Democracy & Education 6/24/2025 This response argues that it is reasonable to consider Thomas Jefferson a proponent of democratic education. It suggests that Jefferson's education proposals sought to ensure the wide distribution of knowledge and that Jefferson's...
Project Muse 12/1/2021 I think I have a good doctor. But is there a way to be certain? Successful healthcare, like education, depends on both the quality of providers and the responses and actions of recipients. Without a strong background in medicine, I rely on my...
Kappan 3/26/2020 The founders of the nation’s public school system aimed to provide all students with a liberal education, but in recent decades, reformers have all but forgotten that mission.
The University Of Chicago Press Journals 9/1/2019 The Yale Reports of 1828 are one of the most important documents in American higher education. They established the parameters of liberal education for much of the nineteenth century. Scholars have argued over whether...
Democracy & Education 4/29/2018 The Common Core does not advance democratic education. Far from it, the opening section of the language standards argues that the goal of public K–12 education is “college and career readiness.” Only at the end of their introductory...
The Johns Hopkins University Press 6/1/2016 Reviews in American History Vol. 44, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 342-355
Cambridge University Press 12/15/2013 An investment of upward of three millions of dollars in permanent structures, and an annual expenditure of nearly three millions of dollars—nine tenths of which sum last named is produced by taxation—is a financial fact of great...
Taylor & Francis Online 1/31/2012 This article draws upon writings by social studies educators and historians to articulate a new approach to training history teachers. We argue that the divide between advocates of historical thinking and of historical content can...