Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow: 58 (History of Schools and Schooling) - Softcover

Pierson, Sharon Gay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143312307X ISBN 13: 9781433123078

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2013

Synopsis

During the progressive education movement, laboratory high schools evolved from model schools that were part of the core teacher training curriculum at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). These laboratory schools were at the vanguard of the accreditation battle, participated in national curriculum studies, and boasted high graduation and college entrance rates. Led by well-educated, reform-minded African Americans who molded their own approaches to teaching and curriculum and were grounded in sound progressive educational theory, these HBCU lab high schools represented privileged educational experiences. Yet, this collective effort of high-achieving Black lab schools has been overlooked by historians. Through an examination of Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School (1920-1960), 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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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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143312307X
• ISBN 13: 9781433123078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328