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Strength Through Diversity
Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism
Rutgers University Press
In Strength Through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg traces the inspiring, uncharted history of Harlem Prep, a unique multicultural institution that became an educational phenomenon in the iconic Black neighborhood of Harlem and nationwide. From 1967 to 1974, Harlem Prep sent to college many hundreds of students who had previously been labeled as “dropouts,” demonstrating how a multicultural educational program centered on diversity can provide a blueprint for schools today.
Rank-and-File Rebels
Theories of Power and Change in the 2018 Education Strikes
By Erin Dyke and Brendan Muckian-Bates
The WAC Clearinghouse
In spring 2018, a wave of rank-and-file rebellion swept schools across the south and southwest United States, among other places. Educators in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona pushed their trade unions, school boards, and school administrations to shut schools down to increase wages, halt rising healthcare costs, and restore public education funding.
Wake
Why the Battle over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters
Rutgers University Press
Wake: Why the Battle Over Diverse Public Schools Still Matters tells the story of the aftermath of the 2009 Wake County school board election in favor of "neighborhood schools," including the fierce public debate that ensued during school board meetings and in the pages of the local newspaper, and the groundswell of community support that voted in a pro-diversity school board in 2011. What was at stake in those years was the fundamental direction of the largest school district in North Carolina and the 14th largest in the U.S. Would it maintain a commitment to diverse schools, and if so, how would it balance that commitment with various competing interests and demands? Through hundreds of published opinion articles and several in depth interviews with community leaders, Wake examines the substance of that debate and explores the community’s vision for public education.
The Composition Commons
Writing a New Idea of the University
By Jessica Yood
Utah State University Press
The Composition Commons traces the century-long origins of a writing-centered idea of the American university and tracks the resurgence of this idea today.
Making the Radical University
Identity and Politics on the American College Campus, 1966–1991
University of Massachusetts Press
Not Alone
LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985
Rutgers University Press
Between 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual educators (LGB) formed communities and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and representation in the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers in New York, Los Angeles and Northern California.
A Dream of Justice
The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools
By Pat Pascoe
University Press of Colorado
A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools.
Lessons in Legitimacy
Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia
UBC Press
Lessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and the making of British Columbia.
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights
By Margaret A. Nash and Karen L. Graves
Rutgers University Press
In the first in-depth treatment of the foundational legal case Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District, authors Margaret A. Nash and Karen L. Graves tell the story of that case and of Marjorie Rowland, the pioneer who fought for employment rights for LGBTQ educators and who paid a heavy price for that fight. It brings the story of LGBTQ educators’ rights to the present, including commentary on Bostock v Clayton County, the 2020 Supreme Court case that struck down employment discrimination against LGBT workers.
The Marion Thompson Wright Reader
Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Rutgers University Press
In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright’s classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work. Thompson’s work and her life are highly significant to the history of New Jersey, African Americans, women’s, and education history. Drawing upon Wright's work, existing scholarship, and new archival research, this new landmark scholarly edition, which includes an all-new biography of this pioneering scholar, underscores the continued relevance of Marion Thompson Wright.
An Unseen Unheard Minority
Asian American Students at the University of Illinois
By Sharon S. Lee; Foreword by Joy Williamson- Lott
Rutgers University Press
As they were not underrepresented, Asian American students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were denied minority student services. Over many decades, Asian American students fought to be seen and heard, challenging the university’s narrow view of minority students, and changing campus resources for Asian Americans.
The Shoulders We Stand On
A History of Bilingual Education in New Mexico
Edited by Rebecca Blum Martínez and Mary Jean Habermann López
University of New Mexico Press
The Shoulders We Stand On traces the complex history of bilingual education in New Mexico, covering Spanish, Diné, and Pueblo languages.
Crossing Segregated Boundaries
Remembering Chicago School Desegregation
By Dionne Danns
Rutgers University Press
Students who attended desegregated schools in the 1980s actively engaged to make integration work while navigating segregated boundaries. Crossing Segregated Boundaries details the struggles that students, schools, and communities undergo to integrate, and highlights how Chicago’s implementation of desegregation focused on school choice and used public transportation to avert busing protests.
Transforming the Canadian History Classroom
Imagining a New "We"
UBC Press
Transforming the Canadian History Classroom is a call for a radically innovative practice that places students – the stories they carry and the histories they want to be part of – at the centre of history education.
Blaming Teachers
Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History
Rutgers University Press
In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers’ professional legitimacy. Policymakers and school leaders understood teacher professionalization initiatives as efficient ways to bolster the bureaucratic order of the schools rather than as means to amplify teachers’ authority and credibility.
Dr. David Murray
Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879
Rutgers University Press
This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. Murray’s unwavering commitment to the modernization of Japanese education renders him an educational pioneer in early Meiji Japan.
Military Education and the British Empire, 1815–1949
UBC Press
Bringing together the world’s leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives within a comparative context to expose the role of military education in maintaining empire.
Postsecondary Education in British Columbia
Public Policy and Structural Development, 1960–2015
By Robert Cowin
UBC Press
Postsecondary Education in British Columbia is a thoughtful critical analysis of the role of social justice, human capital, and the market in the development of institutions and public policy in BC education since 1960.
To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down
Tuskegee University’s Advancements in Human Health, 1881–1987
University of Alabama Press
An important historical account of Tuskegee University’s significant advances in health care, which affected millions of lives worldwide
More Than Science and Sputnik
The National Defense Education Act of 1958
University of Alabama Press
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the National Defense Education Act.
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