Raup, drew him irresistibly toward the history of American education. He completed his MA and PhD and joined... he Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876–1957 won the Bancroft Prize in American History and established him as the pre-eminent historian of American education; his three-volume American Education tr
==== Biography =====
Diane Silvers Ravitch is an American historian of education, public intellectual, and ... ork has both chronicled and altered the course of American schooling for nearly half a century. Born on July... = The Great School Wars and the Historiography of American Public Schooling ====
Ravitch's first major scho... n working-class children. She argued instead that American schools had in fact served a liberal mission, pro
ool of Education and Social Policy and in African American Studies. With a Ph.D. in education emphasizing cu... ted in challenging deficit-thinking about African American students and promoting an asset-based and ecologi... ceived numerous prestigious awards, including the American Educational Research Association's Distinguished ... n award and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. Her
x, leaving an intellectual legacy that shaped the American founding, European liberalism, and the educationa... ent educational theory and on the founders of the American republic, who drew extensively on Locke's argumen... ndence and the constitutional arrangements of the American republic makes Locke, at least in part, an archit... in democratic civic education.
==== Influence on American Democratic Education ====
Locke's influence on A
es, becoming one of the most widely read works of American history. He died on 27 January 2010 in Santa Moni... e Zinn Reader (2010) — that the history taught in American schools is a history told from the viewpoint of t... critical eye.
==== Debunking National Interest, American Exceptionalism, and Patriotism ====
Zinn's educa... mong the most powerful and most damaging myths in American political culture: the idea of a unitary "nationa
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Geoffrey Canada is an American educator, social entrepreneur, author, and commun... enough to increase achievement among the poor? //American Economic Journal: Applied Economics//, 3(3), 158–... dressing the childhood asthma crisis in Harlem. //American Journal of Public Health//, 95(2), 245–249.
* J... R. G. (2011). Are high-quality schools enough? //American Economic Journal: Applied Economics//, 3(3), 158–
al lecturer, committed socialist, suffragist, and American ambassador; she supported the Industrial Workers ... er, H. (2000). //To love this life: Quotations//. American Foundation for the Blind.
* Nielsen, K. E. (200... F. C., Gulliksen, O. T., & Sirevag, T. (2013). //American culture: An anthology//. Routledge.
==== Legacy,... Yet her legacy has been systematically distorted: American textbooks and children's literature have suppress
displaced behavourism as the dominant paradigm in American psychology. His report from the 1959 Woods Hole C... y read and influential document in the history of American curriculum reform. After nearly three decades at ... es on six continents, was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British A... e aftermath of the Sputnik crisis to consider how American science education could be fundamentally improved
stitutional learning. Impressed by this work, the American educator Charles Wedemeyer at the University of W... nd many others. He was the founding editor of The American Journal of Distance Education, the first DE journ... conference in the United States, established the American Centre for the Study of Distance Education, and c... 89, Moore published a seven-page editorial in The American Journal of Distance Education that established on
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Charles William Eliot was an American academic who served as the President of Harvard U... rofound influence not just on [[Harvard]], but on American higher education in general. He emphasized electi... d shape the structure and standards of the modern American university system.
Eliot had established a reput... mism seen in some European universities and newer American colleges like MIT. There was a growing consensus
lemical engagements with the political economy of American education. He transferred to the University of Ne... ly in the profession, serving as President of the American Educational Research Association in 1974–76 — the... against the privatisation and standardisation of American public schools.
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=... ntroduced in his 1976 presidential address to the American Educational Research Association, subsequently pu
and the history of the Greek, Roman, English, and American republics. The most promising boys from poor fami... later state school systems. The bill is an early American articulation of the idea that a republic must fin... ng informed voters — became a defining premise of American public schooling and a recurring touchstone for l... marked a decisive secular turn that still shapes American debates over religion in public education.
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Biography =====
Benjamin Franklin was a renowned American polymath, statesman, scientist, inventor, author,... of Pennsylvania. Franklin was a key figure in the American Revolution, serving as a diplomat in France and h... making him one of the most influential figures in American history.
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==== The... min Franklin's autobiography is a classic text of American literature that provides valuable insights into h
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Eric A. Hanushek is an American economist whose work over more than five decades ... economic growth. Across landmark articles in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Literatu... oundational contribution, developed from his 1971 American Economic Review article through his 1986 Journal ... student achievement: Estimation using micro data. American Economic Review, 60(2), 280–288.
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, Mann is today acknowledged as the father of the American public school system.
===== Key Contributions ==... mework of ideals, practices, and expectations for American public education, and their influence extended be... edge of the primary duties of a man." By 1870 all American states had established free elementary schools, d... pates, with striking precision, what contemporary American schools now label social and emotional learning (
