-- Here's a fascinating factoid: 200 years ago, the literacy rate among free black women in New England was higher than white women in the South. , another U-M professor who specializes in the history ...
Students took what they could get in the 1950s at Stanford. “This was not a time in which people raised big questions about what they were being taught,” history and humanities professor emeritus ...
As the U.S. becomes more racially diverse, K-12 classrooms are too. But, the discussions surrounding diversity in history classrooms are advancing at a much slower pace. Often, the history taught in ...
The history of computers in education has been variously characterized as an "accidental revolution" or "unthinking man and his thinking machines." Others have said that the computer revolution has ...
In his book, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, philosopher George Santayana wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" (p. 115). A confluence of readings ...
Education is one of the most powerful means to build peace and justice, uphold human dignity, and nurture global citizenship. Yet for generations, learners in Africa and beyond have encountered ...
When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and that our society goes to a great deal of trouble and expense to ...
When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and that our society goes to a great deal of trouble and expense to ...