Sian Zelbo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sian Zelbo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sian |
| FAMILY NAME | Zelbo |
| SIGNATURE | ZELBO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3819-6104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
New Math as a Popular Culture Phenomenon (1960 to 1980)
This study analyzes 191 popular cultural artifacts referencing New Math and shows that broader cultural themes of the postwar era, including the urgent need and potential of technological progress, align with widespread beliefs about New Math. The analysis reveals that the public knew little about New Math and regarded it as a mysterious, powerful new technology that would empower the next generation. The study suggests that the public’s percepti…
The Role of the United States Military Academy at West Point in the Formation of America’s Engineering Profession (1802 to 1850)
The United States Military Academy at West Point, founded in 1802, produced the nation’s first academically trained engineers and far more graduates than any other engineering program in America in the first half of the 19th century. Although these statistics suggest that the school had a profound effect on the engineering community at that time, the country in fact had a vibrant community of engineering practitioners who operated wholly apart fr…
E. J. Edmunds, School Integration, and White Supremacist Backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans
When the New Orleans school board appointed E. J. Edmunds, a light-skinned Afro-Creole man, the mathematics teacher for the city's best high school in 1875, the senior students walked out rather than have a “negro” as a teacher of “white youths.” Edmunds's appointment was a final, bold act by the city's mixed-race intellectual elite in exercising the political power they held under Radical Reconstruction to strip racial designations from public s…
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E. J. Edmunds, School Integration, and White Supremacist Backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans
When the New Orleans school board appointed E. J. Edmunds, a light-skinned Afro-Creole man, the mathematics teacher for the city's best high school in 1875, the senior students walked out rather than have a “negro” as a teacher of “white youths.” Edmunds's appointment was a final, bold act by the city's mixed-race intellectual elite in exercising the political power they held under Radical Reconstruction to strip racial designations from public s…
The Role of the United States Military Academy at West Point in the Formation of America’s Engineering Profession (1802 to 1850)
The United States Military Academy at West Point, founded in 1802, produced the nation’s first academically trained engineers and far more graduates than any other engineering program in America in the first half of the 19th century. Although these statistics suggest that the school had a profound effect on the engineering community at that time, the country in fact had a vibrant community of engineering practitioners who operated wholly apart fr…
New Math as a Popular Culture Phenomenon (1960 to 1980)
This study analyzes 191 popular cultural artifacts referencing New Math and shows that broader cultural themes of the postwar era, including the urgent need and potential of technological progress, align with widespread beliefs about New Math. The analysis reveals that the public knew little about New Math and regarded it as a mysterious, powerful new technology that would empower the next generation. The study suggests that the public’s percepti…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Backlash (1 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 works) · Cultural phenomenon (1 works) · Curriculum (1 works) · Economic history (1 works) · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (1 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (1 works)