Books,+Articles,+and+Reviews

Herbert Kliebard, //The Struggle for the American Curriculum: 1893-1958// (NY: Routledge, 1995) Kate Rousmaniere, //City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform// (NY: TCPress, 1997) James T. Patterson, //Brown v. Board of Education// (NY: Oxford UP, 2001) Larry Cuban and David Tyack, //Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform// (Harvard UP, 1997) Jonathan Kozol, //Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools// (NY: Harper, 1991)
 * Book List (in order of appearance in class)**

Diane Ravitch, // The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and //// Choice are Undermining Education // (Basic Books, 2010)

New File

Diane Ravitch Diane Ravitch Gary Nash
 * Week Nine:**

Reading Schedule

MAT513 Summer 2011

**Week Six: July 18/20 History of (in)equality of educational opportunity**

Scott Baker, “Testing Equality: The National Teacher Examination and the NAACP’s Legal Campaign to Equalize Teachers’ Salaries in the South, 1936-1963” //HEQ// 35 (1995): 49-64.

Patterson, Brown V. Board of Education, ch 1-6 Brown -- full opinion (in class)

Open Response

**Week Seven: July 25/27** **Education in the 1970s /80s** Patterson, //Brown v. Board of Education//, chapters 7, 8, 9 Kozol, //Savage Inequalities// Read the 1st chapter on St. Louis and the chapter on New York, PLUS one other chapter of your choice. Read beyond that to the point that you have to stop yourself. Reagan Administration: “A Nation at Risk” (1984) Response prompt: Using these readings as background, and write an op-ed piece for a newspaper that discusses a current issue in education.

**Week Eight: August 1/3 Throwing up our Hands and the Nostalgia of the Past** Cuban, //Tinkering Toward Utopia//, Intro, Ch 1, Ch 2 FIRST SET of RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

**Week Nine: August 8/10** **The Culture Wars: Education and the Conservative Backlash** Essay Packet [to be distributed] including: Diane Ravitch, “Politicization and the Schools: The Case of Bilingual Education” //Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society// (June 1985): 121-28. Gary Nash, “The History Standards Controversy and Social History” //Journal of Social History// (1995): 39-49. Diane Ravitch, “Who Prepares Our History Teachers? Who Should Prepare Our History Teachers” //History Teacher// (Aug 1998): 495-503 and more... SECOND SET of RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

Ravitch, //Death and Life of the Great American School System// Gerald Bracey, “What Happened to America's Schools?” //American Heritage// 1997//.// THIRD SET of RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
 * Week Ten: August 15/17 **** Diane Ravitch through the ages... **

Week Seven "A Nation at Risk"
 * Weekly Readings**

Article for week six, July 11/20

Baker... NAACP and teacher testing 1930s -- on jstor.... (I'll post it soon, when I have a minute to download it... If you need it, use the biblio info on the syllabus to find it on JStor.)

Articles for week five, July 4/6

Articles for week four, June 27/29 "Measuring Mental Fitness" is too big a file to upload to the wiki -- boo!

Articles for week two, June 13/15



Articles for 1st class, June 6/8

Interesting Reads