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Paulsen, Michael B., Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2017
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Scholarship, Instruction
Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe – 1999
This book traces the history of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching from its founding in 1906 through 1979. A 1999 foreword by the current president of the Foundation notes the influence of the book and briefly updates the foundation's history. The foreword reiterates the book's judgment that the foundation's policies typically…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Development
Beecher, Henry K.; Altschule, Mark D. – 1977
An assessment of Harvard's contributions to medicine is less a chronology than an introduction to key discoveries and the ideas that made them possible, presented in the framework of medical education. The emphasis is on the men themselves as well as their medicine. Of major concern are the roles played by the University of Pennsylvania Medical…
Descriptors: Deans, Educational History, Higher Education, Medical Education
Watras, Joseph – 1997
The political controversies surrounding the racial desegregation of public and private schools are explored using the example of Dayton (Ohio) and its 40-year effort to overcome segregation. The book examines ways business leaders, clergy, elected officials, judges, teachers, and school administrators reacted to challenges to patterns of student…
Descriptors: Conflict, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Ch'i, Hsi-sheng – 1997
This volume traces the history of a collaboration between the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and China's National Center for Education Development Research. The collaboration, which began in 1988, was initiated to conduct a comparative study of education in the two countries through information exchanges and seminars.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational History
Haase, Patricia T. – 1990
This book offers an analytical history of the associate degree nursing (ADN) program and the role of associate degree nurses in the U.S. health care system. It covers the period from just after World War II to the middle of the 1980s. The support of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Federal Government for ADN education is highlighted. Chapter…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Educational History, Federal Aid, Federal Programs