history as fully modern, diverse, and fundamentally driven by a struggle over sovereignty, The American Indians succeeded in asking students to wrestle with the injustice of the treatment of Native people under American democracy. Native Culture in Building America Part one of Building America’s series Our Minority Groups, The American Indians introduced students to challenges facing modern Native nations through the lens of Native history. keywords: america; building; curriculum; education; history; indians; issue; nations; native; people; society; students; study; u.s cache: ch-6923.pdf plain text: ch-6923.txt item: #62 of 97 id: ch-6924 author: Santarelli, Lauren title: The Texas School of the Air and It's "Stories Plus" Program date: 2021 words: 8033 flesch: 54 summary: Through the analysis of the content of the Stories Plus program, which focused on teaching students social themes and skills, more can be understood regarding how Texas School of the Air programs were designed to be “educationally and socially desirable”. Of these supporting groups, however, the one that had probably the most influence over the organization, other than the State Department of Education was the Texas Radio Council (Chapman, 1940; Hill, 1997).The Texas School of the Air was administered as a division of the State Department of Education and directed by John W. Gunstream. keywords: air; broadcasts; education; programs; questions; radio; social; state; stories; students; teachers; texas; texas school; woods cache: ch-6924.pdf plain text: ch-6924.txt item: #63 of 97 id: ch-6925 author: Ali, Salma title: Action research: Exploring the role of curriculum in preparing students the efficient members of society date: 2021 words: 6657 flesch: 57 summary: A purpose of the focus groups to have detailed responses about their understanding of world global issues. Overall, students spent eight classes on exploring Unit 1 & 2 in total to have an understanding of world major issues, and another six weeks to explore Unit 3 to have an understanding of the local issues. keywords: curriculum; dubai; focus; issues; learning; pathways; research; students; understanding; world cache: ch-6925.pdf plain text: ch-6925.txt item: #64 of 97 id: ch-6927 author: Burlbaw, Lynn Matthew title: Curriculum Journal Index - 1929-1943 date: 2021 words: 18402 flesch: 77 summary: 4, no. 2 (1933):11-12; Curriculum Program in Arkansas. Curriculum Program in Arkansas. keywords: college; committee; community; curriculum; curriculum development; curriculum improvement; curriculum program; curriculum revision; curriculum study; education; elementary; high; making; new; school; school curriculum; secondary; social; state; study; teachers cache: ch-6927.pdf plain text: ch-6927.txt item: #65 of 97 id: ch-6929 author: Jessica Zaker title: Problems of Democracy Textbooks of the 1920s: How Well Did They Meet the Mark? date: 2022 words: 7659 flesch: 53 summary: Reconstructionists and progressive educators of the time saw the need for the social sciences to have a place within the social studies curriculum (Singleton 1980) and felt this should be done by shifting the focus from a transfer of 2 information about the structure and function of government to a development of informed citizens with skills and information for understanding social problems and affecting social reform (Makler 2004). This more woven approach allows for a more blended study, potentially instilling in students that these social sciences fields are not mutually exclusive, that issues can be interrogated with knowledge from the various social sciences, and—possibly most importantly—that these lenses must all be considered for such problems to be solved. keywords: american; course; democracy; education; hughes; problems; questions; section; students; studies; study; text cache: ch-6929.pdf plain text: ch-6929.txt item: #66 of 97 id: ch-6930 author: Evaniuck, Jayson D title: “Turning of the Wheel”: A Perennialist’s Answer to 1970s Curricular Debates date: 2022 words: 6630 flesch: 48 summary: Such shifts in curriculum studies form the backdrop of why Harry Broudy found himself on the outside looking in during the 1970s and early 1980s. Though it is tempting to consider the work of Harry Broudy, Othanel Smith, and Burnett (1964) in a replicative fashion, curriculum theory gets formulated out of the problems, philosophies, and psychological developments within their respective era. keywords: 1970s; broudy; burnett; curriculum; education; harry; jackson; pinar; reconceptualist; smith; tanner; theory cache: ch-6930.pdf plain text: ch-6930.txt item: #67 of 97 id: ch-6931 author: Gunn, Dennis title: Righteous Pledge: : The Pledge of Allegiance and the Implicit Curriculum of American Civil Religion in the Eisenhower Era date: 2022 words: 9111 flesch: 49 summary: These sentiments reflected the tension in American Catholicism between traditionalists who saw American civil religion as a threat and progressives who saw entry into the American mainstream as vital to promoting American Catholic values. It quickly gained in popularity and became a staple in American public schools by the early twentieth century (Ellis 2005; Leepson 2005). keywords: allegiance; american; catholic; columbus; curriculum; education; flag; god; knights; pledge; public; religion; schools; states; supreme; united cache: ch-6931.pdf plain text: ch-6931.txt item: #68 of 97 id: ch-6932 author: Turner, Rachel title: Analyzing Curriculum Models from the 20th Century: A focus on Integration date: 2022 words: 6597 flesch: 50 summary: Jacobs (1989) describes interdisciplinary as “a knowledge view and curriculum approach that consciously applies methodology and language from more than one discipline to examine a central theme, issue, problem, topic or experience” (8). The Disciplinary Scale The Disciplinary Scale was created as a way to provide information about the major types of curriculum organization approaches. keywords: approach; bar; content; curriculum; disciplines; integration; knowledge; social; students; studies; subjects; teacher cache: ch-6932.pdf plain text: ch-6932.txt item: #69 of 97 id: ch-6937 author: Tomlinson, Stephen title: German Pietism and the Pedagogic Reformation of Human Nature date: 2022 words: 9125 flesch: 56 summary: In line with the theological reforms promoted by Jacob Spener, Francke developed a program of clerical and teacher training designed to initiate a new era of religious piety. Following Comenius, Francke adhered to a Biblically based account of nature. keywords: christian; church; francke; god; halle; holy; life; lutheran; nature; pietism; press; spener; students; theology; university; wolff; word cache: ch-6937.pdf plain text: ch-6937.txt item: #70 of 97 id: ch-6938 author: Tomlinson, Stephen title: Victor Cousin, Sarah Austin, and the Cause of National Education date: 2022 words: 11855 flesch: 56 summary: On both sides of the Atlantic leading political and intellectual figures drew upon Cousin’s vivid and detailed account of German schooling to justify government involvement in public education. Even local clergy worked in concert with municipal officials in the management of public education. keywords: american; austin; cousin; education; everett; german; house; instruction; john; mann; massachusetts; mill; national; public; report; schooling; schools; state; system cache: ch-6938.pdf plain text: ch-6938.txt item: #71 of 97 id: ch-6940 author: Becks, Stefan title: More than a theologian: Friedrich Schleiermacher's mark on education date: 2022 words: 6931 flesch: 55 summary: Educational Theory as Topological Rhetoric: The Concepts of Pedagogy of Johann Friedrich Herbart and Friedrich Schleiermacher. Schleiermacher is widely known as a theologian, but within the German-speaking field of education, he is also considered a key reformer and theorist, who laid the conceptual groundwork for the modern research university as well as Prussia’s public school system. keywords: berlin; education; friedrich; humboldt; knowledge; nowak; schleiermacher; university; wilhelm; wissenschaft; zöllner cache: ch-6940.pdf plain text: ch-6940.txt item: #72 of 97 id: ch-6941 author: Becks, Christine title: J. F. Herbart on the Art of Teaching: Bildsamkeit and Pedagogical Tact date: 2022 words: 6433 flesch: 52 summary: Kant, Herbart und Riemann. For historiography, the reception of Herbart’s scholarship provides a fascinating example of how ideas are translated through time and space. keywords: education; german; herbart; pedagogy; philosophy; practice; students; tact; teacher; teaching; theory; thought cache: ch-6941.pdf plain text: ch-6941.txt item: #73 of 97 id: ch-6942 author: McKnight, Douglas title: Piety Rationalized: Notes on Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Ramist Logic of Method date: 2022 words: 8220 flesch: 55 summary: No less than Edwards Mather wanted to transform the religious education of the whole community though active clerical engagement. Together, the head and the heart, along with the minister’s instruction, would steer the congregation along the flight God intended for a pious life and away from a state of malaise and declension. keywords: congregation; conversion; edwards; experience; god; knowledge; life; mather; new; piety; puritans; reason; spiritual; world cache: ch-6942.pdf plain text: ch-6942.txt item: #74 of 97 id: ch-6944 author: Tomlinson, Stephen title: Introduction date: 2022 words: 4281 flesch: 47 summary: In “Piety Rationalized: Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the Ramsit Logic of Method” Douglas McKnight reveals how Puritan divines in England and North American colonies embraced similar hopes for the transformative power of religious education. From the funding and supervision of district schools to the training of teachers, the measures adapted to rejuvenate the nation after the Napoleonic Wars made Prussian education the envy of Europe. keywords: education; german; humboldt; instruction; kant; press; prussia; schooling; university; von cache: ch-6944.pdf plain text: ch-6944.txt item: #75 of 97 id: ch-731 author: Groen, Mark title: Contested Curriculum & Pedagogy: California During the Rafferty date: 2010 words: 3913 flesch: 54 summary: Phonics works in L.A.‖ Max Rafferty papers, Weekly Syndicated Columns, F3752:851, California State Archives. Abstract Max Rafferty served as California‘s Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1963 to 1971, through some of the most contentious and transformative years in California education. keywords: archives; california; curriculum; education; history; max; max rafferty; rafferty; state; textbooks cache: ch-731.pdf plain text: ch-731.txt item: #76 of 97 id: ch-745 author: Evans, Ronald W title: The Other Rugg Controversy: Reflections on the Life of an Activist date: 2010 words: 15161 flesch: 58 summary: [Rugg] is a notorious left-wing writer of Socialistic textbooks and one of the original group of collectivist teachers who have warped the minds of American schoolchildren for two decades … Harold Rugg is a socialist. The literature on issues-centered and democratic education, whether it is explicitly acknowledged or not, is built upon the foundation established by Harold Rugg and other great progressives during the first half of the 20 th century. keywords: american; college; controversy; curriculum; education; fbi; harold; history; issues; life; new; problems; rugg; rugg social; rugg‟s; school; social; society; studies; teachers; textbooks; university; work; years; york cache: ch-745.pdf plain text: ch-745.txt item: #77 of 97 id: ch-762 author: Colby, Sherri title: The Emergence of Historical Inquiry as Curriculum: Reconsidering the British Schools Council History Project date: 2010 words: 6976 flesch: 47 summary: The project‟s contributions to history education include the fundamental issues of: (a) the illumination of new cognitive and developmental possibilities for adolescents (b) the acknowledgment of history as a form of knowledge through a reliance on the structure of the discipline and the teaching of the historian‟s craft (c) the development of historical inquiry as curriculum, with an emphasis on history as motive and history as time, and with an emphasis on social history and people (d) the encouragement of the active teaching of history (e) the adoption of historical empathy (the careful consideration of an historical view of the past from the perspective of the agents involved) as a noteworthy aim (f) the fueling of research on the nature of cognition in history (historical thinking) (g) the lucid highlighting of a pragmatic—yet philosophically based-- theory of teaching and learning in history The project, however, did suffer from limitations. By the late 1960s, critics, including university professors and educational leaders in the government began criticizing history for its lackluster instructional practices and the overemphasis on British/ European political history, at the exclusion of social history and alternative world perspectives (Rosenzweig 1984). keywords: council; curriculum; education; historical; history; inquiry; new; project; schools; shemilt; shp; studies; teaching; thinking cache: ch-762.pdf plain text: ch-762.txt item: #78 of 97 id: ch-765 author: Beyer, Carl Kalani title: The Role of Mataio Kekuanaoa in Directing and Challenging the Curriculum for Hawaiian Schools during the Nineteenth Century date: 2010 words: 7633 flesch: 56 summary: This study focuses on the role played by Mataio Kekuanaoa, who as President of the Board of Education, directed and challenged the curriculum for Hawaiian schools during the nineteenth century. Agreeing with the contention made by Bernard Bailyn (1960) that research should provide a critique of previous studies and the call by Hayden White (1999) that history is about retrieving the past in order to grasp the present, this study focuses on the role played by Kekuanaoa in directing and challenging the curriculum for Hawaiian schools during the second period of extending an American hegemony. keywords: american; board; curriculum; education; english; government; hawaiian; honolulu; kekuanaoa; language; missionaries; missionary; schools cache: ch-765.pdf plain text: ch-765.txt item: #79 of 97 id: ch-772 author: Wilson, Mary Margaret title: Higher Education for Rural Homemakers date: 2010 words: 9071 flesch: 50 summary: Formal study in Domestic Science and Art allowed Macdonald Institute women to lay claim to authoritative knowledge of the best ways to perform domestic tasks. A further parallel with the land grant college system in the United States is evident in the creation of a Domestic Science programs for rural women, which became a part of the offerings provided by the land grant colleges such as Iowa State, Kansas State and Illinois Industrial University (Vincente 1997, 321-22). keywords: agricultural; college; course; curriculum; education; home; house; institute; macdonald; macdonald institute; oac; ontario; review; science; students; university; watson; women; work; year cache: ch-772.pdf plain text: ch-772.txt item: #80 of 97 id: ch-781 author: Blankenship, Whitney title: Education for Victory: Pre-Induction Training at Austin High School date: 2010 words: 8150 flesch: 59 summary: Soon after, it was determined that pre-induction training at the high school level was a necessity if the armed services were to continue to train and put soldiers into combat in anything close to the numbers needed for a U.S. victory over the Axis powers. In 1942, the U.S. Department of Education began publicizing pre-induction training for high school students and a few months later the Victory Corps were established to help facilitate the process. keywords: austin; austin high; classes; corps; courses; education; high; high school; induction; program; school; students; training; victory; war cache: ch-781.pdf plain text: ch-781.txt item: #81 of 97 id: ch-783 author: Caldwell, Heather title: Mary C.C. Bradford’s Contribution to the Colorado Curriculum: 1913-1918 date: 2010 words: 6046 flesch: 54 summary: In a letter to teachers of her state in the Colorado School Journal, she explained the requirements of acquiring a first grade rating, The first grade will be issued to those schools complying with the largest number of the following requirements: The possession of a professionally trained or highly certified teacher, convenient, sanitary, and beautiful buildings, grounds and equipment, a scientifically organized school, full length of term, fair salary paid to the teacher, and, above all, to the school which best succeeds in keeping the largest number of school children in school throughout the year, and most affects the community life” (Colorado School Journal 1920, 6). Colorado schools under Bradford‟s leadership used this national crisis to ready their students for service and national aid. keywords: bradford; children; colorado; curriculum; education; new; plan; schools; state; superintendent; war cache: ch-783.pdf plain text: ch-783.txt item: #82 of 97 id: ch-785 author: Winter Sokoloff, Ann L. title: The Quest for a Unitary Curriculum date: 2010 words: 8746 flesch: 57 summary: Evaluating past curriculum work helps educators to build upon the successful approaches and avoid repeating those that failed. Unitary curriculum has a rich heritage in the integrated units of work practiced at the Dewey‘s Laboratory School in Chicago and other progressive schools. keywords: curriculum; dewey; education; learner; life; new; press; research; school; society; students; study; tanner; teachers; unit; university; work; york cache: ch-785.pdf plain text: ch-785.txt item: #83 of 97 id: ch-788 author: Kessinger, Ph.D., Thomas A. title: Forty Years of Service-Learning in the United States, 1969-2009 date: 2010 words: 5412 flesch: 53 summary: Distinctions are offered between community service, service learning, and service-learning (hyphenated) with emphasis on the latter during this period. Service-learning, as a concept, has evolved from volunteerism and community service; or, to say it another way, service learning rests on both volunteerism, service and community service. keywords: america; community; community service; education; learning; national; public; school; service; states cache: ch-788.pdf plain text: ch-788.txt item: #84 of 97 id: ch-799 author: Flynn, Joseph; Cooper Shaw, Carla; Dorsch, Nina title: Urban legends: Representing the urban teacher in urban teacher film (1955-2007) date: 2010 words: 7442 flesch: 59 summary: Joseph Flynn, Carla Cooper Shaw, and Nina Dorsch Northern Illinois University Abstract This study examines the trends in representations of urban teachers in urban teacher films from 1955-2007. Using a textual analysis (McKee 2005), ten films that focused on the lives of urban teachers were analyzed. keywords: approach; arc; change; figure; films; stories; story; story arc; students; teachers; teaching; trend cache: ch-799.pdf plain text: ch-799.txt item: #85 of 97 id: ch-800 author: Kelly, Larry J; Huie, Allison M. title: From Laddie Pencils and Big Chief Tablets to Blogs and Wiki’s date: 2010 words: 3438 flesch: 53 summary: Collaboration through use of new technologies encourages critical and creative thinking while helping students to transfer data into usable knowledge and wisdom. We must allow the creative, communicative and connective possibilities of new technologies to lead to a “fusion of horizons” in an ever-globalized world (Dewey 2005). keywords: american; computer; dewey; education; learning; new; radio; students; technology; world cache: ch-800.pdf plain text: ch-800.txt item: #86 of 97 id: ch-820 author: Capraro, Robert M.; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Zientek, Linda Reichwein title: Content and Pedagogical Knowledge in Colorado Teachers’ Mathematics Exams at the Turn of the 20th Century date: 2010 words: 8087 flesch: 55 summary: Analysis of Colorado teacher exams indicated educators attempted to follow many of the recommendations set forth by mathematical organizations and educational entities at the turn of the 20th century. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether or not recommendations proposed by the Report of the Committee of Ten (NEA, 1893) and the Report of the Committee of the Chicago Section (1899) made an impact on teacher certification exams in the state of Colorado. keywords: arithmetic; certificate; colorado; content; exams; instruction; items; problems; public; report; state; superintendent; teacher cache: ch-820.pdf plain text: ch-820.txt item: #87 of 97 id: ch-944 author: Christou, Theodore Michael title: CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE: REFORMING THE CURRICULUM AND THE WAR’S IMPACT ON ONTARIO’S PROGRESSIVIST RHETORIC, 1937—1942 date: 2014 words: 12549 flesch: 46 summary: Ultimately, they needed to follow the industrial models in order to relate school studies as specifically as possible to the vocational realities in Ontario. 4 The new Deputy Minister of Education and Chief Director of Education, Duncan McArthur, would become the driving force behind the Department‘s push to reform Ontario‘s schools. keywords: canadian; child; course; curriculum; education; health; ibid; individual; journal; learning; mcarthur; new; ontario‘s; programme; progressivist; school; students; studies; study; teachers; war cache: ch-944.pdf plain text: ch-944.txt item: #88 of 97 id: ch-951 author: Elfer, Charles Joseph title: PLACE-BASED EDUCATION: MAKING THE CASE FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS date: 2014 words: 7663 flesch: 51 summary: Place- based curriculum and instruction: Outdoor and environmental education approaches. Introduction Place-based education (PBE) is a term which refers to those forms of pedagogy which seek to connect learning to the cultural, historical, and ecological contexts in which schooling itself takes place. keywords: approach; berry; berry school; community; dewey; education; foxfire; life; local; penn; place; school; students; work cache: ch-951.pdf plain text: ch-951.txt item: #89 of 97 id: ch-952 author: Groen, Mark title: Joseph Mayer Rice: An Enduring Vision of School Reform date: 2017 words: 3325 flesch: 60 summary: Rice based his rankings of city schools on the prevalence of recitation versus thematic teaching he observed (Rice 1893, 229). Rice’s exposé of pedagogical practices in schools placed him among the early practitioners of a journalistic style that would become known as muckraking journalism. keywords: articles; century; joseph; new; rice; schools; teaching; york cache: ch-952.pdf plain text: ch-952.txt item: #90 of 97 id: ch-953 author: Black, Linda title: The Impact of Informal Curriculum Experiences: A Study of the Education of a Female Community Leader in Houston, Texas date: 2017 words: 5169 flesch: 55 summary: While the pervading attitude about women‟s proper roles in the beginning years of the 20 th century was predominantly one of wife and mother, the advice of James Hogg to his daughter in the matter of subjects such as politics or business, was decidedly different, saying, in the same letter, “When you quit school I trust you will study the land and oil business so that you can profitably employ your fine talents” (3B111, Folder 4, James Stephen Hogg Papers, Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin). The special relationship that James Hogg had with his daughter began at her birth. keywords: community; education; history; hogg; houston; james; texas; university; women cache: ch-953.pdf plain text: ch-953.txt item: #91 of 97 id: ch-954 author: Olson Beal, Heather K title: The dynamics of race and education: A case study of South Boulevard Elementary date: 2017 words: 8933 flesch: 66 summary: Another assumption is that all Reconstruction- era Black schools were inferior to White schools in terms of facilities and resources (Jones- Wilson 1981; Perry 2003; Siddle Walker 1996). In 1966-67, the per pupil inventory value of school facilities was $1,303.74 for White schools and $1,090.95 for Black schools (Davis 1999). keywords: baton; black; boulevard; children; ebrp; education; immersion; louisiana; magnet; non; parents; program; public; rouge; school; south; south boulevard; students; teachers; white cache: ch-954.pdf plain text: ch-954.txt item: #92 of 97 id: ch-955 author: Jorgensen, Gregg title: Unraveling Conflicting Interpretations of the 1916 Report on Social Studies date: 2014 words: 7681 flesch: 51 summary: The attributes of social studies did not equate directly to the narrow social aims of social efficiency only as social control. Upon close examination of the trilogy of reports and the various interpretations, it argues that the 1916 Committee as a group overcame the multiple influences of social movements and critical issues of the era by directly applying John Dewey’s educational philosophy and principles in the final recommendations for social studies to a degree not yet recognized by contemporary scholars. keywords: committee; dewey; education; efficiency; history; influence; new; recommendations; report; scholars; studies; teaching cache: ch-955.pdf plain text: ch-955.txt item: #93 of 97 id: ch-975 author: Lindley, Jason J. title: Harvard Project Physics: Adaptability and Use in the 21st Century date: 2014 words: 3476 flesch: 54 summary: Any combination that incorporates Harvard Project Physics materials will effectively prepare students and give them a more rounded view of science as a field. NY Abstract During the 1970's, Harvard Project Physics was a popular curriculum used in high school physics classrooms, and sought to change the way physics was taught. keywords: harvard; holton; materials; physics; project; science; students cache: ch-975.pdf plain text: ch-975.txt item: #94 of 97 id: ch-976 author: Lange, Catherine title: The Contributions of Science Educator F. James Rutherford: Harvard Project Physics and Project 2061 date: 2014 words: 5551 flesch: 50 summary: They state “that Science for All Americans by Project 2061 (AAAS 1989) 58 represented a major milestone in shaping the discourse of science education reform since the late 1980”. The Europe- based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development studied Project 2061 in 1989 and characterized it as the “single most visible attempt at science education reform in American history” (Allman 1993). keywords: american; curriculum; education; holton; hpp; literacy; national; project; reform; rutherford; science; teachers cache: ch-976.pdf plain text: ch-976.txt item: #95 of 97 id: ch-979 author: Morowski, Deborah; Spearman, Mindy title: County Teachers’ Institutes: A Snapshot from Gonzales, Texas date: 2017 words: 4615 flesch: 55 summary: Of the three institute types available to Texas teachers, county institutes generally garnered the largest amount of teacher participation. One important means of furthering teacher knowledge was through teacher institutes. keywords: county; education; gonzales; gonzales county; institute; school; state; superintendent; teachers; texas cache: ch-979.pdf plain text: ch-979.txt item: #96 of 97 id: ch-983 author: Beyer, Carl Kalani title: Anticipating, influencing, and implementing the use of the manual training curriculum in date: 2014 words: 7888 flesch: 60 summary: Manual Training in the U 35 Anticipating, influencing, and implementing the use of the manual training curriculum in schools: Making a case for acknowledging missionary educators’ accomplishments in Hawai‘i Carl Kalani Beyer Abstract The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the use of manual training curriculum in the schools of Hawaii anticipated, influenced, and implemented American use of this curricular practice continuously from 1835 until this curriculum was replaced by vocational education in the 1920s. This version of manual training curriculum was a more systematic form. keywords: boarding; boarding school; curriculum; education; hawaiian; hawai„i; hilo; industrial; manual; school; states; students; training; united cache: ch-983.pdf plain text: ch-983.txt item: #97 of 97 id: ch-992 author: Evans, Ronald title: The Cold War Pursuit of Inquiry Learning: A Search for Origins date: 2014 words: 7577 flesch: 51 summary: Adding to the general ferment, non- project social studies curriculum workers, teachers, and teacher educators labored in the field, often providing conferences and workshops and receiving funds from the USOE, state departments of education and local school districts. Project social studies—a report. keywords: bruner; cold; curriculum; development; education; history; manpower; movement; national; new; projects; reform; research; schools; science; social; studies; war cache: ch-992.pdf plain text: ch-992.txt