Dara Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3741976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dara Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dara |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3905-1756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Learning to Struggle, Learning to Govern
This article examines the role of nontraditional education in Black youth’s efforts to navigate postwar transformations in Detroit, Michigan. While historians have debated the role of social movements in contestations over urban space, there is still a great deal to learn about the place of education and the young people who would inherit the city in these movements. Marshaling the analytical frameworks of social history and intellectual history,…
Music that Moves Me”
Harambee City
For more than a decade, historians have posed critical challenges to the long-held view that the Black Power movement constituted the decline of the long Black freedom struggle. This burgeoning sch
The O Grade of the Scottish Certificate of Education
S ummary . The O grade of the Scottish Certificate of Education was introduced in 1962 as a certificate appropriate for those in the top 30 per cent of the age‐group who had completed at least four years of secondary education. The number of subject presentations has risen from about 177,000 to over 246,000 in the first seven years—and it has been observed that pupils of under‐average ability have been among the successful candidates. This has ra…
Differences in Test Score and in the Gaining of Selective Places for Scottish Children and Those in England and Wales
The National Survey is a longitudinal study of 5,000 boys and girls born in 1946. In this paper the test scores and allocation to selective courses of children living in Scotland are compared with those in England and Wales. The Scottish pupils were superior to the English and Welsh in the tests of sentence completion and reading at 8 years, in arithmetic at 11 years and in mathematics at 15 years, whereas the English and Welsh were superior in t…
Differences in Test Score and in the Gaining of Selective Places for Scottish Children and Those in England and Wales
The National Survey is a longitudinal study of 5,000 boys and girls born in 1946. In this paper the test scores and allocation to selective courses of children living in Scotland are compared with those in England and Wales. The Scottish pupils were superior to the English and Welsh in the tests of sentence completion and reading at 8 years, in arithmetic at 11 years and in mathematics at 15 years, whereas the English and Welsh were superior in t…
Differences in Test Score and in the Gaining of Selective Places for Scottish Children and Those in England and Wales
The National Survey is a longitudinal study of 5,000 boys and girls born in 1946. In this paper the test scores and allocation to selective courses of children living in Scotland are compared with those in England and Wales. The Scottish pupils were superior to the English and Welsh in the tests of sentence completion and reading at 8 years, in arithmetic at 11 years and in mathematics at 15 years, whereas the English and Welsh were superior in t…
The O Grade of the Scottish Certificate of Education
S ummary . The O grade of the Scottish Certificate of Education was introduced in 1962 as a certificate appropriate for those in the top 30 per cent of the age‐group who had completed at least four years of secondary education. The number of subject presentations has risen from about 177,000 to over 246,000 in the first seven years—and it has been observed that pupils of under‐average ability have been among the successful candidates. This has ra…
Harambee City
For more than a decade, historians have posed critical challenges to the long-held view that the Black Power movement constituted the decline of the long Black freedom struggle. This burgeoning sch
Music that Moves Me”
Learning to Struggle, Learning to Govern
This article examines the role of nontraditional education in Black youth’s efforts to navigate postwar transformations in Detroit, Michigan. While historians have debated the role of social movements in contestations over urban space, there is still a great deal to learn about the place of education and the young people who would inherit the city in these movements. Marshaling the analytical frameworks of social history and intellectual history,…
History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Black Power (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)