Presidential Search Should be More Open to Community
No matter what the search firm does--or does not do--it is the Regents who remain responsible for the selection of Eastern’s 12th president. The search and screening committee would greatly benefit...
View ArticleThe Kentucky Case: A Transition Point in the National Struggle for Equitable...
Using historical and legal resources, this study uses the Kentucky Case, Rose v Council for Better Education to illustrate the political commitment of professional educators in the development of a...
View ArticleBerea College-Coeducationally and Racially Integrated: An Unlikely...
In this paper we consider the anti-slavery ministry of Rev. John G. Fee and the unlikely establishment of Berea College in Kentucky in the 1850s; the first college in the southern United States to be...
View ArticleA Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy and the Lexington Schools, 1886-1928
The 42-year career of M. A. Cassidy exemplifies the transition of public school leadership in Kentucky from non-educators who held religious-political ideologies to professional progressive educators...
View ArticleFirst in Reform: The Adoption of Common Core State Standards in Kentucky
On February 11, 2010, in an unprecedented joint meeting, the chairs of the Kentucky Board of Education, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the Education Professional Standards Board signed a...
View ArticleOutsized profit expectations harm education news
It appears that former Herald-Leader and Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll was on to something when he predicted, in 2006, that outsized profit expectations in the newspaper industry would have a...
View ArticleA Persistent Quandary: The Rural School Improvement Project, 1953-1957
Berea College's Rural School Improvement Project worked directly with more than 5,000 children and 63 teaching fellows in 39 different schools over 13 counties, and one independent school district,...
View ArticleNot Without a Fight_Final Draft_14 June 2018.doc
Public schooling for the children of the Cumberland Plateau in Southeastern Kentucky had historically lagged far behind the rest of the Commonwealth. Despite being surrounded by rich resources, poverty...
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