Donna M. Davis, University of Missouri-Kansas City.Shirley Marie McCarther, University of Missouri-Kansas City.Susan Studer, California Baptist University.Mindy Spearman, Clemson University.Nicole Dorsey, Jordan Fash, and Vam Nu, University of Missouri–Kansas City.

• Volume 44, Number 1, 2017.Editor's Introduction; Donna M. Davis.Articles.1. Education for Agricultural Improvement: Teacher Certification at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; Lynn Burlbaw, Lauren Wil-liams, and Larry J. Kelly.2. Ravitch Reversed: Ideology and the History of American Education Reform; John Laukaitis.3. A Century Apart: An Evaluation of Historical Comparisons Between Elizabeth Jennings and Rosa Parks in Narratives of the Black Freedom Movement; Katherine Perrotta.4. Changing Names, Merging Colleges: Investigating the History of Higher Education Adaptation; R. Eric Platt, Steven R. Chesnut, Melandie McGee, and Xiaonan Song.5. Contextualizing African American Collegians' Experiences of Racial Desegregation in Midwestern Private Colleges, 1945-1965; Dafina-Lazarus Stewart.6. For the Best Interests of the Community: Riverside's 14th Street School Debate; Mark Groen.Reviews.Fareed Zakaria. 2015. In Defense of a Liberal Education; Theodore G. Zervas.Makdisi, George. 1981. The Rise of Colleges: Institutions of Learning in Islam and the West; Robert K. Poch.Zimmerman, Jonathan. 2016. Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know; Elizabeth Cobbinsh.Volume 44, Number 2, 2017.Editor's Introduction; Donna M. Davis.Articles.1. The White Architects of Hawaiian Education; Carl Beyer.2. What Preservice Teachers Can Learn from One Jim Crow Community Engagement Program; Vanessa Garry.3. Resurrection of Lower Valley School; Kimberly Currens.4. Althea Stoeckel and Experiments with a History Laboratory in Higher Education; Kristen Hengtgen.5. Symbolic Considerations: A Critical Decision in the History of the National Council for the Social Studies; Paul E. Binford.6. The History of the Austin College Building and Old Main at Sam Houston State University; Erin Singer and Samantha Shields.7. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Twenty-Plus Years Later: How an Arts Approach to Teaching and Learning Can Keep the Dream Alive; Shirley Marie McCarther and Donna M. Davis.Reviews.Robinson, Ken, & Lou Aronica. 2015. Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education; Theodore G. Zervas.Hyde, Sarah, L. 2016. Schooling in the Antebellum South: The Rise of Public and Private Education in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama; R. Eric Platt.Span, Christopher M. 2009. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi; Brannon S. Johnson.