Race and Place
School Desegregation in Prince George's County, Maryland
Race and Place considers the everyday experiences of community members throughout the process of school desegregation and how race, place, and truth came to matter in this process in Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1945 through 1973.
Not Alone
LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985
An Age of Accountability
How Standardized Testing Came to Dominate American Schools and Compromise Education
An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education. Even after very clear disappointments no other policy framework has emerged to challenge its hegemony, and many Americans continue to believe that accountability remains a vital necessity, even if educators and policy scholars disagree.
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights
An Unseen Unheard Minority
Asian American Students at the University of Illinois
Crossing Segregated Boundaries
Remembering Chicago School Desegregation
Blaming Teachers
Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History
In Blaming Teachers, Diana D'Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers’ professional legitimacy. Policymakers and school leaders understood teacher professionalization initiatives as efficient ways to bolster the bureaucratic order of the schools rather than as means to amplify teachers’ authority and credibility.
