The Marquis de Condorcet proposed a progressive restructuring of French schools and colleges that has modern parallels with lifelong learning. However, his plans were thwarted by the Jacobin party, which found Rousseau's ideas more conducive to its political aims. (SK)

Demonstrates how an issue of the "Journal of Basic Writing," published in 1980 as a memorial for theorist Mina Shaughnessy, resembles structurally the funeral orations of Ancient Greece. Divides the issue into three parts: praise, lament, and consolation. Discusses political implications of the issue. (HB)

Discusses the early twentieth-century perception that Harvard writing scholars influenced writing instruction and literary scholarship and that individuals of stature at Cornell, Michigan, and Columbia universities thought it was a bad thing and resented it with considerable intensity. Tells the story in personal correspondence, MLA resolutions,…

Describes the aim of the American Economic Association (AEA) to educate the public about economic questions and economic literature. Discusses conferences, publications, and the work of the AEA in developing economics, statistics, and reasoning as important parts of a general curriculum. Includes information on teacher training programs, advanced…

Explores the role of women in eighteenth-century Germany's University of Halle. Reports that the school admitted both male and female students. Explains that the university's central principle, the conquest of the world through personal effort, was viewed as well suited to women, who had not been tainted by academic tradition. (SG)

Supplies a list of important dates and events in the development of social studies as an educational discipline. Focuses on the social studies prototype and the foundations of the field before the 1916 report by the Committee on the Social Studies. Includes details about significant organizations, individuals, publications, and reports. (DK)

Explores the modern history of homework, beginning with its origins in eighteenth-century England. Discusses early educational reformers' resistance to homework. Reports that former Soviet space advances spurred a U.S. reexamination of homework through the 1960s and 1970s. Examines the contemporary view of homework as an inexpensive means of…

Considers the current relevance of the practice of observation of children through an exploration of the role of observation in the work of Friedrich Froebel, Susan Isaacs, and Margaret McMillan. (BC)

Discusses the way in which American high school remedial reading programs became staffed. Suggests that progress has been slow in terms of preparing teachers to work with students who have reading difficulties. (RS)

Describes the founding of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES), tracing the evolution of philosophy of education. The article compares the purposes of the progressive educational journal, "The Social Frontier," and the PES and examines various other publications, explaining choices made in efforts to professionalize philosophy of…

Presents a case study of curricular development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Examines the curricular relevance of mass communication in a social science research context to professionally oriented undergraduates. Discusses the concept of curriculum and the implications of Paulo Freire's…

Discusses John Dewey's concept of curriculum, as applied in his Laboratory School. Describes the planning of the school and how its curriculum evolved over time. Identifies both Dewey's belief in educational specialization and his understanding of its limits. Notes the implications of Dewey's work for today's educators. (SG)

The economic and social upheavals of the Civil War upon the South gave impetus to the development of vocational training for employment, such as Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute and the first school for manual skills training in Saint Louis. Southern senators and representatives pioneered federal legislation that led to the modern…

Examines the history of the commonplace book and diary as used in teaching and relates this history to the advent of the pedagogical journal. Shows that certain teaching strategies can make the journal a valuable means of exploring the mix of public and private impulses found in all writing. (MG)

Explores the relationship between the traditional methods of teaching composition, beginning in the late nineteenth century and the cultural matrix in which it took shape. Describes the changing student demographics and the ritual mechanisms within a very well-defined sociocultural and pedagogical context. (HB)