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Hiram Hover’s gone
Hiram Hover’s pseudonymous blog is now gone, not only on hiatus but now unavailable from the domain and only available in snippets from archive.org. D***.
Americas secondary enrollment trace, late 20th c.
Thanks to a a great Excel chart tip, I can now provide one way of summarizing synthetic-cohort educational attainment data from the following countries using census data from the second half of the 20th century: Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador Those born in Mexico and enumerated in either Mexico or the U.S. in 1960, […]
Corporate donors and universities
From the cutting-room floor: Adam Emerson and I talked for about half an hour last weekend while he was preparing today’s article, Corporate U, and I think he did a nice job of putting the corporate sponsorship of one university program into a broader national contemporary perspective. I shouldn’t be surprised that the historical perspective was […]
Education history and school renewal
Today’s brief N.Y. Times story, Massachusetts Acts To Save the Country’s First Public High School, is about efforts to revive academics in the first public high school, which opened in the 1820s. The school is troubled, far from its origins as part of the 19th century expansion of the public sphere into tertiary education English […]
The Loeb Rule
A few days ago, I asked if any readers knew the history of early teacher unionization and the Loeb Rule. In comments, CCPhysicist asked for an explanation, so here it is, briefly: Until 1917, there was a forceful teachers union in Chicago, the Chicago Teachers Federation, led for a number of years by Margaret Haley. […]