New South Governors and the Evolution of School Choice, 1980-1996

History of Education Quarterly · 2025-12-09

Abstract This article examines cases of governors who established a foundation for school choice between 1980 and 1996. Education was a strategic issue around which they sought to alleviate economic concerns and anxieties about desegregation to realize their vision of building, yet again, a New South. As part of this process, southern governors extolled the values of the free market in deracialized ways and networked to pass comprehensive education reform grounded in neoliberal ideologies including individualism and competition.

Private Schools for the Public Good: Historically Black High Schools in the South from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era, 1877–1930

The Journal of African American History · 2024-06-01

Historically Black high schools and those who led the drive to found them across the South proffer nuanced understandings of private schools and the public good in the history of education and the Black Freedom Struggle from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era. Black education advocates utilized the schoolhouse as a pathway to liberation. They used private means to build schools to establish a public good that stood at the center of communities whose members collectively envisioned a new future through their education. This article examines the deeper origins of secondary schools after Reconstruction through social and political mobilization that led to the founding of historically Black high schools across the South. The historical implications are central to a broader understanding of historically Black high schools and the larger public good they sought to actualize during the nadir of race relations.

A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865

Urban Education · 2023-07-07 · 4 citations

The Freedom School Movement originated at the nexus of the struggles for liberation and full citizenship. Beginning with the articulation of education as a means to freedom during the era of enslavement, the ideology behind Freedom Schools was an integral aspect of the long Black freedom struggle in the United States. Freedom Schools have continually recognized the integral role and contribution of Black activists and educators who, throughout the course of the United States’ history, have historically provided a counternarrative to white supremacy and racist policy through education grounded in the needs, aspirations, and wisdom of local community organizing.

Greenwashing or Definitional Disagreement? Coming to Terms with Sustainable Investing

The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing · 2023 · 4 citations

• Political Science
• Business
• Computer Science

Greenwashing is perceived to be a problem for sustainable investing. In a relatively new and rapidly growing field, however, claims of greenwashing are often less about asset managers misleading investors and more about unsettled definitional disagreements. Investors should be aware of this when encountering greenwashing claims and develop an understanding of the three main rationales for sustainable investing: values alignment, ESG integration, and impact. By providing investors the means to evaluate sustainable investments and their own sustainability preferences, this can reduce the mismatch between investor expectations and what sustainable investing products deliver, thereby reducing the perception that greenwashing is rampant.

:<i>Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching</i>

The Journal of African American History · 2023-03-01

A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865

2023-07-20

The Freedom School Movement originated at the nexus of the struggles for liberation and full citizenship. Beginning with the articulation of education as a means to freedom during the era of slavery, the ideology behind Freedom Schools was an integral aspect of the long Black freedom struggle in the US. These Schools have continually recognized the integral role and contribution of Black activists and educators who, throughout the course of the United States' history, have historically provided a counternarrative to White supremacy and racist policy through education grounded in the needs, aspirations, and wisdom of local community organizing.

A Pathway to Liberation: A History of the Freedom Schools and the Long Struggle for Justice Since 1865

2023-07-20

&lt;div&gt;The Freedom School Movement originated at the nexus of the struggles for liberation and full citizenship. Beginning with the articulation of education as a means to freedom during the era of slavery, the ideology behind Freedom Schools was an integral aspect of the long Black freedom struggle in the US. These Schools have continually recognized the integral role and contribution of Black activists and educators who, throughout the course of the United States’ history, have historically provided a counternarrative to White supremacy and racist policy through education grounded in the needs, aspirations, and wisdom of local community organizing.&lt;/div&gt;

“If you want police, we will have them”: Anti-Black Student Discipline in Southern Schools and the Rise of a New Carceral Logic, 1961-1975

Journal of Urban History · 2022 · 6 citations

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Criminology

This paper examines the southern influence and litigation around carceral logic in public education, as evident in the racialized disciplinary codes and police presence in schools that led to the criminalization of youth during desegregation through the 1960s and into the 1970s. Southern school districts and state legislators worked in tandem with law enforcement to increase discipline and surveillance in newly desegregated spaces, changed laws to swiftly prosecute and remove youth from schools, and increasingly targeted youth with harsh disciplinary policies grounded in racist assumptions categorizing Black students as inherently violent. This form of disciplinary power and control presaged federal legislation including the Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1965 and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and shaped the foundations of today’s anti-Black school discipline policies and police presence in schools. This article explicates how southern schools contributed to a burgeoning carceral logic that shared commonalities across the nation but at the same time were distinct from other regions.

Radicalizing the Schoolhouse

2022-05-24

A New Kind of Youth

The University of North Carolina Press eBooks · 2022-01-01 · 4 citations