An Education for Free Men: A Reflection on Chapter 3 of The Teacher Wars
Chapter 3: “No Shirking, No Sulking”: Black Teachers and Racial Uplift After the Civil War Over the next ten weeks, I will be walking through Dana Goldstein’s book The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession chapter-by-chapter. My hope is that this level of engagement with her work will help me better ingrain the history…
A Tale of Two Movements: A Reflection on Chapter 2 of “The Teacher Wars”
Goldstein teases out the fascinating ways how the fight for equality within the teaching profession mirrored and differed from the Women’s Rights movement.
A Gentler Church: “The Teacher Wars” Reflection – Chapter 1
Over the next ten weeks, I will be walking through Dana Goldstein’s book The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession chapter-by-chapter. My hope is that this level of engagement with her work will better help me ingrain the history and key themes of American education and perhaps be helpful to you as…