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Direct linkJeynes, William H. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2004
In this article I address some assertions made by one of the most outstanding educational historians, Diane Ravitch, regarding the relation between immigration rates and academic achievement among children in the United States. In her book The Great School Wars Ravitch asserted that low immigration levels during the 1920s to early 1960s period…
Descriptors: Historians, Immigration, Academic Achievement, Immigrants
McMillen, Liz – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
The emerging profession of public history includes archivists, business historians, and those in historic preservation. Increasing numbers of colleges are offering curricula in the field. (MSE)
Descriptors: Archives, College Curriculum, Higher Education, Historians
Download full textWoodward, C. Vann – 1995
This occasional paper discusses and examines the role of history as a link between the past and the future. The paper advocates one of the tasks of historians is to keep the present in reasonable touch with the past and with the hope of helping the present to accept and understand the future when it comes. The report cites the declining enrollment…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Higher Education
