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Perham, Arnold E.; Perham, Faustine L. – Mathematics Teacher, 2015
The Transcontinental Railroad began laying track east from Sacramento, California, in 1863 and west from Omaha, Nebraska, in 1865; the two lines eventually met in Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869. One of the train towns, Ogallala, Nebraska, consisted of only a section house and water tank alongside newly laid track. Over the next few years, train…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, United States History, Transportation
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Jones, Patrick M. – Music Educators Journal, 2015
The Naval School of Music was founded in 1935 in response to the poor performance level of the U.S. Navy's bands at that time. The school evolved from an adjunct operation of the U.S. Navy Band into a tri-service institution serving the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps with dedicated facilities, courses for musicians and band leaders, and courses to…
Descriptors: Music Education, Armed Forces, Musical Instruments, Military Personnel
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Preston, John – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
In the 1960s federal agencies in the US encouraged the building of protected schools designed to survive a nuclear attack. A number of designs, including underground schools, were constructed. In order to promote the building of protected schools, the US government produced a number of propaganda films for school boards and governors. In addition…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, War, National Security
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Gaby, Sarah – Youth & Society, 2017
Civic participation in the United States is highly unequal, resulting in a "civic engagement gap" between socioeconomic, racial, and gender groups. Variation in civic participation and the civic engagement gap remain contested, primarily as a result of inconsistent definitions and measurement issues in previous work. Using consistent…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Socioeconomic Influences, Youth, United States History
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Santiago, Maribel – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2017
"Mendez v. Westminster," a case about 1940s Mexican American school segregation, is a new vehicle for including Mexican Americans into U.S. history classrooms. This study explores how a class of primarily Mexican American students, who because of their heritage might develop a personal connection to the case, made sense of…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, School Segregation, Court Litigation, United States History
Orlando, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2017
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of a history teacher's ability to historically contextualize primary sources. Contextualization gives life to primary sources that many students feel are flat and lifeless. Moreover, due to their limited experience and knowledge, preservice teachers often lack the sophistication to thematically…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Interviews, Preservice Teachers, Primary Sources
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Brock, Melissa Eckert; Rossatto, Cesar A. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The plight of students in the United States has been one of repeated socialization toward dehumanizing divides trapped in policies with a history of reproducing oppression and social stratification. The voice of reason has left the educational policy debates as the idea of equity and access in schooling has been replaced and confused by neoliberal…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Bias, Social Stratification, Equal Education
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Debenport, Erin – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2018
Discussions about migration, geography, and Indigenous language use are key ways that community members perform, negotiate, and contest identities and politics in multilingual Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, a federally-recognized Native nation located within the city of El Paso, Texas. This linguistic anthropological piece illustrates how tribal members…
Descriptors: American Indians, Self Concept, Multilingualism, American Indian Languages
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McCorkle, William David – Journal of International Social Studies, 2018
The contentious modern immigration debate in the United States is often void of historical context and thus filled with fallacious narratives. To confront this trend, social studies educators should place the issues of modern immigration within their proper historical framework. This paper looks at three primary themes educators can explore: the…
Descriptors: Immigration, Public Policy, Social Justice, Stranger Reactions
McLaughlin, Milbrey W. – Harvard Education Press, 2018
"You Can't Be What You Can't See" presents a rare longitudinal account of the benefits of a high-quality, out-of-school program on the life trajectories of hundreds of poor, African American youth who grew up in Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project in the 1980s and early '90s. The result of a five-year research project by…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Poverty, At Risk Persons, African Americans
Lloyd, Chrishana M.; Carlson, Julianna; Alvira-Hammond, Marta – Child Trends, 2021
This issue brief is one in a series examining timely topics that are relevant to Black families and children in the United States. The series identifies key information and opportunities for consideration by policymakers, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, and others interested in supporting the progress of Black families and…
Descriptors: African American Family, African American Children, Public Policy, Access to Education
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2021
The purpose of "Brave Dialogues: A Guide to Discussing Racial Equity in Career Technical Education" is to provide state Career Technical Education (CTE) leaders with tools to engage in discussion around racial equity in CTE and to support state CTE leaders in creating an environment in which all stakeholders have the language and comfort…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Equal Education, Vocational Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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McInnis, Edward – American Educational History Journal, 2016
Reformers during the antebellum period of American history frequently expressed contradictory ideas on the topic of female education. These contradictions illustrate the challenge historians face in pinning down the female educational vision held by antebellum-era reformers. That the classics comprised the core of colonial and revolutionary era…
Descriptors: Females, Social Change, United States History, Womens Education
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Place, Greg S. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of early-life educational experiences on the development of environmental attitudes among historical conservation individuals. Five key individuals who were active in conservation and environmental issues were identified in this study. Specifically, the goal was to discover what caused…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Educational Experience, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment)
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Gamson, David A.; Hodge, Emily M. – Review of Research in Education, 2016
Despite decades of critiques and scores of innovations designed to abolish or weaken it, the school district remains a central institution of the American educational system. Yet, although the district remains the primary agent of local democratic control and serves as the main unit for educational decisions, relatively little attention has been…
Descriptors: Educational Research, School Districts, Educational History, Educational Change
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