Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow
Laboratory of Learning illuminates the strategies, challenges, and successes of providing secondary education to Southern Black citizens during the Jim Crow era and provides evidence that HBCU laboratory schools and Lab High should be added to our histories as an example of distinctive, progressive schooling.
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Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow
Laboratory of Learning illuminates the strategies, challenges, and successes of providing secondary education to Southern Black citizens during the Jim Crow era and provides evidence that HBCU laboratory schools and Lab High should be added to our histories as an example of distinctive, progressive schooling.
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Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow

Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow

by Sharon Gay Pierson
Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow

Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow

by Sharon Gay Pierson

Overview

Laboratory of Learning illuminates the strategies, challenges, and successes of providing secondary education to Southern Black citizens during the Jim Crow era and provides evidence that HBCU laboratory schools and Lab High should be added to our histories as an example of distinctive, progressive schooling.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433123085
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 11/08/2013
Series: History of Schools and Schooling , #58
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sharon Gay Pierson (PhD in history and education, Teachers College, Columbia University) has had her work published in numerous historical journals. She most recently contributed to the revised edition of «Schools of Tomorrow», Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education (Susan F. Semel and Alan R. Sadovnik, eds., Peter Lang, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Contents: Beginnings: The Promise of Secondary and Higher Education – Intersections, Opportunities, and Strategies for Advancement, 1920–1940s: Black Laboratory Schools and Progressive Education – Seeds of Inspiration and Effective Administration – History and Development of Alabama State College Laboratory High School, the «Heart» of the Institution – «Lab High»: Privilege and Promise in Secondary Education.
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