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Peer reviewedAdams, Paul K. – Social Studies Journal, 1988
Discusses the post-Civil War movement for democratic and social reform in U.S. colleges, particularly those in Pennsylvania. Focuses on the efforts of James P. Wickersham to increase state control of universities and high schools in order to develop a centralized educational bureaucracy. Concludes that Wickersham's ideas provided a foundation for…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Educational Change, Educational History, Higher Education
Goodlad, John I., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This book utilizes 29 case histories of geographically and institutionally diverse teacher education programs to provide a comprehensive historical perspective on teacher education in the United States. The volume, organized into four parts, is further divided into nine chapters. "Part One: "Teacher Education: A Contemporary Perspective…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Segregation, Diversity (Institutional), Economic Factors
