“The Business of Education: Home Study at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin in the 1920s and 1930s” forthcoming in Teachers College Record |
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“Lost at the Last Minute” (with Jeff Menzer) in Phi Delta Kappan (March, 2009). |
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“The National Home Study Council, 1926-1942” in The American Journal of Distance Education (January, 2009). |
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“ Comprehensive High Schools” and “Education Reform in the Depression” in Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent (Sage, 2009). |
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“In Search of New Frontiers: How Scholars Generate Ideas” Commentary page, Chronicle of Higher Education (December 19, 2008). |
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“Testing Medical Students at Harvard, 1870-1930” in History of Education and Children’s Literature (Spring, 2008). |
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“Back to the Future” (with Joseph Jones) Commentary page, Education Week, April 2, 2008. |
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“Two Perspectives on Tenure” (with Eugene Matusov) in Academe, Jan/Feb. 2008 |
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“Rural and One Room Schools,” “The History of Medical Education,” and “Correspondence Schools” in The Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (Sage, 2008). |
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“The Academic Work Ethic in Yale College,
1939-1982” in Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
(2006) |
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“Rural and One Room Schools” and “The History of Medical Education” forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (Sage, 2006). |
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“Doctoring Schools” Commentary page, Education
Week, October 19, 2005 |
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“Temperance” in Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (Scribners, 2005) |
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“Progressive Education” in Peter Stearns, ed., History of Childhood (Macmillan, 2003). |
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“The 15 Gallon Law” and “ Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance” in Jack Blocker, Ed., Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History (ABC-CLIO, 2003). |
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“Historical Perspectives on Small Schools” in Phi
Delta Kappan (January 2002). |
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“Books by Journalists on American Education” in History
of Education Quarterly (Spring 2001). |
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“The Origins of the Educational Testing Service” in Michael Johanek, ed., A Faithful Mirror: Reflections on the College Board and Education in America (The College Entrance Examination Board: New York, 2001). |
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| "The Power and Peril of Idea-Driven Reform" Commentary page, Education Week, April 21, 1999. |
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| "A Generation in Crisis?" in Daedalus (Fall 1998). |
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| "In Defense of the Lecture" in Independent School (Winter, 1998). |
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| "The Puzzle of Whole School Change" (with Patricia Wasley and Richard Clark) in Phi Delta Kappan (May, 1997). |
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| "Notes on Tinkering Toward Utopia" in History of Education Quarterly (Winter, 1996). |
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| "In Search of Allies" in International Journal of Educational Reform (October, 1996). |
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| "A Challenge to the Culture" (with Ed Taylor) in International Journal of Educational Reform (October, 1996). |
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| "The Micropolitics of RE:Learning" in Journal of School Leadership (November, 1995). |
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| "Repositioning the Position Papers" (with Paula Kleine-Kracht) in Innovative Higher Education (September 1995). |
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| "Overextended" in Educational Researcher (April, 1995). |
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| "Breadth vs. Depth" Commentary page, Education Week, February 8, 1995. |
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| "Apart-nerships" in Record in Educational Administration and Supervision, Spring/Summer 1993. |
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| "Historical Perspectives on Academic Work" in Motivating
Students to Learn (McCutchan, 1993). This book was in a series, Contemporary Educational Issues, from the National Society for the Study of Education. |
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| "Secondary Education" in Encyclopedia of Educational
Research 6th edition (Macmillan, 1992). |
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| "How Special is the Specialty Shop?" (with Margaret Dee) in Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Summer 1990. |
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| "Social Services in American High Schools" (with
Eleanor Farrar) in Weis, ed., Dropouts from School (SUNY, 1989). |
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| "The Political Side of Reform" featured article in N.A.S.S.P. Bulletin, December 1986. |
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| "Inside the Citadel in 1940" in Phi Delta Kappan, June 1986. |
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| "Hurried/Harried/History" in Independent School, Spring 1986. |
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| "Partial Transformations, Persistent Traditions" Commentary page, Education Week, March 19, 1986. |
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| "Too Much is Too Little" in Social Education, May 1985. |
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| "America's Golden Age of Education" featured article in N.A.S.S.P. Bulletin, October 1984. |
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| "The Less Things Change" in Independent School, May 1984. |
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| "The American High School Today: James Bryant Conant's Reservations and Reconsiderations" lead article in Phi Delta Kappan, May 1983. |
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| "Crime and Punishment on the Civil War Homefront" (with Charles W. Ormsby) in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, April 1982. |
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| "Diversity in Early Temperance Reform" in Journal of Studies on Alcohol, April, 1982. |
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| "The Contexts of Antebellum Reform" review essay in American Quarterly, Spring 1981. |
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