SPECIAL RESEARCH SESSION: Graduate students are invited to apply to participate in a 3-day research session, culminating with a panel presentation of their findings at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting in Chicago, November 3-6, 2011: http://www.historyofeducation.org/annual_meeting.html
What are the goals of this research session?
The goals of this research project are fivefold:
· Research a significant and ongoing phenomenon in the field of education history
· Learn about the archives of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
· Present original research at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting
· Collaborate with other historians of education, make new friends and have fun!
The Chicago Public Schools has undergone multiple waves of reform in the twentieth and twenty-first century. The most radical of these took place in 1988 with the Chicago School Reform Act. While a highly documented reform effort, this landmark experiment warrants more attention given its complexity and significant legacy. Questions remain for historians of education to investigate: Who were the local, state and national players pushing for community involvement? What were the roots of the 1988 establishment of the Local School Councils (LSCs) embedded in the reform legislation? How did a centralized system roll out a decentralized plan of governance? How did CPS address the “training” of LSC members? What was deemed essential for them to know in order to fulfill their responsibilities? Who did the training and why? How did “charting reform” affect the work of reform in Chicago Public Schools? The CPS archives contain an array of documents and reports on the years before, during and after related to this legislation. There is also a full set of the Chicago Board of Education Proceedings.
For background reading on the focus of this project, see the following:
Jeffrey Mirel, “School Reform Chicago Style, Educational Innovation in a Changing Urban Context, 1976-
1991,” Urban Education, 28, no. 2 (1993): 116-149.
Dorothy Shipps, “Pulling Together: Civic Capacity and Urban School Reform,” American Educational
Research Journal, 40, no. 4 (2003): 841-878.
J. Q. Easton & S. L. Storey, “The development of local school councils. Education and Urban Society, 26,
no. 3 (1994), 220-237.
What is involved?
Participants will receive electronic links and text this fall. On the mornings of November 3rd and 4th, we will meet at the CPS archives to break into teams and conduct archival research. On Sunday morning, November 6, we will present our research findings in a panel session at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting.
How do I apply?
Interested graduate students should email the Research Session sponsors no later than October 1, 2011. Please include a resume and explain, briefly, your interest in the project.
Ben Justice Ann Marie Ryan Dionne Danns
Rutgers University Loyola University Chicago Indiana University
Graduate School of Education School of Education School of Education
bjust@rci.rutgers.edu aryan3@luc.edu ddanns@indiana.edu
(732) 932-7495 ext. 8110 (312) 915-6232 (812) 856-8398
What are the goals of this research session?
The goals of this research project are fivefold:
· Research a significant and ongoing phenomenon in the field of education history
· Learn about the archives of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS)
· Present original research at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting
· Collaborate with other historians of education, make new friends and have fun!
The Chicago Public Schools has undergone multiple waves of reform in the twentieth and twenty-first century. The most radical of these took place in 1988 with the Chicago School Reform Act. While a highly documented reform effort, this landmark experiment warrants more attention given its complexity and significant legacy. Questions remain for historians of education to investigate: Who were the local, state and national players pushing for community involvement? What were the roots of the 1988 establishment of the Local School Councils (LSCs) embedded in the reform legislation? How did a centralized system roll out a decentralized plan of governance? How did CPS address the “training” of LSC members? What was deemed essential for them to know in order to fulfill their responsibilities? Who did the training and why? How did “charting reform” affect the work of reform in Chicago Public Schools? The CPS archives contain an array of documents and reports on the years before, during and after related to this legislation. There is also a full set of the Chicago Board of Education Proceedings.
For background reading on the focus of this project, see the following:
Jeffrey Mirel, “School Reform Chicago Style, Educational Innovation in a Changing Urban Context, 1976-
1991,” Urban Education, 28, no. 2 (1993): 116-149.
Dorothy Shipps, “Pulling Together: Civic Capacity and Urban School Reform,” American Educational
Research Journal, 40, no. 4 (2003): 841-878.
J. Q. Easton & S. L. Storey, “The development of local school councils. Education and Urban Society, 26,
no. 3 (1994), 220-237.
What is involved?
Participants will receive electronic links and text this fall. On the mornings of November 3rd and 4th, we will meet at the CPS archives to break into teams and conduct archival research. On Sunday morning, November 6, we will present our research findings in a panel session at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting.
How do I apply?
Interested graduate students should email the Research Session sponsors no later than October 1, 2011. Please include a resume and explain, briefly, your interest in the project.
Ben Justice Ann Marie Ryan Dionne Danns
Rutgers University Loyola University Chicago Indiana University
Graduate School of Education School of Education School of Education
bjust@rci.rutgers.edu aryan3@luc.edu ddanns@indiana.edu
(732) 932-7495 ext. 8110 (312) 915-6232 (812) 856-8398
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