Course: American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice
Modules:
Course Overview, 1.1) Course Introduction, 1.2) U.S. Education - An Early Transformation, 1.3) Literacy in the Colonial Period, 1.4) Institutions of Colonial Education, 1.5) Early Republic Proponents of Common Schools to Build a New Nation, 1.6) Early Republic Schooling in the United States, 1.7) Benjamin Franklin’s Academy
2.1) Introduction, 2.2) The National Market Economy, 2.3) "What God Hath Wrought": Dramatic Social Innovations, 2.4) Horace Mann: Avatar of Common Schools, 2.5) The Common School Idea as a Social Movement, 2.6) Protestants and Catholics in the Arena, 2.7) Education of African Americans and Native Americans, 2.8) Secondary Schooling in the Common School Era: The Academy
3.1) Introduction, 3.2) Expansion of the Common School, 3.3) After Emancipation: Education of African Americans in the Reconstruction South, 3.4) Industrial Education in the South's Organic Society, 3.5) Jim Crow and the Radical Segregation of African Americans, 3.6) Boarding Schools for Native Americans, 3.7) The Rise of the American High School
4.1)  Introduction, 4.2)  Progressive Seedbeds of Education Reform, 4.3)  Rise of the Administrative Progressives in American School Reform, 4.4)  Psychological Testing Movement, 4.5)  Social Efficiency Schooling, 4.6)  The Committee of Ten, 4.7)  The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education, 4.8)  The Southern Education Movement, 4.9)  Rosenwald Schools and County Training Schools for African Americans
5.1) The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago, 5.2) Dewey’s Theory of Knowledge, 5.3) Dewey’s Idea of the School as a Social Center, 5.4) Dewey: Missing in Action, 5.5) The Pedagogical Progressives, 5.6) A Neo-Deweyan Critique of  the Pedagogical Progressives
Episode 6.1:  The Great Depression and a New Deal for America's Youth, Episode 6.2:  High Schools in Hard Times, Episode 6.3:  Social Reconstruction and the Schools, Episode 6.4:  Antecedents to America's Community Schools: Social Centers and Community Centers, Episode 6.5:  The Nambé Community School, Episode 6.6:  Arthurdale, Episode 6.7:  Leonard Covello's Community High School in East Harlem
Episode 7.1:  Life Adjustment Education, Episode 7.2:  The Cold War, McCarthyism, and the Public Schools, Episode 7.3:  Waging the Cold War in Schools: Federal Support for Academic Rigor, Episode 7.4:  "Radical Romanticists", Episode 7.5:  Education and the Civil Rights Movement: From Plessy to Brown, Episode 7.6:  The Last Hurrah of Jim Crow Schools, Episode 7.7:  Busing Goes North: The Limits of Racial Integration, Episode 7.8:  Community Control and Teacher Unions, Episode 7.9:  Title IX and the "Hidden Injuries of Coeducation"
Episode 8.1: Introduction, Episode 8.2: The Expanded Federal Role in Education Reform: The Elementary & Secondary Education, Episode 8.3: Ramping Up Reform: The Rise of Standards and Accountability, Episode 8.4: No Child Left Behind: Still Leaving Children Behind?, Episode 8.5: Public School Choice: Charter Schools, Episode 8.6: School Choice Run Amok? Diverse Providers and Portfolio Management Models, Episode 8.7: Attacking the Ed School's Teacher Education Monopoly, Wrap episode