In the Crossfire : Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform [1 ed.] 9780812207668, 9780812244359

In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform 9780812207668

In the Crossfire brings a much-needed historical perspective to contemporary debates about educational inequality by tra

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Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology: The Scientific Enterprise in Late Victorian Society 9781400869114

Despite great ferment and activity among historians of science in recent years, the history of physiology after 1850 has

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In the Crossfire of History: Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South 9781978830240

In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed a

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Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History 9781978808461

Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools

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Rabbi Marcus Jastrow and His Vision for the Reform of Judaism: A Study in the History of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century 9781618113566

Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1829-1903) was one of the most important figures of nineteenth-century Judaism, but is often negle

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California in a Time of Excellence: School Reform at the Crossroads of the American Dream 1438424930, 9781438424934, 9781441607805

Follows California's efforts at reforming the public school system from 1983 to the present.

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A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public Opinion 9780226813073

Pollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. I

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Building the Compensatory State: An Intellectual History and Theory of American Administrative Reform 9780367348441, 9780429328374

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Marcus Foster and the Oakland Public Schools: Leadership in an Urban Bureaucracy [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520310124

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The American Model of State and School 9781350091191, 9781441135308

State and Schools argues that the American educational model represents a third way of organizing the provision of schoo

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