What is the purpose of remembering? Should education historians work together to remember a shared past? In 1999, Sol Cohen suggested “historians of American education (and their students and anyone interested in the history of education as a field of study) have to be reminded of this past because published work is situated within the […]
Education's Histories
methodological grist for the history of educationArchive for July, 2015
Desegregating Chicago’s Public Schools: Policy Implementation, Politics, and Protest, 1965-1985. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 260 pp. $100.00 * The title paraphrases words spoken by President Kennedy in 1961 at the 14th annual convention of Americans for Democratic Action. There has been a proliferation of historical scholarship over the past twenty years addressing school desegregation […]