American Educational History Journal Vol 39 Issue 1 & 2

Paul J. Ramsey, Eastern Michigan University, USA.

• Volume 39, Number 1.Editor's Introduction; Paul J. Ramsey.Articles.NCLB-The Educational Accountability Paradigm in Historical Perspective; Mark Groen.Using Microbiography to Understand the Occupational Careers of American Teachers, 1900–1950; Robert J. Gough.Flannery O'Conner and Progressive Education: Experiences and Impressions of an American Author; John A. Beineke.The Idea of Infancy and Nineteenth-Century American Education; Joseph Watras.The Great Depression and Elementary School Teachers as Reported in Grade Teacher Magazine; Sherry L. Field and Elizabeth Bellows.Called to Teach: Percy and Anna Pennybacker's Contributions to Education in Texas, 1880–1899; Kelley M. King.A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy and the Lexington Schools, 1886–1928; Richard E. Day and Lindsey N. DeVries.History's Purpose in Antebellum Textbooks; Edward Cromwell McInnis.Texas's Decision to Have Twelve Grades; Kathy Watlington.The Rise and Demise of the SAT: The University of California Generates Change for College Admissions; Susan J. Berger.Imagining Harvard: Changing Visions of Harvard in Fiction, 1890–1940; Christian K. Anderson and Daniel A. Clark.God and Man at Yale and Beyond: The Thoughts of William F. Buckley, Jr. on Higher Education, 1949–1955; James Green.Paul Ricoeur, Memory, and the Historical Gaze: Implications for Education Histories; Sherri Rae Colby.Indefinite Foundings and Awkward Transitions: The Grange's Troubled Formation into an Educational Institution; Glenn P. Lauzon.Book Reviews.Loss, C. P., Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century, and Urban, W. J., More Than Science and Sputnik: The National Defense Education Act of 1958. Reviewed by T. Gregory Barrett.Hendry, P., Engendering Curriculum History. Reviewed by Daniel M. Ryan.E. Mitchell, R. L. Crowson, and D. Shipps, eds., Shaping Education Policy: Power and Process. Reviewed by Sherri Rae Colby.Gasman, M., The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past. Reviewed by John A. Beineke.Volume 39, Number 2.Editor's Introduction; Paul J. Ramsey.Articles."Whosoever Will, Let Him Come": Evangelical Millennialism and the Development of American Public Education; John Wakefield."Good Fences Make Strange Neighbors": Released Time Programs and the McCollum v. Board of Education Decision of 1948; David P. Setran.Evolution and South Carolina Schools, 1859–2009; Benjamin J. Bindewald and Mindy Spearman.Reverend John Witherspoon's Pedagogy of Leadership; Christie L. Maloyed and J. Kelton Williams.Transatlantic Dialogue: Pestalozzian Influences on Women's Education in the Early Nineteenth Century America; Maria A. Laubach and Joan K. Smith.Is Liberal Arts Education for Women Liberating?: From Cold War Debate to Modern Gender Gaps; Andrea Walton.Coercion, If Coercion Be Necessary: The Educational Function of the New York House of Refuge, 1824–1874; Josie Madison.Shaping Freedom's Course: Charles Hamilton Houston, Howard University, and Legal Instruction on U.S. Civil Rights; Robert K. Poch.Theodore Sizer and the Development of the Mathematics and Science for Minority Students Program at Phillips Academy Andover; Jerrell K. Beckham.Disproportionate Burden: Consolidation and Educational Equity in the City Schools of Warren, Ohio, 1978–2011; Leah J. Daugherty Schmidt and Thomas G. Welsh.The Power of Boarding Schools: A Historiographical Review; Abigail Gundlach Graham.Challenge and Conflict to Educate: The Brazos Agency Indian School; Brandon Moore, Karon N. LeCompte, and Larry J. Kelly."Incommensurable Standards": Academics' Responses to Classical Arrangements of Native American Songs; Jacob Hardesty.A Century of Using Secondary Education to Extend an American Hegemony over Hawaii; Kalani Beyer.Book ReviewsTitus, J. O., Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregation, & the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County. Reviewed by Dionne Danns.Horsford, S. D., Learning in a Burning House: Educational Inequality, Ideology, and (Dis)integration. Reviewed by Melanie Adams.James, R., Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation. Reviewed by Robert K. Poch.Burkholder, Z., Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900–1954. Reviewed by Amy A. Hunter and Matthew D. Davis.Rury, J. L. and S. A. Hill, The African American Struggle for Secondary Schooling, 1940–1980: Closing the Graduation Gap. Reviewed by Claude Weathersby.Frankenberg E., and E. DeBay, eds., Integrating Schools in a Changing Society: New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation. Reviewed by Joseph Watras.