education history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/18/2021
  

  Today's Educator Shortages are a Product of Decades of Bullying and Ignoring Teachers

  by Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz

  Again and again, politicians and administrators have implemented policies that make teaching unattractive work, then acted surprised when people chose other options. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/2021
  

  Laugh at Parodies of School Board Meetings, but Take Local Politics Seriously

  by Lily Geismer and Eitan D. Hersh

  Local politics – if it involves a wide spectrum of community opinion – can help override partisan polarization, create new coalitions, and empower citizens to make meaningful change.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  10/11/2021
  

  The Welsh Schoolboys Who Went on Strike Against Corporal Punishment in 1911

  Historian Russell Grigg says that the student action represented a refusal of the rule-by-terror of caning. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/1/2021
  

  Teaching the Good and Bad of History Empowers Students to Build Just Communities

  by Mirelsie Velázquez

  Oklahoma's new law restricting teaching about past racial atrocities will make it hard to teach about how Black and Native Oklahomans have responded to discrimination and fought for racial justice. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/27/2021
  

  Don't Forget that "School Choice" Originated in Massive Resistance to Desegregation

  by Nancy MacLean

  "Rather than giving families more school options, school choice became a tool intended to give most families far fewer in the end."

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  9/17/2021
  

  Indentured Students: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Student Debt (Monday, October 4)

  Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that Democrats and Republicans intentionally wanted to create a student loan industry instead of generously funding colleges and universities, which eventually left millions of Americans drowning in student debt. Zoom, Monday, Oct. 4, 4:00 PM EDT.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/14/2021
  

  Black American Educators: New Laws Silence Us

  Historians of education and civil rights suggest that Black teachers may be justified in fearing that new content-based restrictions on teaching history may subject them to more disciplinary action than their white colleagues. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Beast
  9/13/2021
  

  Will Homeschool Moms be Steve Bannon's Latest Political Shock Troops?

  Bannon's call to parents to withdraw their children from school to protest "Critical Race Theory" echoes the infamous 1974 Kanawha County, West Virginia Textbook Wars. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  9/12/2021
  

  (Review) The Struggle for Black Education: On Jarvis R. Givens’s “Fugitive Pedagogy”

  by Randal Maurice Jelks

  Jarvis R. Givens's new study of the life of Carter G. Woodson emphasizes Woodson's work to advance Black education in an American social setting that was profoundly hostile to Black achievement and equality. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/6/2021
  

  America's School Board Hearings are Getting Scary, but it's not the First Time

  "Public schools have long been an irresistible battleground for America’s culture warriors."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/7/2021
  

  If it Wasn't Clear, COVID Shows Teachers Don't Get "Summers Off"

  by Christine A. Ogrem

  School authorities have long sought to control teachers' use of summer time, while hiding behind the fiction of a 9-month employment contract. It's time to empower teachers to control that time for themselves and their schools. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  

  Those Who Can Do: Rewriting the History of Literary Studies from Inside the Classroom

  by Dennis M. Hogan

  A new history of literature pedagogy reconsiders teaching as a site of intellectual ferment and makes important claims for the value of the academic humanities. 

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• SOURCE: EdSurge
  9/6/2021
  

  How Civil Rights Pioneer Bob Moses Changed Math Education

  "More than a decade after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Moses realized that the next frontier was economic justice, and that fluency in math and science was the springboard for peoples of color and low-income whites to be full citizens, fully enfranchised—the civil rights issue of the 21st century."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/25/2021
  

  Organized Teachers Developed the Charter School Idea. Return to Their Original Design

  by Jon Hale

  Conservative education reformers have hijacked the original charter school movement, stripping away labor protections and turning the management of public resources to private interests. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/9/2021
  

  Can School Discipline Be Fixed?

  by Campbell F. Scribner

  "One might reasonably ask, 'By what right do schools punish students in the first place?' Unfortunately, Americans have never really been able to answer that question."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/30/2021
  

  Will Black Students Return to Schools After COVID?

  by Adam Laats

  There is reason to believe that the COVID crisis will push many Black parents to conclude that their local public schools are failing their children and to seek alternatives. In the past, similar movements have pointed the way to new models of education. 

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  7/12/2021
  

  First It Was Sex Ed. Now It’s Critical Race Theory

  Republican attacks on cultural issues within America’s public schools follow a familiar pattern.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6/29/2021
  

  Many Children Left Behind: How American Schools Became so Unequal

  Christina Groeger's new book upends the American faith in education as an engine of social mobility and a cure for inequality. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  6/9/2021
  

  Education Failed To Be An Equalizer In Boston — A Review Of “The Education Trap”

  by Erika M. Kitzmiller

  A new book looks at the long history of education reform in Boston and concludes that, as in the 19th century, expecting education to fix the problems of an unequal society is wishful thinking. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/19/2021
  

  What Is Critical Race Theory And Why Did Oklahoma Just Ban It?

  by Kathryn Schumaker

  Attacks on "critical race theory" in Oklahoma's legislature are part of a political effort to prevent discussion of the state's racist past – the legislature made CRT a culture war issue as the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre approaches. Here's why we need more, not less, of the ideas behind CRT.