Inequity in Education

Debra Meyers is director of integrative studies and associate professor of history at Northern Kentucky University. Burke Miller is assistant professor of history and content coordinator for secondary social studies at Northern Kentucky University.

Inequity in Education, without question, adds much to our understanding of the American educational history from the colonial period to the 1990s. This carefully crafted and meticulously researched volume is a very impressive book and a must read by anyone who is sincerely interested in a unique analysis of the quest of various segments of the American population to obtain a quality education. All parties involved in this venture, especially editors Meyers and Miller, should be greatly commended for such a powerful piece.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter 1. The Unequal Status of Children in American Educational History: Historiographical Reflections and Theoretical PossibilitiesChapter 3 Chapter 2. The Cornerstone of the Republic: George Washington and the National UniversityChapter 4 Chapter 3. No Acknowledged Standard: The Female Seminary Curriculum of the Early Nineteenth CenturyChapter 5 Chapter 4. The Training an Orphan Requires: Education in Nineteenth-Century New York City Orphan AsylumsChapter 6 Chapter 5. The Idea of Integration in the Age of Horace MannChapter 7 Chapter 6. The Race Problem and American Education in the Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 8 Chapter 7. Vocational Education, Work Culture, and the Children of European Immigrants during the 1930sChapter 9 Chapter 8. The "Separate but Equal" Schools of Monongalia County, West Virginia's Coal Mining CommunitiesChapter 10 Chapter 9. Christian Day Schools and the Transformation of Conservative Evangelical Protestant Educational Activism, 1962–1990Chapter 11 Chapter 10. The Austin T. E. A. Party: Homeschooling Controversy in Texas, 1986–1994Chapter 12 Chapter 11. Changing Visions for Jesuit High Schools in America: The Case of Campion Jesuit High School, 1965–1975Chapter 13 Chapter 12. The National Education Association: Champion of Equality in Education or Roadblock to Change?