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Carol Burris; Johann Neem – History of Education Quarterly, 2024
Public education, at least as it has been known for the past several generations in the US, is under threat. Conservative state legislatures from Arizona to Florida have enacted sweeping voucher legislation, channeling taxpayer dollars to private schools. At the same time, a vicious culture war has engulfed the public education system in…
Descriptors: Public Education, Charter Schools, School Choice, Educational Vouchers
Justice, Benjamin – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
Schooling in the United States has never been a public good, nor has "the public good" been its primary goal. Since its origins in the early nineteenth century, schooling has been a "white" good, designed to promote white advantage. Three mechanisms, among many, have been key to this process: the relationship of schooling to…
Descriptors: Education, Whites, Racial Factors, Racism
Lefty, Lauren – History of Education Quarterly, 2021
Through a focus on liberal academic and policy networks, this article considers how ideas and practices central to an educational "war on poverty" grew through connections between postwar Puerto Rico, Latin America, and New York. In particular, it analyzes how social scientific ideas about education's role in economic development found…
Descriptors: Poverty, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Economic Development
Duncan, Leanna – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
Many rights struggles have promoted education and learning as proof of citizenship and capacity, and disability rights movements are no exception. Blanche Van Leuven Browne, one early twentieth-century polio survivor, reimagined the possibilities of education for "crippled children" by approaching schooling as not only preparation for…
Descriptors: Educational History, Students with Disabilities, Civil Rights, Diseases
Hines, Michael – History of Education Quarterly, 2016
Even though the black community of antebellum New York City lived in a society that marginalized them socially and economically, they were intent on pursuing the basic privileges of American citizenship. One tactic African Americans employed to this end was the tenacious pursuit of education, which leaders believed would act both as an aid in…
Descriptors: African Americans, Urban Areas, United States History, Social Bias