William W Cutler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1690647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William W Cutler |
| GIVEN NAMES | William W |
| FAMILY NAME | Cutler |
| SIGNATURE | CUTLER W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2052-4330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Battles of Germantown
Germantown is a place name shared by many American communities. In Philadelphia it is associated with a large area in the northwest corner of the city. First settled in the 1680s, the area joined Philadelphia in 1854 when the city and county of Philadelphia consolidated. Much larger than it is today, Germantown once stretched all the way from North Philadelphia to Montgomery County and included residential neighborhoods known as Mt. Airy and Ches…
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Historiography of Urban Public Education in Pennsylvania
William W. Cutler III, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Historiography of Urban Public Education in Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 141, No. 3, Education in Pennsylvania History (October 2017), pp. 221-243
William J. Reese. Testing Wars in the Public Schools
After the federal law known as No Child Left Behind took effect in 2002, the use of written achievement tests in America's public schools became a major political issue—or so we thought. William J. Reese has qualified, if not questioned, this common belief by arguing that the importance of achievement testing as a political issue really dates to the mid-1840s. In a book that devotes most of its attention to a brief but bitter confrontation betwee…
Outside In and Inside Out
In January of 1952 the School Executive, a professional journal for school administrators, published a special issue on citizens and schools that called attention to a flurry of citizen involvement with public education in the United States since the end of World War II. Of course, citizen participation in public education was, by then, nothing new. In the nineteenth century, citizens had often concerned themselves with schools, forming school so…
Head Masters
Even those with just a superficial knowledge of European and American history are probably aware that some reformers and social theorists in the early nineteenth century took an interest in the bumps on people's heads. These dilettantes associate phrenology with diagrams of the cranium and primitive ideas about the development in humans of their mental and moral faculties. But as Stephen Tomlinson demonstrates, it was much more than that. Phrenol…
Left Back
Nearly twentyfive years ago Diane Ravitch stunned those familiar with the historiography of American education by publishing a devastating critique of revisionist scholarship in the field. In The Revisionists Revised: A Critique of the Radical Attack on the Schools (1978) she rebuked Michael B. Katz, Clarence J. Karier, and Joel Spring, among others, for oversimplifying, distorting, and politicizing America's educational past. She accused them of…
Parents and Schools
Cultural Literacy, Historic Preservation, and Commemoration
Creating the Dropout
Journal Article Creating the Dropout: An Institutional and Social History of School Failure. By Sherman Dorn. (Westport: Praeger, 1997. x, 167 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-95175-8.) Get access William Cutler William Cutler Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1150–1151, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567349 P…
Philadelphia's Progressive Orphanage
Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity
Journal Article Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity: A Historical Perspective on Persistent Issues. By Maris A. Vinovskis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xvi, 235 pp. $28.50, ISBN 0-300-06269-9.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1…
Mastering Wartime
Journal Article Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia during the Civil War. By J. Matthew Gallman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiv + 354 pp. $49.50.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 336–337, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078171 Published: 01…
The Making of an American High School
This prize-winning book analyzes the origins and development of the first public high school in Philadelphia, which became a model for secondary schools elsewhere. Using Central High School as a case study, Labaree argues that the American public high school is the product of the struggle between egalitarianism and meritocracy that is endemic to a democratic society. Winner of the History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award and co-winne…
Cathedral of Culture
In the United States today schooling is thoroughly identified with the special place in which formal teaching and learning occur. So intimate is the link between schooling and the schoolhouse that in the 1960s “schools without walls,” where pupils learn while associating with adults in everyday environments, were hailed as revolutionary. Americans expect their young to be instructed in separate spaces, and since the inception of public education …
Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Childhood and the Family
The Divided Metropolis
Journal Article The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800–1975. Ed. by William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1980. xviii + 308 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access E. Digby Baltzell E. Digby Baltzell University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6…
The Systematization of American Education
A Preliminary Look at the Schoolhouse
The Evolution of an Urban School System
Journal Article The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1730–1830. By Carl F. Kaestle. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. xiv + 205 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $11.00.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, June 1974, Pages 162–163, https://d…
Oral History as a Teaching Tool
About a month ago I went to a regional meeting of the American Historical Association at a place called Immaculata College which is in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The topic of this meeting was improving the teaching of college history. College historians, college teachers of history, are at least from where I sit very uptight about the teaching of the discipline. Enrollments are shrinking. Survey courses are being abolished. Historians are in oversupp…
The Shaping of the American High School. Volume 2
Journal Article The Shaping of the American High School. Volume 2: 1920–1941. By Edward A. Krug. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972. xv + 375 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890258 Publish…
Status, Values and the Education of the Poor
Oral History. Its Nature and Uses for Educational History
TO SCHOLARS IN PURSUIT of Africa's past, the written record is a scarce and treasured resource. Among the primitive black cultures on this continent most history is oral history in the truest sense. Knowledge about the past passes by word of mouth from generation to generation, and not only must the scholar capture it but he must also try somehow to filter the significant from the inconsequential as well as the truth from the exaggerated. And yet…
The Making of an American High School
This prize-winning book analyzes the origins and development of the first public high school in Philadelphia, which became a model for secondary schools elsewhere. Using Central High School as a case study, Labaree argues that the American public high school is the product of the struggle between egalitarianism and meritocracy that is endemic to a democratic society. Winner of the History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award and co-winne…
Cathedral of Culture
In the United States today schooling is thoroughly identified with the special place in which formal teaching and learning occur. So intimate is the link between schooling and the schoolhouse that in the 1960s “schools without walls,” where pupils learn while associating with adults in everyday environments, were hailed as revolutionary. Americans expect their young to be instructed in separate spaces, and since the inception of public education …
The Divided Metropolis
Journal Article The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800–1975. Ed. by William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1980. xviii + 308 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access E. Digby Baltzell E. Digby Baltzell University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6…
Status, Values and the Education of the Poor
Oral History. Its Nature and Uses for Educational History
TO SCHOLARS IN PURSUIT of Africa's past, the written record is a scarce and treasured resource. Among the primitive black cultures on this continent most history is oral history in the truest sense. Knowledge about the past passes by word of mouth from generation to generation, and not only must the scholar capture it but he must also try somehow to filter the significant from the inconsequential as well as the truth from the exaggerated. And yet…
Parents and Schools
Cultural Literacy, Historic Preservation, and Commemoration
The Evolution of an Urban School System
Journal Article The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1730–1830. By Carl F. Kaestle. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. xiv + 205 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $11.00.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, June 1974, Pages 162–163, https://d…
Oral History. Its Nature and Uses for Educational History
TO SCHOLARS IN PURSUIT of Africa's past, the written record is a scarce and treasured resource. Among the primitive black cultures on this continent most history is oral history in the truest sense. Knowledge about the past passes by word of mouth from generation to generation, and not only must the scholar capture it but he must also try somehow to filter the significant from the inconsequential as well as the truth from the exaggerated. And yet…
The Shaping of the American High School. Volume 2
Journal Article The Shaping of the American High School. Volume 2: 1920–1941. By Edward A. Krug. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972. xv + 375 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 460–461, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890258 Publish…
Status, Values and the Education of the Poor
Oral History as a Teaching Tool
About a month ago I went to a regional meeting of the American Historical Association at a place called Immaculata College which is in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The topic of this meeting was improving the teaching of college history. College historians, college teachers of history, are at least from where I sit very uptight about the teaching of the discipline. Enrollments are shrinking. Survey courses are being abolished. Historians are in oversupp…
A Preliminary Look at the Schoolhouse
The Evolution of an Urban School System
Journal Article The Evolution of an Urban School System: New York City, 1730–1830. By Carl F. Kaestle. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. xiv + 205 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $11.00.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, June 1974, Pages 162–163, https://d…
The Systematization of American Education
The Divided Metropolis
Journal Article The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800–1975. Ed. by William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette, Jr. (Westport: Greenwood, 1980. xviii + 308 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access E. Digby Baltzell E. Digby Baltzell University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6…
Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Childhood and the Family
The Making of an American High School
This prize-winning book analyzes the origins and development of the first public high school in Philadelphia, which became a model for secondary schools elsewhere. Using Central High School as a case study, Labaree argues that the American public high school is the product of the struggle between egalitarianism and meritocracy that is endemic to a democratic society. Winner of the History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award and co-winne…
Cathedral of Culture
In the United States today schooling is thoroughly identified with the special place in which formal teaching and learning occur. So intimate is the link between schooling and the schoolhouse that in the 1960s “schools without walls,” where pupils learn while associating with adults in everyday environments, were hailed as revolutionary. Americans expect their young to be instructed in separate spaces, and since the inception of public education …
Mastering Wartime
Journal Article Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia during the Civil War. By J. Matthew Gallman. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xiv + 354 pp. $49.50.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 336–337, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078171 Published: 01…
Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity
Journal Article Education, Society, and Economic Opportunity: A Historical Perspective on Persistent Issues. By Maris A. Vinovskis. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xvi, 235 pp. $28.50, ISBN 0-300-06269-9.) Get access William W. Cutler, III William W. Cutler, III Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1…
Creating the Dropout
Journal Article Creating the Dropout: An Institutional and Social History of School Failure. By Sherman Dorn. (Westport: Praeger, 1997. x, 167 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-275-95175-8.) Get access William Cutler William Cutler Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1150–1151, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567349 P…
Philadelphia's Progressive Orphanage
Cultural Literacy, Historic Preservation, and Commemoration
Left Back
Nearly twentyfive years ago Diane Ravitch stunned those familiar with the historiography of American education by publishing a devastating critique of revisionist scholarship in the field. In The Revisionists Revised: A Critique of the Radical Attack on the Schools (1978) she rebuked Michael B. Katz, Clarence J. Karier, and Joel Spring, among others, for oversimplifying, distorting, and politicizing America's educational past. She accused them of…
Parents and Schools
Head Masters
Even those with just a superficial knowledge of European and American history are probably aware that some reformers and social theorists in the early nineteenth century took an interest in the bumps on people's heads. These dilettantes associate phrenology with diagrams of the cranium and primitive ideas about the development in humans of their mental and moral faculties. But as Stephen Tomlinson demonstrates, it was much more than that. Phrenol…
Outside In and Inside Out
In January of 1952 the School Executive, a professional journal for school administrators, published a special issue on citizens and schools that called attention to a flurry of citizen involvement with public education in the United States since the end of World War II. Of course, citizen participation in public education was, by then, nothing new. In the nineteenth century, citizens had often concerned themselves with schools, forming school so…
William J. Reese. Testing Wars in the Public Schools
After the federal law known as No Child Left Behind took effect in 2002, the use of written achievement tests in America's public schools became a major political issue—or so we thought. William J. Reese has qualified, if not questioned, this common belief by arguing that the importance of achievement testing as a political issue really dates to the mid-1840s. In a book that devotes most of its attention to a brief but bitter confrontation betwee…
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Historiography of Urban Public Education in Pennsylvania
William W. Cutler III, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Historiography of Urban Public Education in Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 141, No. 3, Education in Pennsylvania History (October 2017), pp. 221-243
The Battles of Germantown
Germantown is a place name shared by many American communities. In Philadelphia it is associated with a large area in the northwest corner of the city. First settled in the 1680s, the area joined Philadelphia in 1854 when the city and county of Philadelphia consolidated. Much larger than it is today, Germantown once stretched all the way from North Philadelphia to Montgomery County and included residential neighborhoods known as Mt. Airy and Ches…
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