History

of

Education

Society

 

 

 

 

 

Annual Meeting

 

 

 

 

 

Marriott Downtown Hotel

Kansas City, Missouri

 

November 4-7, 2004

 

 

 

Officers

 

President:  Linda Eisenmann (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Vice President:  David Labaree (Stanford University)

Secretary-Treasurer:  Robert Hampel (University of Delaware)

 

Program Committee

 

Jackie Blount (Iowa State University)

Jim Carl (Cleveland State University)

Sherman Dorn (University of South Florida)

Michael Dunson (Stanford University)

Barry Franklin (Utah State University)

Marybeth Gasman (University of Pennsylvania)

Julia Grant (Michigan State University)

Karen Graves (Denison University)

Philo Hutcheson (Georgia State University)

Victoria Maria MacDonald (Florida State University)

Jeff Mirel (University of Michigan)

Daniel Perlstein (University of California, Berkeley)

Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University)

Lori Rhodes (Stanford University)

Bethany Rogers (New York University)

John Rudolph (University of Wisconsin)

John Rury (University of Kansas)

Aki Sakuma (Gakugei University)

Joseph Watras (University of Dayton)

Harold Wechsler (University of Rochester)

Amy Wells (University of Mississippi)

Joy Williamson (Stanford University)

Roberta Wollons (Indiana University Northwest)

 

Local Events Coordinator

 

Charles Bishop, Jr. (Johnson County Community College)

 

Special Thanks to:

Lester Goodchild, dean, Graduate College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston,

            for support of the Presidential Reception

Deborah Stipek, dean, School of Education, Stanford University, for support of the Lunch with

            the Presidents

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2004

 

JAY MCSHANN A

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

History of Education Society Board Meeting

 

LOUNGE (3rd floor)

4:30-6:00 p.m.

Registration, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

 

BASIE BALLROOM (2nd floor)

5:30-7:00 p.m.

AESA Kneller Lecture:  Charles Mills (University of Illinois, Chicago)

 

FOYER, BASIE BALLROOM (2nd floor)

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Joint AESA/HES Reception

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2004

 

LOUNGE (3rd floor)

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Registration

 

BIG JOE TURNER B

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

HES Book Exhibit

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

LESTER YOUNG A

Cracking Hard Times:  The New Deal and Schooling Programs in Working Class

     Communities, 1928-1959

Chair: Sevan Terzian (University of Florida)

A New Deal for Indian Education

            Jon Reyhner (Northern Arizona University)

 Modernism in an Appalachian School

Jean Hamm (East Tennessee State University)

WPA Nursery Schools: Improving Health of Low Income Children

Lynn Matthew Burlbaw (Texas A&M University)

The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Librarian Project,

1935-1943

Donald C. Boyd (University of Florida)

Discussant: Sevan Terzian (University of Florida)

 

LESTER YOUNG B

Insights from the Outside: Overcoming an Isolated Historiography

Chair: John Rury (University of Kansas)

Educational Historians as "Marginal Creature": A Self-Imposed Myth?

Joshua Garrison (Indiana University)

Learning and the Market in Nineteenth-Century Northern Countryside

Glenn Lauzon (Indiana University)

Wresting with Modernity: Philanthropy, Social Welfare, Education, and the Children's Aid

     Society in Progressive-Era New York

Paul Ramsey (Indiana University)

Discussant: John Rury (University of Kansas)

 

JAY MCSHANN A

Before and After Brown: The Long Struggle for Equal Protection, Equal Opportunity, and

     Simple Justice in Public Education

Chair: Donna Davis (University of Missouri, Kansas City) 

Long Before Brown: Clark v. City of Muscatine [Iowa], 1868

Hal Chase (Des Moines Area Community College)

The Lemon Grove Case and School Segregation in the Southwest

Alicia Rivera (California State University, Fresno)

A History of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission's Case for School Desegregation in

     Philadelphia, 1971-1986

Anne E. Phillips (Rowan University)

Discussant: Donna Davis (University of Missouri, Kansas City)

 

JAY MCSHANN B

Issues in Teaching and Curriculum: Three Case Studies

Chair: Jonathan Zimmerman (New York University) 

A Careful Balance between "the Child and the Curriculum": Elementary School History

     Instruction According to the American Historical Association, 1890-1930

Anne-Lise Halvorsen (University of Michigan)

A Study of the National "History Wars" and World History Standards in Michigan and Virginia,

     1994-2004: A Decade of Change?

Lauren McArthur (University of Michigan)

Esther Douglass: the American Missionary Association, Acculturation, and Agency

Tamara Shreiner (University of Michigan) 

Discussant: Jonathan Zimmerman (New York University)

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

 

LESTER YOUNG A

Outside Influences, Unintended Consequences: Communication in Education Reform

Chair: Marybeth Gasman (University of Pennsylvania)

Those Agents of Americanization: The Influence of Common School Reform on Boston's

     Desegregation Debate, 1844-1855

Hilary J. Moss (Brandeis University)

The "Problem of the Gifted Student": NRC Efforts to Identify Undergraduate Talent in a New

     Era of Mass Education, 1919-1929

Jane Robbins (University of Pennsylvania)

Who's an Insider/Who's an Outside? The Ford Foundation as Intermediary in New York City

     Education Governance Reform, 1966-1972

Heather Lewis (New York University)

Shared Accountability in School Reform: Marcus Foster and the Oakland Public Schools,

     1970-1973

John Spencer (Rowan University) 

Discussant: Marybeth Gasman (University of Pennsylvania)

 

LESTER YOUNG B

Understanding an Institutional Sector: New Historiography on Postwar Public Urban

     Universities

Chair: Linda Eisenmann (University of Massachusetts, Boston) 

On Opposite Sides of the Tracks: The Urban University in Black and White in New Orleans

Amy E. Wells (University of Mississippi)

Valera Francis (University of New Orleans)

Higher Education in the 1960s: The Origin of the University of Massachusetts Boston

Diane D'Arrigo (Lesley University)

CCNY or UCLA? Institutional Aspirations at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle,

     1958-1982

Fred Beuttler (University of Illinois at Chicago)

The Emergence and Evolution of an Urban State University: The Case of Wayne State University

Ralph Kidder (Newbury College) 

Discussant: Bruce Leslie (SUNY Brockport)

 

JAY MCSHANN A

New Perspectives on the Politics of Education

Chair: Wayne Urban (Georgia State University) 

The Campaign to Abolish Parochial Education in Michigan, 1920 and 1924

Paul Perrault (University of Michigan)

The American Federation of Teachers and Academic Freedom in the 1930s

Timothy Reese Cain (University of Michigan)

Education and the Rise of the Reagan Democrats

Heidi Mattiyow (University of Michigan)

Politics of Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Goals 2000

Benjamin Superfine (University of Michigan) 

Discussant: Wayne Urban (Georgia State University)

 

JAY MCSHANN B

African Americans in the South and the Use of Libraries for Schooling in the 20th Century

Chair: John Rury (University of Kansas) 

Black Chicago Community and School Librarians, 1930-1962

Anne Meis Knupfer (Purdue University)

Black Colleges and Public Libraries in Segregated Atlanta: The University Homes Reading

     Room, 1941-1962

Melanie Carter (Clark Atlanta University)

Ethel Thompson and Library Building in Richmond, Virginia, 1933-1958

Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University)

The Julius Rosenwald Fund and Tennessee School Libraries, 1928-1948

Erin Meyer-Blasing (University of Wisconsin)

Discussant: John Rury (University of Kansas)

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004

SPECIAL SESSIONS, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

 

JAY MCSHANN A

Technology for the Future of the History of Education Society: A Conversation with the

     HES Technology Committee

Chair: Keith Whitescarver (The College of William and Mary)

Panelists:

Jack Dougherty (Trinity College)

Scott Walter (University of Kansas)

 

HARVEST ROOM

Lunch with the Presidents (for graduate students only; advance sign-up and tickets required)

Former Presidents of the History of Education Society who will be taking part:

James Anderson (University of Illinois)

Ron Butchart (University of Georgia)

Linda Eisenmann (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Barbara Finkelstein (University of Maryland)

Carl Kaestle (Brown University)

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 1:45-3:15 p.m.

 

LESTER YOUNG A

Issues of Gender in American Higher Education

Chair: Katherine Chaddock (University of South Carolina)  

Higher Aspirations: Preparing Catholic Women for College in Early-Twentieth Century Chicago

Ann Marie Ryan (Loyola University Chicago)

Celebrating College Manhood for a New Age:  How American Mass Magazines Re-Crafted and

     Popularized a Masculine Image of College, 1893-1915

Daniel A. Clark (Indiana State University)

"What Gender Is Lex?"  Women, Men, and Power Relations in Colleges of the Nineteenth

     Century

Michael  Cohen (Harvard University) 

Discussant: Katherine Chaddock (University of South Carolina)

 

LESTER YOUNG B

Gender Issues for Teachers in the U.S.

Chair:  Jackie Blount (Iowa State University)

 "A Comfortable Living": North Carolina Music Teachers in the Education Marketplace,

     1800-1840

Kim Tolley (Notre Dame de Namur University)

‘"An Honor to Be a Teacher": The Maternal Model of Instruction in the U.S. Common School

     Movement and Popular Women Writers of the 1850s

Amy E. Cummins (Fort Hays State University)

Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity in the Teachers’ Unions: A Gendered Analysis of

     the UFT, 1961-1964

Diana C. D’Amico (New York University) 

Discussant: Jackie Blount (Iowa State University)

 

JAY MCSHANN A

Race, Real Estate, and Religion in the Transformation of Suburban Schools

Chair: Jack Dougherty (Trinity College) 

The Transformation of the Suburban Schools: Metropolitan Hartford in the Twentieth Century

Jack Dougherty (Trinity College)

Public Schools and Private Real Estate Markets, 1940-2000

Kelli Perkins (Trinity College)

Catholic Schools, Racial Change, and Suburbanization, 1930-2000

Carmen Green (Trinity College)

Historical Memory and the Transformation of City and Suburban Schools

Jacqueline Katz (Trinity College) 

Discussant: John Rury (University of Kansas)

 

JAY MCSHANN B

When Outsiders Run the Schools: External Control and the Fate of School Reform in

     Historical Perspective

Chair: David Labaree (Stanford University) 

The Earliest Intervention by Outsiders? The South, the Schools for the Freed People, and the

     History of Educational Intervention

Ronald E. Butchart (University of Georgia)

"A Stir-Up Maverick Approach": Outsiders, Insiders, and the National Teacher Corps

Bethany L. Rogers (New York University)

"Stepping into a Lion's Den": California's Takeover of Compton Unified School District

Emily E. Straus (Brandeis University) 

Discussant: Jeffrey P. Moran (University of Kansas)

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

 

LESTER YOUNG A

Visions of Education

Chair: Cally Waite (Teachers College) 

Constructions of Americanism, Patriotism and Dissent: Quaker Independent Schools during the

     Second World War

Diana C. D’Amico (New York University)

Americanizing Montessori: Historical Perspectives on the Montessori Method in the United

     States

Keith Whitescarver (The College of William and Mary)

Jacqueline Cossentino (University of Maryland)

"To Pilot without Rowing": Julia Anne King and the History of Teaching History, 1869-1915

Laura Docter Thornburg (Michigan State University)

Discussant: Cally Waite (Teachers College)

 

LESTER YOUNG B

Post Brown:  Consequences for Black Schools and White Schools

Chair: Joseph Newman (University of South Alabama)

Laurinburg Normal and Industrial Institute: Southern Ties, Sports and Culture after Brown

Patricia Haggler (New York University)

A House Divided: The Other Side of Brown, A Case Study of Bonner Springs, KS

Adah Ward Randolph (Ohio University)

Lewis A. Randolph (Ohio University) 

Discussant: Joseph Newman (University of South Alabama)

 

JAY MCSHANN A

Sex Education and the American Curriculum

Chair: Karen Graves (Denison University) 

Sex, Drugs, and Right ‘N’ Wrong: Or, The Passion of Joycelyn Elders, M.D.

Jonathan Zimmerman (New York University)

Reforming the Schoolchild’s Body in Antebellum America:  The Role of Hygiene Textbooks

Rebecca R. Noel (Plymouth State University)

Sex Ed ... and the Reds?  Reconsidering the Anaheim Battle over Sex Education, 1962-1969

Natalia Mehlman (Stanford University) 

Discussant: Karen Graves (Denison University)

 

JAY MCSHANN B

Race, Gender, and Teaching in the U.S.

Chair: Kate Rousmaniere (Miami University) 

Wages Before Brown: Racial and Gender Discrimination in Teachers' Salaries,, 1900-1954

Jo Anne Preston (Brandeis University)

Education and Racial Uplift: A Teacher’s Perspective

Michael Dunson (Stanford University) 

Discussant: Kate Rousmaniere (Miami University)

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2004

Evening

 

BASIE BALLROOM (2nd floor)

5:30-7:00 p.m.

Butts Lecture:  Manning Marable (Columbia University)

 

FOYER, BASIE BALLROOM (2nd floor)

7:00-8:30 p.m.

Joint AESA/HES Reception

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2004

 

LOUNGE (3rd floor)

8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Registration

 

BIG JOE TURNER B

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

HES Book Exhibit

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2004

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

LESTER YOUNG A

Educating the Other

Chair: Roberta Wollons (Indiana University Northwest) 

Leading them to the Truth: The Educational Mission of the Syrian Protestant College,

     1866-1920

Kersten  Biehn (Rice University)

An Interesting "What If": John Eldred Swearingen and Patterns of Funding of African-American

     Schools in South Carolina

Edward Janak (University of Wyoming)

The Creation of the First State-Supported Colored School in Marysville, California:

     A Community’s Legacy

Jana Noel (California State University, Sacramento) 

Discussant: Roberta Wollons (Indiana University Northwest)

 

LESTER YOUNG B

Book Session: "Justice, Justice: Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism" by Daniel Perlstein

Chair: Jonathan Zimmerman (New York University)

Panelists:

Susan Semel (City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center)

Linda Perkins (Clarement Graduate University)

William Watkins (University of Illinois Chicago)

Alan R. Sadovnik (Rutgers University)

Daniel Perlstein (University of California, Berkeley)

 

JAY MCSHANN A

Issues in the Development of the American University

Chair: David Labaree (Stanford University) 

The Stabilized Historiography of the Rise of the American University

Katherine Sedgwick (University of Pennsylvania)

From Evolutionary Thought to Educational Reform: The Mid-Nineteenth Century Rivalry

     between Louis Agassiz and William Barton Rogers

A. J. Angulo (Winthrop University)

The AAUP’s First Investigation: The University of Utah Academic Freedom Controversy of 1915

Christian K. Anderson (Penn State University)

Discussant: David Labaree (Stanford University) 

 

JAY MCSHANN B

Tolerance and Intolerance, Assimilation and Discrimination: Studies in the Social Politics

     of Education

Chair: Benjamin Justice (Rutgers University) 

"A Propagandist of Extermination:" Johann von Leers and the Anti-Semitic Formation of

     Children in Nazi Germany

Gregory P. Wegner (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

The Trouble with Tolerance:  New York City Teachers and Intercultural Education

Zoë Burkholder (New York University)

Americanization: The Assimilation Bridge

Annis N. Shaver (University of Miami) 

Discussant: Benjamin Justice (Rutgers University)

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2004

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

 

LESTER YOUNG A

Studies in Nontraditional Teaching and Learning

Chair: James Carl (Cleveland State University) 

“Not an End in Itself:” Starting Up Debate at Kansas High Schools

Claudia Keenan (Emory & Henry College)

Service-Learning in the United States, 1969-2004

Thomas A. Kessinger (Xavier University)

American School of the Air: Re-Discovering Radio’s Educational History

William Bianchi (Northern Illinois University) 

Discussant: James Carl (Cleveland State University)

 

LESTER YOUNG B

Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education From the Inside: The Participants

Chair: Blythe Hinitz (The College of New Jersey)

Panelists:

Vivian Scales (Original Plaintiff in Brown vs. Board)

Linda Brown (Original Child Plaintiff; Brown Foundation)

Cheryl Brown Henderson (Executive Director, Brown Foundation for Educational

            Equity, Excellence and Research)

Johnnie Saunders (Kindergarten Teacher, Charles Scott School)

Connie Menninger (Former Member of the Topeka School Board)

John M. Heffron (Soka University)

Judith Lynne McConnell (Washburn University)

 

JAY MCSHANN A

Studies of Progressive Education

Chair: William Wraga (University of Georgia) 

"A Child World and a Club House for Adults": School Architecture and the Work-Study-Play

     System in Gary, Indiana, 1907-1930

Dale Allen Gyure (Lawrence Technological University)

The Education of the Institution Boy: The Voorhis Vision of Progressive Education

Jared R. Stallones (California State Polytechnic University)

Education for Public Work Citizenship in a Depression Era High School: East Harlem’s

     Benjamin Franklin High School and Its Meaning