Campbell F Scribner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1585008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Campbell F Scribner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Campbell F |
| FAMILY NAME | Scribner |
| SIGNATURE | SCRIBNER C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0562-5910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The limits of large language models and the necessity of human cognition in K-12 education
The challenge of boredom in education
This essay explores the relationship between boredom, leisure, selfhood, and education in Kevin Hood Gary’s book, Why Boredom Matters, paying particular attention to connections between Aristotelian and existentialist approaches to the subject. Following Gary, the essay argues that schools force students to endure boredom or try to stimulate them with distractions, rather than helping them focus on enduring sources of meaning or cultivate stronge…
Backtalk
The 2021-22 school year brought with it a wave of vandalism, much of it taking place in school vandalism. Campbell Scribner explains that such vandalism is not new and briefly traces the history of bathroom vandalism and how schools have responded. He urges school leaders to respond not with undue suspicion and surveillance, but with an eye to promoting student autonomy and growth
Surveying the Destruction of African American Schoolhouses in the South, 1864–1876
This essay surveys the destruction of 631 African American schools during the Reconstruction era. Drawing from newspaper reports, congressional testimony, and the archives of the Freedmen’s Bureau, it provides the most comprehensive account to date of violence against African American education in the postwar South. However, acknowledging that the total number of schools destroyed was probably far higher, the article also explores the forces that…
Discipline, punishment, and the moral community of schools
The following article surveys changes to school punishment in the United States over the past century – particularly, the rise of exclusionary methods and the school-to-prison pipeline – to argue that prevailing disciplinary techniques are out of step with the developmental ethos of education and the principles of democratic oversight. To remedy these shortcomings, it offers a defense of schools as moral communities and outlines disciplinary resp…
David A. Gamson, The Importance of Being Urban
An Aristotelian Defence of Affirmative Action
We argue that Alasdair MacIntyre's description of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as an exemplar of practical reasoning, who envisions the contextual and consensual balancing of different goods according to the further good of the American social order, enables a reinterpretation of O'Connor's majority opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, the landmark affirmative action decision. Grutter has been criticised for arbitrarily claiming that diversity is a co…
C amille W alsh . Racial Taxation
Americans often conflate citizenship with taxation, assuming that taxpayers have stronger claims than others to constitutional rights, public services, or political voice. In conservative circles, particularly, this idea has smoothed over differences between wealthy and working-class voters, giving both groups a claim to civic virtue. Those claims do not bear much scrutiny. As Camille Walsh points out in her timely and compelling new book, Racial…
American Teenagers, Educational Exchange, and Cold War Politics
The following article documents the expansion of high school exchange programs during the Cold War. It also examines the potential conflicts underlying that expansion, which relied on preexisting networks of government agencies and private philanthropies and sometimes conflated the rhetoric of world peace with a narrower pursuit of American interests. Ultimately, the article contends, experiences abroad prompted teenagers to criticize American fo…
Beyond the Metropolis
This article examines the legal and political significance of teacher unionization in rural and suburban school districts between 1960 and 1975. While most historians focus on the growth of unions in urban areas, strikes in outlying districts played a determinative role in the development of public sector labor law, particularly in the arbitration of professional rights and democratic oversight. After summarizing the relationship between unions a…
Make Your Voice Heard”
The launch of Sputnik in 1957 sparked a crisis in American education. Suddenly threatened by superior Soviet technology, progressive educators' concern for children's preferences, health, and adjustment in school yielded to public demands for more basic learning and academic skills. Congress soon passed the National Defense Education Act, providing millions of dollars for math, science, and foreign language instruction. By the early 1960s, educat…
American Teenagers, Educational Exchange, and Cold War Politics
The following article documents the expansion of high school exchange programs during the Cold War. It also examines the potential conflicts underlying that expansion, which relied on preexisting networks of government agencies and private philanthropies and sometimes conflated the rhetoric of world peace with a narrower pursuit of American interests. Ultimately, the article contends, experiences abroad prompted teenagers to criticize American fo…
Make Your Voice Heard”
The launch of Sputnik in 1957 sparked a crisis in American education. Suddenly threatened by superior Soviet technology, progressive educators' concern for children's preferences, health, and adjustment in school yielded to public demands for more basic learning and academic skills. Congress soon passed the National Defense Education Act, providing millions of dollars for math, science, and foreign language instruction. By the early 1960s, educat…
Beyond the Metropolis
This article examines the legal and political significance of teacher unionization in rural and suburban school districts between 1960 and 1975. While most historians focus on the growth of unions in urban areas, strikes in outlying districts played a determinative role in the development of public sector labor law, particularly in the arbitration of professional rights and democratic oversight. After summarizing the relationship between unions a…
American Teenagers, Educational Exchange, and Cold War Politics
The following article documents the expansion of high school exchange programs during the Cold War. It also examines the potential conflicts underlying that expansion, which relied on preexisting networks of government agencies and private philanthropies and sometimes conflated the rhetoric of world peace with a narrower pursuit of American interests. Ultimately, the article contends, experiences abroad prompted teenagers to criticize American fo…
C amille W alsh . Racial Taxation
Americans often conflate citizenship with taxation, assuming that taxpayers have stronger claims than others to constitutional rights, public services, or political voice. In conservative circles, particularly, this idea has smoothed over differences between wealthy and working-class voters, giving both groups a claim to civic virtue. Those claims do not bear much scrutiny. As Camille Walsh points out in her timely and compelling new book, Racial…
Surveying the Destruction of African American Schoolhouses in the South, 1864–1876
This essay surveys the destruction of 631 African American schools during the Reconstruction era. Drawing from newspaper reports, congressional testimony, and the archives of the Freedmen’s Bureau, it provides the most comprehensive account to date of violence against African American education in the postwar South. However, acknowledging that the total number of schools destroyed was probably far higher, the article also explores the forces that…
Discipline, punishment, and the moral community of schools
The following article surveys changes to school punishment in the United States over the past century – particularly, the rise of exclusionary methods and the school-to-prison pipeline – to argue that prevailing disciplinary techniques are out of step with the developmental ethos of education and the principles of democratic oversight. To remedy these shortcomings, it offers a defense of schools as moral communities and outlines disciplinary resp…
David A. Gamson, The Importance of Being Urban
An Aristotelian Defence of Affirmative Action
We argue that Alasdair MacIntyre's description of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as an exemplar of practical reasoning, who envisions the contextual and consensual balancing of different goods according to the further good of the American social order, enables a reinterpretation of O'Connor's majority opinion in Grutter v. Bollinger, the landmark affirmative action decision. Grutter has been criticised for arbitrarily claiming that diversity is a co…
Backtalk
The 2021-22 school year brought with it a wave of vandalism, much of it taking place in school vandalism. Campbell Scribner explains that such vandalism is not new and briefly traces the history of bathroom vandalism and how schools have responded. He urges school leaders to respond not with undue suspicion and surveillance, but with an eye to promoting student autonomy and growth
The challenge of boredom in education
This essay explores the relationship between boredom, leisure, selfhood, and education in Kevin Hood Gary’s book, Why Boredom Matters, paying particular attention to connections between Aristotelian and existentialist approaches to the subject. Following Gary, the essay argues that schools force students to endure boredom or try to stimulate them with distractions, rather than helping them focus on enduring sources of meaning or cultivate stronge…
The limits of large language models and the necessity of human cognition in K-12 education
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