Jack Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 3828614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8983-2679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Learning Loss
The pandemic disrupted schools’ ability to provide students with essential academic and social-emotional resources. To date, research on pandemic-related learning loss has focused on standardized test scores and absenteeism, leaving the impact on student experiences underexplored. This study examines 6 years of student survey data to assess how student experience outcomes changed before, during, and after the pandemic. Using piecewise growth mode…
Uncertainty
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Time well spent? Teacher perspectives on time-saving reforms
American teachers spend far more time on direct instruction than teachers in other countries, leaving little room for tasks like planning, collaboration, and student support. Policy makers have proposed numerous time-saving reforms, yet teachers rarely have a voice in assessing the viability of approaches. Drawing on a national survey and focus group, Ashley J. Carey, Breanne Lucy, and Jack Schneider examine teacher perspectives on five major ref…
Access, Inclusion, and Power
Who should have access to education, what should that education look like, and how should change be executed?Such questions are particularly salient as this issue goes to press.In the US, leaders at the federal level have advanced a vision that would reduce access to higher education, particularly for historically marginalized groups.At the same time, the White House has advocated for privatizing the K-12 education system in the names of free mar…
Effigy Tumuli
Michael Heizer (b. 1944 Berkeley, CA; lives and works in New York, NY, and Garden Valley, NV) is among the best-known artists associated with Land art, a movement that originated in the late 1960s characterized by large sculptures called “earthworks” largely made from materials found in the remote landscapes where they are sited. While scholars of Land art often fleetingly mention the influence of Native visual cultures on earthwork artists, the …
Politics, Place, and Perspectives in Education History
History and the Politics of Nostalgia
The politics of nostalgia has become a dominant theme in the United States, where HEQ is headquartered. 1 But the US is not exceptional in this regard.Far-right populist movements around the world have made effective use of wistful slogans about the past, upending long-standing political orders. 2 Argentinian president Javier Milei, for instance, has coupled his signature "Viva la libertad, carajo!" with "Make Argentina Great Again." 3 Italian pr…
Nations and Communities
This past January, Donald Trump began a second, non-consecutive term in the White House.Having campaigned on an "America First" agenda, the new president immediately began signing executive orders to execute that vision. 1 To many observers, the common thread linking these actions, which ranged from declaring a national border emergency to instructing federal agencies to follow a two-gender policy, was obvious. 2 But to the extent that they may p…
International Perspectives in an Era of Isolationism
Talking back to the failing-schools narrative
PDK polls consistently show that parents give their children’s schools high marks but are dissatisfied with the performance of public schools nationally. This paradox may be explained by the persistent narrative of failing public schools that has dominated media coverage in the past 50 years. Authors Mark Hlavacik and Jack Schneider tracked the prevalence of the failing-schools narrative in print publications, books, and other media. They found c…
Deliberating across difference
Dialogue, listening, and compromise are essential elements of living in a democracy. In a highly partisan time, is it possible to reestablish common ground when it comes to how best to educate our children in and for democracy? Authors Brendan Sheran, Ashley Carey, Jack Schneider, Rebecca Woodland, and Kathryn McDermott, who are affiliated with Center for Education Policy (CEP) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, outline a process called …
Education, Power, and Control
The United States has entered a period of fundamental transformation, in which legal and political assumptions of the past no longer apply.Over the past few years, we've seen the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a dissolving barrier between church and state, and the gutting of civil rights legislation.Political rhetoric, meanwhile, has reached a fevered pitch.Contesting elections has become almost fashionable, and violating election laws has become a …
Politics, Public Policy, and Sex Education
Educators have long overheard students give each other advice about sex.It's part of the background chatter that happens before class starts, in the hallway between classes, or during lunch in the cafeteria."Don't worry, " one student was overheard saying in Charlotte, North Carolina."You can't get pregnant if you're wearing that friendship bracelet." 1 Students at this particular school faced a wide variety of economic challenges-more than 90 pe…
Democracy and Free Speech on Campus
In recent months, protests at US colleges and universities-replete with sit-ins, anti-war slogans, tent villages, and arrests of students-have inspired comparisons with 1960sera activism. 1During that convulsive period, students responded to the Vietnam War by turning their campuses into sites for civil disobedience and forums for free speech.In response, politicians like Ronald Reagan decried the permissiveness of college and university leaders …
Forum on Future Directions for History of Education
Off the Mark
Off the Mark
Teaching students to be skilled citizens
Interest in improving civic education is growing, but there’s no clear definition of what civic education should be. To understand what kinds of skills civics education should promote in students, Jack Schneider, Eric Soto-Shed, and Karalyn McGovern surveyed 100 experts and 500 ordinary citizens, asking them to name the tasks that skilled citizens engage in. The activities respondents named most frequently involved political engagement, building …
Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of San Antonio v. Rodriguez
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The Public and Its Education
The articles in this issue travel across time-from the late eighteenth century to the 1960s-as well as across three continents and a variety of subfields. They range in focus from primary schooling to postsecondary levels of education. And, collectively, they form what the HEQ editorial team affectionately calls a "potpourri" issue-one without a uniting theme beyond the high quality of the work it contains
Between the Global and the Local
Globalization, we're often reminded, has produced an unprecedented flow of goods, labor, and ideas across borders.Headlines tend to describe it as a recent phenomenon that has relied heavily on the rise of new technologies. 1Historians, however, paint a different picture.Two of the articles in this issue reveal ways that global interests have intersected with local experiences-long before email, the internet, and social media made their debut.Con…
Special Issue on Inclusion and Empowerment
Scholars, pundits, and public figures-a large and varied group of them-have begun warning that American democracy faces very real threats. 1Some see the January 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington, DC, as a crucial turning point.Others focus on the rise of white supremacy movements and expansion of voter suppression efforts.Still others highlight the waves of misinformation and disinformation that wash over the public daily.This past fall, Presid…
Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’
Parents and the public use accountability data to judge if schools are doing a good or a bad job educating their students. However, using the current data, schools perceived as “good” tend to be in better-resourced districts and enroll higher percentages of wealthy and white students. Schools perceived as “bad” tend to be in more economically oppressed districts and enroll higher percentages of low-income students and students of color. James Noo…
Concluding Note on Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research
Concluding Note on Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research." Peabody Journal of Education, 97(1), pp. 126–127
Between Recent Political Controversies and Long-Standing Education Histories
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Rhetoric and practice in pre-service teacher education
Teach For America (TFA), an organization that places college graduates in urban and rural classrooms for two-year terms of service, is lauded by reformers who see its five-week summer training institute as evidence that teachers have little to learn before entering classrooms. Yet, while boosters see TFA as a radical alternative to traditional teacher education, a look at the evolution of their increasingly robust summer training model hardly aff…
Escape From Los Angeles
In 1960, Los Angeles was still a decidedly white city. By 1980, it no longer was. What happened in Los Angeles was not uncommon elsewhere, as white residents fled city centers in the latter half of the twentieth century to pursue visions of the suburban good life. Whites abandoned central cities, and as a consequence, the school systems of those urban areas began to reflect their populations—struggling, under-resourced, and non-white. But in Los …
Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of San Antonio v. Rodriguez
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Student Experience Outcomes in Racially Integrated Schools
In this study, we examine eight social and emotional outcomes (e.g., student engagement, sense of belonging) analyzing differences for students who attend racially diverse schools. Drawing on survey responses from roughly 26,000 students, we find that racially diverse schools are associated with more positive social and emotional outcomes for all students. Strikingly, we find that these outcomes are most uniformly positive among white students, w…
The Echo of Reform Rhetoric
The public discussion of education consistently emphasizes school failure. To better understand this rhetoric, we tracked its appearance in five prominent print outlets from 1984 to 2016. By distinguishing between arguments about local schools and the nation’s schools, we found that discussions of “failing schools” surged first as a claim about the nation’s schools and then as a claim about local schools. But, whereas the discussion of national f…
Marching Forward, Marching in Circles
This essay tracks the history of teacher preparation, from its origins in the early republic to the present. In so doing, it tells two stories. The first is a story about problems-a linear story in which problems are discovered, potential solutions are generated, and positive results are achieved. It moves from the past to the future and from the old to the new. The other story is about dilemmas. And because dilemmas cannot be solved, the passage…
Escape From Los Angeles
In 1960, Los Angeles was still a decidedly white city. By 1980, it no longer was. What happened in Los Angeles was not uncommon elsewhere, as white residents fled city centers in the latter half of the twentieth century to pursue visions of the suburban good life. Whites abandoned central cities, and as a consequence, the school systems of those urban areas began to reflect their populations—struggling, under-resourced, and non-white. But in Los …
Remembrance of Things Past
The Socratic method is a common touchstone in conversations about classroom pedagogy, widely believed to enhance student engagement and promote critical thinking. Understood as the historical inheritance of antiquity, the method is generally accepted by teachers, administrators, and scholars as a legitimate approach to instruction.As this article reveals, however, the Socratic method was not passed down from ancient Athens across continents and m…
Now Where Do We Go from Here?” Separateness, Integration, and Pluralism in Philadelphia
Schooling for racial, ethnic, or religious minorities presents a challenge in the American democracy. Such groups, insofar as they are equal citizens, have the right to maintain their identities. As such, they have often used separate educational institutions to transmit distinct traditions, values, and mores. To the extent that the American experiment is a pluralistic one, the decision to remain different from dominant groups is a valid one
Rhetoric and practice in pre-service teacher education
Teach For America (TFA), an organization that places college graduates in urban and rural classrooms for two-year terms of service, is lauded by reformers who see its five-week summer training institute as evidence that teachers have little to learn before entering classrooms. Yet, while boosters see TFA as a radical alternative to traditional teacher education, a look at the evolution of their increasingly robust summer training model hardly aff…
Marching Forward, Marching in Circles
This essay tracks the history of teacher preparation, from its origins in the early republic to the present. In so doing, it tells two stories. The first is a story about problems-a linear story in which problems are discovered, potential solutions are generated, and positive results are achieved. It moves from the past to the future and from the old to the new. The other story is about dilemmas. And because dilemmas cannot be solved, the passage…
Educational accountability is out of step — Now more than ever
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light many of the essential nonacademic functions of U.S. schools, such as meals, mental health support, and opportunities for students whose families lack resources. Yet, as Derek Gottlieb and Jack Schneider explain, schools continue to be evaluated primarily on students’ academic outcomes. They call for a reconsideration of current accountability measures to take into account the multifaceted work of schools
Authority and Control
In this essay, Jack Schneider and Andrew Saultz offer a new perspective on state and federal power through their analysis of authority and control. Due to limitations inherent to centralized governance, state and federal offices of education exercised little control over schools across much of the twentieth century, even as they acquired considerable authority. By the 1980s, however, such loose coupling had become politically untenable and led to…
In Praise of Ordinary Measures
State and federal policymakers “see” school performance via formal measures — data collected with attendance sheets and standardized tests. Such an approach, though not without its merits, is extremely limited and inherently exposed to the threat of systematic misperception and unintended consequences, especially as policymakers try to use data to leverage on‐the‐ground change. In this essay, Jack Schneider and Derek Gottlieb discuss the limitati…
The Echo of Reform Rhetoric
The public discussion of education consistently emphasizes school failure. To better understand this rhetoric, we tracked its appearance in five prominent print outlets from 1984 to 2016. By distinguishing between arguments about local schools and the nation’s schools, we found that discussions of “failing schools” surged first as a claim about the nation’s schools and then as a claim about local schools. But, whereas the discussion of national f…
They will liberate themselves”
The Black Appalachian educational experience during the civil rights era has largely been obscured by mythologies of invisibility and regional racial innocence. The narrative in this article counters these myths through the stories of Black Appalachians who came of age during the 1950s and 1960s in Jenkins, a southeastern Kentucky coal town. It explores the nuances and complexities of Jim Crow in this Appalachian community and demonstrates the va…
New Directions in Higher Education History
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Place, Space, and Localism in Education History
All historians know they must in some way reckon with place. The raw material of historical inquiry emerges not just from particular times, but also from particular locations-places and spaces that shape the form and meaning of past events. Still, recent scholarship suggests that we have yet to fully tap the potential of place in our decisions about sources and what they mean. 1 Traditional conceptions of place have largely aligned with political…
Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’
Parents and the public use accountability data to judge if schools are doing a good or a bad job educating their students. However, using the current data, schools perceived as “good” tend to be in better-resourced districts and enroll higher percentages of wealthy and white students. Schools perceived as “bad” tend to be in more economically oppressed districts and enroll higher percentages of low-income students and students of color. James Noo…
Concluding Note on Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research
Concluding Note on Thinking Ecologically in Educational Policy and Research." Peabody Journal of Education, 97(1), pp. 126–127
Between Recent Political Controversies and Long-Standing Education Histories
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Expanding Our Ways of Seeing through Comparative and International Histories of Education
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Special Issue on the Twentieth Anniversary of No Child Left Behind
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is arguably the most important piece of educational legislation in recent US history. It has transformed school organization and practice, realigned governance relationships, and structured a new way of thinking and talking about student learning. In light of this, NCLB has been the subject of countless books and articles, the vast majority of which have sought to understand the impact of the law
Known Unknowns
India currently has a population of 1.38 billion people. It's the most populous democracy in the world, the US a distant second. As such, India is home to more schools (1.5 million), students (250 million), and teachers (9.7 million), as well as more postsecondary faculty (1.5 million) and institutions (55,000) than just about anywhere in the world. The sheer numbers are staggering, and the historical research possibilities appear endless. 1 Desp…
Student Experience Outcomes in Racially Integrated Schools
In this study, we examine eight social and emotional outcomes (e.g., student engagement, sense of belonging) analyzing differences for students who attend racially diverse schools. Drawing on survey responses from roughly 26,000 students, we find that racially diverse schools are associated with more positive social and emotional outcomes for all students. Strikingly, we find that these outcomes are most uniformly positive among white students, w…
Off the Mark
Off the Mark
Teaching students to be skilled citizens
Interest in improving civic education is growing, but there’s no clear definition of what civic education should be. To understand what kinds of skills civics education should promote in students, Jack Schneider, Eric Soto-Shed, and Karalyn McGovern surveyed 100 experts and 500 ordinary citizens, asking them to name the tasks that skilled citizens engage in. The activities respondents named most frequently involved political engagement, building …
Reflections on the Fiftieth Anniversary of San Antonio v. Rodriguez
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The Public and Its Education
The articles in this issue travel across time-from the late eighteenth century to the 1960s-as well as across three continents and a variety of subfields. They range in focus from primary schooling to postsecondary levels of education. And, collectively, they form what the HEQ editorial team affectionately calls a "potpourri" issue-one without a uniting theme beyond the high quality of the work it contains
Between the Global and the Local
Globalization, we're often reminded, has produced an unprecedented flow of goods, labor, and ideas across borders.Headlines tend to describe it as a recent phenomenon that has relied heavily on the rise of new technologies. 1Historians, however, paint a different picture.Two of the articles in this issue reveal ways that global interests have intersected with local experiences-long before email, the internet, and social media made their debut.Con…
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