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State High School Exit Examination database
University of Minnesota sociologist Rob Warren has created a database listing the historical development of State High School Exit Examinations. This is the type of baseline work that makes other research possible. Thanks, Rob!
Sweden ho! (in June)
In late June, I’m headed outside North America for the first time since 1973. It’s for the 2007 meeting of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, and appropriately enough I committed myself to looking at educational attainment internationally. Even though I’m late with the registration, it’s a virtual steal, only 1000 kronors, and […]
Of Diane Ravitch and presentism
In an amended entry earlier today, I noted my being a Michael Katz student and somehow still not having fits at the sight of Diane Ravitch’s name. (As far as I’m aware, Michael doesn’t, either.) That doesn’t mean that I agree with her substantive scholarship, and I’ll repeat here a 2004 contribution I made to […]
Arizona legislators want historians to stop talking about Brown v. Board of Education
John Wilson points out the obvious flaws in Arizona SB 1612, the latest attempt to channel David Horowitz’s idiocy. To wit, the proposed 15-511(D)(3) Arizona Statutes would be created, prohibiting Arizona faculty from being able to … Endorse, support or oppose any pending or proposed litigation in a local, state or federal court or endorse, support […]
Why I am a history-education half-breed
By Sherman Dorn on March 3, 2007
The last of my Michael-Katz-student bloggish discussions, on my being a history-education half-breed and other matters of scholarly parochialism, is over at Education Policy Blog.
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