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Education

Allen, Louise Anderson, “Silenced Sisters: Dewey’s Disciples in a Conservative New South, 1900–1940,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5 (April 2006), 119–37.

Bateman, Jeffrey S., “Utah State Agricultural College as the ‘West Point of the West’: The Leadership of E. G. Peterson,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Spring 2006), 164–77.

Beicheng, Liu, “Yi zhiye anquan baozhang xueshu ziyoun: Meiguo zhongshen jiaozhide youlai jizhenglun” (Academic freedom protected by career security: The tenure system in the United States), American Studies Quarterly (Beijing) (no. 4, 2003), 98–110. In Chinese.

Besmann, Wendy, “The ‘Typical Home Kid Overachievers’: Instilling a Success Ethic in the Jewish Children’s Home of New Orleans,” Southern Jewish History, 8 (2005), 121–59.

Bouman, Jeffrey, “Personal History and Public History: The Life of Henry Simmons Frieze and the Secularization of the University of Michigan, 1854–1889,” Fídes et Hístoría, 37–38 (Summer–Fall, Winter–Spring 2005–2006), 83–96.

Dorn, Charles, “‘The World’s Schoolmaster’: Educational Reconstruction, Grayson Kefauver, and the Founding of unesco, 1942–46,” History of Education (London), 35 (May 2006), 297–320.

Gold, Kenneth M., “‘We just don’t want to keep on going to useless meetings’: Community Organizing at Detroit’s Jefferson Junior High School, 1966–1967,” Michigan Historical Review, 32 (Spring 2006), 97–121.

Hayes-Bautista, David E., et al., “Reginaldo Francisco del Valle: ucla’s Forgotten Forefather,” Southern California Quarterly, 88 (Spring 2006), 1–35.

Kimball, Bruce, “The Proliferation of the Case Study Method in American Law Schools: Mr. Langdell’s Emblematic ‘Abomination,’ 1890–1915,” History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Summer 2006), 192–247.

Leroux, Karen, “‘Lady Teachers’ and the Genteel Roots of Teacher Organization in Gilded Age Cities,” History of Education Quarterly, 46 (Summer 2006), 164–91.

Pratt, Robert A., “The Rhetoric of Hate: The Demosthenian Literary Society and Its Opposition to the Desegregation of the University of Georgia, 1950–1964,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 90 (Summer 2006), 236–59.

Rodgers, Carol R., “‘The Turning of One’s Soul’: Learning to Teach for Social Justice—The Putney Graduate School of Teacher Education (1950–1964),” Teachers College Record, 108 (July 2006), 1266–95.

Schramm-Pate, Susan L., and Katherine Chaddock, “From Obscurity to Distinction: (Re)positioning Women ‘Progressive’ Educators in the New South,” Southern Studies, 13 (Spring–Summer 2006), 25–49.

Snipes, Vincent T., and Roderick D. Waters, “The Mathematics Education of African Americans in North Carolina: From the Brown Decision to No Child Left Behind,” Negro Educational Review, 56 (July 2005), 107–26.

Stuart, Nancy M., “The History of Photographic Education in Rochester, New York, 1960–1980,” Exposure, 39 (Spring 2006), 33–43.

Torbett, David, “Race and Conservative Protestantism: Princeton Theological Seminary and the Unity of the Human Species,” Fídes et Hístoría, 37–38 (Summer–Fall, Winter–Spring 2005–2006), 119–36.

Wraga, William G., “Progressive Pioneer: Alexander James Inglis (1879–1924) and American Secondary Education,” Teachers College Record, 108 (June 2006), 1080–1105.

Xiaoli, Zhang, “Meiguo gaodeng jiaoyude yanbian” (The evolution of U.S. higher education), Chinese Journal of American History (Xiamen) (no. 2, 2003), 17–26. In Chinese.

 

Arboleda, Molly Quest, “Educating Young Children Well: The Road Not Taken, 1920–1943” (Claremont Graduate University, 2005). Order No. DA3192273.

Cain, Timothy Reese, “Academic Freedom in an Age of Organization, 1913–1941” (University of Michigan, 2005). Order No. DA3192592.

Friesen, Gérome Lambertus, “Het verantwoorde verschil:` intelligentiemeting in de Verenigde Staten” (The justified difference: Intelligence measurement in the United States of America) (University of Groningen, Netherlands, 2006). In Dutch.

Goodyear-Ka’opua, Jennifer Noelani, “Ku ka Mana: Building Community and Nation through Contemporary Hawaiian Schooling” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005). Order No. DA3191883.

Lapteva, E. V., “Amerikanskoe rossievedenie 1970–2000 gg.: Kharakternye cherty sotsiokul’turnykh issledovanii” (American Russian studies, 1970–2000: Typical features of social-cultural studies) (Tiumen State University, Russia, 2005). In Russian.

Loss, Catherine Gavin, “Public Schools, Private Lives: American Education and Psychological Authority, 1945–1975” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3189311.

Patterson, Gerrelyn Chunn, “Brown Can’t Close Us Down: The Invincible Pride of Hillside High School” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3190296.

Prehn, Walter Lawerence, III, “Social Vision, Character, and Academic Excellence in Nineteenth-Century America: William Augustus Muhlenberg and the Church School Movement, 1828–1877” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3189314.

Shershneva, T. G., “Razvitie shkol’nogo obrazovaniia v SShA v kontse XIX-nachale XX vekov” (The development of secondary education in the usa, late 19th–early 20th centuries) (Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Russia, 2004). In Russian.

 

Clark, Thomas D., My Century in History: Memoirs. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xx, 393 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2400-1.)

Herbst, Jurgen, School Choice and School Governance: A Historical Study of the United States and Germany. (New York: Palgrave, 2006. xiv, 207 pp. $65.00, isbn 1-4039-7302-4.)

Stave, Bruce M., Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the University of Connecticut, 1881–2006. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2006. xxii, 355 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-58465-570-1.)

Williams, Gertrude, and Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson, Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools. (New York: Palgrave, 2005. xii, 311 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 0-312-29542-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 0-312-29543-X.)

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