San Antonio College Library

From the Publisher: The Education of Black Folk chronicles the history of African-American education and the beginnings of affirmative action in American colleges and universities. Considered to be a classic by many, on can find no better introduction to this important topic.

"At long last, the complete history of Latino education in the United States has been gathered together into one groundbreaking volume. Victoria-Maria MacDonald's engaging narrative guides the reader through an invaluable collection of primary documents and literature. Important for students and scholars alike," Latino Education in the United States provides a comprehensive examination of Latino culture, history, and education, and transcends regional...

This volume provides a blueprint for education in the 21st century by demonstrating how lifelong learning ideas and practice are beginning to influence ways of life and thinking in today's changing societies. Case studies from all over the world describe the revolution that is taking place in universities, adult education, business education and the more dynamic schools and a narrative puts it all together into a charter for a lifelong learning future...

This comprehensive volume examines the facts, characters, and events that shaped this field in Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. From the first efforts to teach disabled people in early Christian and Medieval eras to such current mandates as Public Law 94-142, this study breaks new ground in assessing the development of special education as a formal discipline. "The History of Special Education" presents a four-part narrative that traces...

A definitive biography of Montessori--physician, feminist, social reformer, and educator. This is the story behind the woman who developed a new way of educating the young, effecting a worldwide revolution in the classroom.

"Contentious debates over the benefits-or drawbacks-of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism-often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student's capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this...

"This witty and provocative study of sex and marriage manuals reveals the patterns of permissiveness and prohibition, and, tellingly, the mechanisms of suasion and enforcement - from sermons and hellfire to mutilation and electroshock - that have informed popular sex education over the past hundred and twenty years." "From the roaring '20s to the 1960s sexual revolution and after, Teaching America about Sex reveals that, even as sexual behavior changed...