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 historyContinue reading “An Education for Free Men: A Reflection on Chapter 3 of The Teacher Wars”
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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 asContinue reading “A Gentler Church: “The Teacher Wars” Reflection – Chapter 1″
The Red Book 