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Frederick, Rona M.; View, Jenice L. – Urban Education, 2009
Over 50 years after the monumental decision of "Brown v. Board of Education," many U.S. schools remain separate and unequal. This includes schools in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. The article discusses how in the two centuries of public education in Washington, D.C., Black educators used a variety of subversive tactics to…
Descriptors: Educational History, Urban Schools, African American Education, African American Teachers
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Bair, Sarah D. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2008
Using social education as a theoretical framework, this article examines the educational theories of Nannie Helen Burroughs (1883-1961), founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1909, and discusses the social studies curriculum at her school. Burroughs's papers reveal her efforts to build a curriculum that blended practical,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Studies, African American Education, African American Teachers