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Education

 

Bateman, Robert L., “The Army and Academic Culture,” Academic Questions, 21 (March 2008), 62–78.

Cartwright, Michael G., “The Founding of Indiana Central University: Another Chapter in the History of United Brethren Higher Education,” Methodist History, 46 (July 2008), 212–22.

Dorsey, Dana Thompson, “An Examination of the Legal Debate Regarding Race-Based Education Policies from 1849 to 1964,” Negro Educational Review, 59 (Spring–Summer 2008), 7–26.

Fresne, Jeannette, “History of the Stamps Baxter Singing Schools and Normal School of Music,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 21–38.

Gordy, Sondra, “Through a Heroine’s Eyes: Elizabeth Huckaby and the ‘Lost Year,’” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 67 (Summer 2008), 141–67.

Kiel, Daniel, “Exploded Dream: Desegregation in the Memphis City Schools,” Law and Inequality, 26 (Summer 2008), 261–303.

Krikun, Andrew, “Popular Music and Jazz in the American Junior College Music Curriculum during the Swing Era (1935–1945),” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 30 (Oct. 2008), 39–49.

Tamir, Eran, “Theorizing the Politics of Educational Reform: The Case of New Jersey’s Alternate Route to Teacher Certification,” American Journal of Education, 115 (Nov. 2008), 65–95.

 

Armwood, Jacquelyn L., “Opportunity and Achievement through Change: A Biographical Study of Carzetta Snell” (Stephen P. Austin State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301655.

Burkholder, Zoë, “With Science as His Shield: Teaching Race and Culture in American Public Schools, 1900–1954” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3295334.

Cook, Bettye Alexander, “A Chronological Study of Experiential Education in the American History Museum” (University of North Texas, 2007). Order No. DA3300938.

Grunzke, Andrew Lawrence, “Exposing the Man behind the Curtain: Educational Aims and Latent Lessons in L. Frank Baum’s ‘Oz’ Books” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3300742.

Hancock, Carole Wylie, “Honorable Soldiers, Too: An Historical Case Study of Post-Reconstruction African American Female Teachers of the Upper Ohio River Valley” (Ohio University, 2008). Order No. DA3302718.

Hill, Robert Frederick, III, “An Historical Analysis of Policy Decisions and the Fiscal Equity of School Funding in Ohio, 1980–2003” (Ashland University, 2008). Order No. DA3301851.

McGlynn, Adam James, “Reforming Urban Schools through Systemic Policy Change: The Adoption, Efficiency, and Performance of Mayoral Control” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3302030.

New, Beryl Ann, “A Fire in the Sky: Student Activism in Topeka, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas High Schools in 1969 and 1970” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3297621.

Nguyen, Anna Dimy, “The Role of Education for Vietnamese Immigrants of the 1970s and Implications for Today’s Asian-American Students” (Lamar University, 2007). Order No. DA3301089.

Penland, Jennifer L., “The Investigation of Educational Experiences and Successful Career Choices of American Indians Who Grew Up during the 1950s and 1960s” (Lamar University, 2007). Order No. DA3301090.

Soo Hoo, Tsung Y. (Bill), “How Revenue Sources Have Adjusted to Changes in State Appropriations at the Three New Jersey Public Research Universities from 1994–2003” (Seton Hall University, 2007). Order No. DA3301072.

Traynor, John, Jr., “Ad majorum dei glorium: Jesuit Secondary Education in Washington State, 1886–1919” (Washington State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301999.

 

Duffy, Jennifer O’Connor, Working-Class Students at Radcliffe College, 1940–1970: The Intersection of Gender, Social Class, and Historical Context. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2008. x, 205 pp. $109.95, isbn 978-0-7734-5098-1.)

Gumprecht, Blake, The American College Town. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxii, 438 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-671-2.)

Rivera, Lorna, Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post–Welfare Era. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 176 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03351-3. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07555-1.)

Wolferman, Kristie C., The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley: Pioneer of Women’s Education in Missouri. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xiv, 160 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1805-6.)

 

Clark, Burton R., with Adele Clark, On Higher Education: Selected Writings, 1956–2006. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xviii, 575 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9020-8. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9021-5.)

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