UPenn - American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice 

Course Overview

1.1) Course Introduction

1.2) U.S. Education - An Early Transformation

1.3) Literacy in the Colonial Period

1.4) Institutions of Colonial Education

1.5) Early Republic Proponents of Common Schools to Build a New Nation

1.6) Early Republic Schooling in the United States

1.7) Benjamin Franklin?s Academy

Further Learning

Colonial Period/Early Republic Quiz

2.1) Introduction

2.2) The National Market Economy

2.3) "What God Hath Wrought": Dramatic Social Innovations

2.4) Horace Mann: Avatar of Common Schools

2.5) The Common School Idea as a Social Movement

2.6) Protestants and Catholics in the Arena

2.7) Education of African Americans and Native Americans

2.8) Secondary Schooling in the Common School Era: The Academy

Further Learning

National Period Quiz

3.1) Introduction

3.2) Expansion of the Common School

3.3) After Emancipation: Education of African Americans in the Reconstruction South

3.4) Industrial Education in the South's Organic Society

3.5) Jim Crow and the Radical Segregation of African Americans

3.6) Boarding Schools for Native Americans

3.7) The Rise of the American High School

Further Learning

Postbellum Era Quiz

4.1) Introduction

4.2) Progressive Seedbeds of Education Reform

4.3) Rise of the Administrative Progressives in American School Reform

4.4) Psychological Testing Movement

4.5) Social Efficiency Schooling

4.6) The Committee of Ten

4.7) The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education

4.8) The Southern Education Movement

4.9) Rosenwald Schools and County Training Schools for African Americans

Further Learning

Progressive Era Quiz

5.1) The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago

5.2) Dewey?s Theory of Knowledge

5.3) Dewey?s Idea of the School as a Social Center

5.4) Dewey: Missing in Action

5.5) The Pedagogical Progressives

5.6) A Neo-Deweyan Critique of the Pedagogical Progressives

Further Learning

John Dewey Quiz

Episode 6.1: The Great Depression and a New Deal for America's Youth

Episode 6.2: High Schools in Hard Times

Episode 6.3: Social Reconstruction and the Schools

Episode 6.4: Antecedents to America's Community Schools: Social Centers and Community Centers

Episode 6.5: The Nambé Community School

Episode 6.6: Arthurdale

Episode 6.7: Leonard Covello's Community High School in East Harlem

Further Learning

Depression Era Quiz

Episode 7.1: Life Adjustment Education

Episode 7.2: The Cold War, McCarthyism, and the Public Schools

Episode 7.3: Waging the Cold War in Schools: Federal Support for Academic Rigor

Episode 7.4: "Radical Romanticists"

Episode 7.5: Education and the Civil Rights Movement: From Plessy to Brown

Episode 7.6: The Last Hurrah of Jim Crow Schools

Episode 7.7: Busing Goes North: The Limits of Racial Integration

Episode 7.8: Community Control and Teacher Unions

Episode 7.9: Title IX and the "Hidden Injuries of Coeducation"

Further Learning

Post-World War II Quiz

Episode 8.1: Introduction

Episode 8.2: The Expanded Federal Role in Education Reform: The Elementary & Secondary Education

Episode 8.3: Ramping Up Reform: The Rise of Standards and Accountability

Episode 8.4: No Child Left Behind: Still Leaving Children Behind?

Episode 8.5: Public School Choice: Charter Schools

Episode 8.6: School Choice Run Amok? Diverse Providers and Portfolio Management Models

Episode 8.7: Attacking the Ed School's Teacher Education Monopoly

Wrap episode

Further Learning

Post-1983 Quiz