Robert L Hampel
Biographic Data
| ID | 182626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Hampel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hampel |
| SIGNATURE | HAMPEL R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Enduring Relevance of Arthur G. Powell
Duck and Cover
Previous article No AccessBook ReviewDuck and Cover: Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education by Rick Ginsberg and Yong Zhao. New York: Teachers College Press, 2023. 186 pp., $105.00 (cloth).Robert L. HampelRobert L. HampelUniversity of Delaware Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookxLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDeta…
New Light on the History of Correspondence Schools
New Light on the History of Correspondence Schools Robert L. Hampel (bio) What we now call distance education began long before computers linked students and teachers. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, hundreds of private companies, public universities, and enterprising individuals sold instruction by mail. Nearly any subject could be pursued, but vocational training was the best seller. The company that dominated the field, enrolling nea…
Magic Learning Pill
The Journalist as Historian
Few books have the scope and sweep of Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). In 400 pages the author takes up five large topics. The first third is a history of the rise of standardized testing, especially the origins of the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the largest and best known nonprofit testing corporation in this country. The second part traces the post…
Books by Journalists on American Education
In 1995, Nicholas Lemann wrote an essay for the American Historical Review (AHR) in which he called himself a “non-academic historian” and described the rewards and challenges for that tribe. The Big Test should be scrutinized as the work of an historian, as this Forum does (and as I have done elsewhere, taking issue with his account of the formation of the Educational Testing Service in 1946 and 1947.) Here I will focus on the nonacademic part o…
More than the Facts
Contents: Educational Bookkeeping: The Research Division in the 1920s; The Research Division and Economic Crisis, the 1930s; War and Its Aftermath: The Research Division, 1940-1957; The Research Division in an NEA Crisis, 1957-1972; NEA Research Services: The End of the Research Division, 1972-1982; Continuity, Change, and the Appearance of Change, 1981-1990; The Present and the Past: The Research Division, 1990-1997; Conclusion; Index
Sociology
Learning from the Past
History and Educational Reform
Robert L. Hampel, William R. Johnson, David N. Plank, Diane Ravitch, David Tyack, Larry Cuban, History and Educational Reform, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 473-502
Seeds of Crisis
Beset by such controversies as whether they have the right to search students lockers for guns and drugs, big city schools are making adjustments unimaginable in earlier eras, when detention was still sufficient for keeping order. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is one city trying to cope with the educational challenges of the twentieth century. Seeds of Crisis examines the ways in which these challenges have affected the politics of education, the curricu…
Overextended
Research news and Comment
John Dewey and American Democracy
Governing the Young
The College Board and the School Curriculum
Selling Students Short
Compromise and Diversity in the American High School
The Last Little Citadel
Journal Article The Last Little Citadel: American High Schools since 1940. By Robert L. Hampel. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xiii + 209 pp. $15.95.) Get access Barbara A. Sizemore Barbara A. Sizemore University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 811–812, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903096 Published: 01 December 1986
Bottoms Up
Managers of Virtue
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Journal Article Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813–1852. By Robert L. Hampel. (Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1982. xvi + 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95.) Get access Jed Dannenbaum Jed Dannenbaum Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 971–972, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901223 Publishe…
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Selling Students Short
Seeds of Crisis
Beset by such controversies as whether they have the right to search students lockers for guns and drugs, big city schools are making adjustments unimaginable in earlier eras, when detention was still sufficient for keeping order. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is one city trying to cope with the educational challenges of the twentieth century. Seeds of Crisis examines the ways in which these challenges have affected the politics of education, the curricu…
Research news and Comment
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Magic Learning Pill
More than the Facts
Contents: Educational Bookkeeping: The Research Division in the 1920s; The Research Division and Economic Crisis, the 1930s; War and Its Aftermath: The Research Division, 1940-1957; The Research Division in an NEA Crisis, 1957-1972; NEA Research Services: The End of the Research Division, 1972-1982; Continuity, Change, and the Appearance of Change, 1981-1990; The Present and the Past: The Research Division, 1990-1997; Conclusion; Index
Learning from the Past
History and Educational Reform
Robert L. Hampel, William R. Johnson, David N. Plank, Diane Ravitch, David Tyack, Larry Cuban, History and Educational Reform, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 473-502
The College Board and the School Curriculum
Compromises of Conflicting Claims
The Contexts of Antebellum Reform
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Journal Article Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813–1852. By Robert L. Hampel. (Ann Arbor: UMI Research, 1982. xvi + 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95.) Get access Jed Dannenbaum Jed Dannenbaum Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 971–972, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901223 Publishe…
Managers of Virtue
Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852
Bottoms Up
The Last Little Citadel
Journal Article The Last Little Citadel: American High Schools since 1940. By Robert L. Hampel. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. xiii + 209 pp. $15.95.) Get access Barbara A. Sizemore Barbara A. Sizemore University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 811–812, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903096 Published: 01 December 1986
Selling Students Short
Compromise and Diversity in the American High School
The College Board and the School Curriculum
Governing the Young
John Dewey and American Democracy
Seeds of Crisis
Beset by such controversies as whether they have the right to search students lockers for guns and drugs, big city schools are making adjustments unimaginable in earlier eras, when detention was still sufficient for keeping order. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is one city trying to cope with the educational challenges of the twentieth century. Seeds of Crisis examines the ways in which these challenges have affected the politics of education, the curricu…
Overextended
Research news and Comment
Learning from the Past
History and Educational Reform
Robert L. Hampel, William R. Johnson, David N. Plank, Diane Ravitch, David Tyack, Larry Cuban, History and Educational Reform, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 473-502
Sociology
More than the Facts
Contents: Educational Bookkeeping: The Research Division in the 1920s; The Research Division and Economic Crisis, the 1930s; War and Its Aftermath: The Research Division, 1940-1957; The Research Division in an NEA Crisis, 1957-1972; NEA Research Services: The End of the Research Division, 1972-1982; Continuity, Change, and the Appearance of Change, 1981-1990; The Present and the Past: The Research Division, 1990-1997; Conclusion; Index
The Journalist as Historian
Few books have the scope and sweep of Nicholas Lemann's The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999). In 400 pages the author takes up five large topics. The first third is a history of the rise of standardized testing, especially the origins of the Educational Testing Service (ETS), the largest and best known nonprofit testing corporation in this country. The second part traces the post…
Books by Journalists on American Education
In 1995, Nicholas Lemann wrote an essay for the American Historical Review (AHR) in which he called himself a “non-academic historian” and described the rewards and challenges for that tribe. The Big Test should be scrutinized as the work of an historian, as this Forum does (and as I have done elsewhere, taking issue with his account of the formation of the Educational Testing Service in 1946 and 1947.) Here I will focus on the nonacademic part o…
New Light on the History of Correspondence Schools
New Light on the History of Correspondence Schools Robert L. Hampel (bio) What we now call distance education began long before computers linked students and teachers. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, hundreds of private companies, public universities, and enterprising individuals sold instruction by mail. Nearly any subject could be pursued, but vocational training was the best seller. The company that dominated the field, enrolling nea…
Magic Learning Pill
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