Education - History

In addition to chronicling his professional achievements, bruce lee: the legend lives on delves into his personal life-his role as a husband to linda lee cadwell and father to brandon lee and shannon lee-and how they coped with their loss while continuing his legacy...

Burritt College Centennial Celebration, August 13-15, 1948 - Address by Charles Lee LewisAs Daniel Webster said in his famous speech on the Dartmouth College Case, so do we say of Burritt College, Though it is a little college, there are those who love it....

"Essential reading."- KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR"A must read."-KAI BIRD"In a time of terminal cynicism, Pawel gives us hope."-JERRY BROWN Pulitzer Prize winner Miriam Pawel's epic history of one of the world's elite public universities, its sweeping social impact, and hopeful lessons about endurance in troubled times....

Cambridge PapersThis volume contains papers on some questions of local history put together, mostly for undergraduate societies and magazines, at various times during the last twenty-five years. I have included a memoir, written for a London Society, on Newtons Principia, a work that profoundly...

A provocative, critical take on the traditional narrative of US history--and a call to reimagine America's past. According to textbooks, the media, and politicians of all stripes, the story of the United States is one of steady progress toward a "more perfect union." In...

Christian Schools and Scholars - or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of TrentThe following pages have been written with the view of presenting a general and connected sketch of the history of Christian Education down to the period of...

Coach of the Building chronicles the career of Richard Carty, an educator in Pennsylvania whose three decades in education included coaching, serving as a school disciplinarian, planning and facilitating the opening of a new high school, and later transitioning into the elementary school level...

A bold and foundational history of the inception and evolution of intercollegiate athletics in the United States.In College Sports, historians Eric A. Moyen and John R. Thelin tell the intriguing story of the success--and excess--of American college sports from their inception to today. Arguing...

History Pockets-Colonial America, Grades 4-6, contains eight discovery pockets.The introduction pocket gives an overview of the settlement of the thirteen original colonies. The other pockets feature a look at the aspects of colonial life in the northern, middle, and southern colonies.Each pocket contains: a...

Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational ReformThe present volume is an effort to trace the reform movement in education from Vives, Bacon, and Ratke to Comenius, who gave the movement its most significant force and direction; and from him to the later reformers,Francke, Rousseau,...

Today, many states have proposed so-called "Don't Say Gay" bills that prohibit public school teachers from mentioning LGBTQ topics in the classroom. But a few states, like California, have taken decisive steps in the other direction. They mandate inclusive education that treats LGBTQ history...

What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in art, architecture,...

"Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry"--Guardian "An excellent and important book"--Journal of Education, Innovation, and Communication To Professor Peter Fleming, there is a strong link between the neo-liberalization of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured...

From bestselling author Julia Cook, comes a story about the challenging (and fun) changes a military family goes through when a parent is deployed."I think I'm pretty lucky because I'm part of a military family. It makes me really proud to know my parents...

Law shapes culture. Religion shapes culture. Education shapes culture. Institutional policies and practices shape culture.This foundational premise drives Diagnosing Whiteness & Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Trauma, and Collective Psychosis in America, a bold and incisive exploration of the construction of race-specifically Whiteness-as a socio-political, socio-cultural,...

Dorothea Beale of CheltenhamMiss Beale left ample materials for the history of her work. Not only were all business documents, such as minutes of council meetings, nomination papers, examination questions carefully preserved, she kept also all letters which could be of any interest. She...

Early English Meals and MannersIf these characters do not display properly, or if the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. First, make sure that the browsers character set or file encoding...

American public universities were founded in a civic tradition that differentiated them from their European predecessors-steering away from the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Like many such higher education institutions across the United States, the University of Wisconsin's mission, known as the...

The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism"...

Education in England in the Middle Ages - Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of LondonThe history of education during the Middle Ages is closely interwoven with the history of the Church. Professor Foster Watson quotes with approval...