Tracy L Steffes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy L Steffes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Steffes |
| SIGNATURE | STEFFES T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Multiracial Promise
Journal Article The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America Get access The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America. By Gordon K Mantler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 354 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $29.95.) Tracy L Steffes Tracy L Steffes Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by thi…
The Education Trap
In The Education Trap, Groeger explores how the modern American education system and corporate economy mutually constituted one another from 1880 through the Great Depression. Using Boston as a case study, she analyzes how schooling expanded and became the primary pathway to work across the employment structure in this period, replacing a wide array of pathways and informal training, including apprenticeships, kinship, and ethnic networks. This t…
Assessment Matters
This article explores the passage and failure of the 1973 Illinois Resource Equalizer formula which was designed to reduce disparities in school finance by breaking the connection between local wealth and school revenue. It argues that two sets of goals drove passage of the new law—equity and local property tax relief—and they came into conflict during implementation, with the latter winning out over the former. It argues that to understand both …
Shaped by the State
In the introduction to their edited volume, Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams challenge scholars of modern American political history to revisit an overarching framework: the rise of the New Deal political order and its displacement by a conservative and/or neoliberal one. This framework of the rise and fall of the New Deal order, they contend, obscures continuities and persistent features of American politics that cut across chron…
Courtrooms and Classrooms
In Courtrooms and Classrooms Scott M. Gelber explores the history of courts’ “academic deference”—their tendency to defer to the special expertise and autonomy of colleges and universities. Legal scholars and higher education advocates who assume academic deference was a long-standing tradition unseated by the tumult of the 1960s have gotten this history wrong, he argues, for the principle of academic deference has been more fluid and is of more …
Managing School Integration and White Flight
This article explores the policy conversation and efforts around school integration in Chicago during the 1960s. It analyzes how a conversation that originated in demands for equality for black students was transformed into one about keeping whites in the city and analyzes the consequences of this shift. Worried that integration might produce more segregation as whites fled, the school board responded to the advice of experts and pleas of some wh…
Solving the “Rural School Problem”
“The greatest educational problem now facing the American people is the Rural School Problem,” argued Minnesota county superintendent Julius Arp in 1918. “There is no defect more glaring today than the inequality that exists between the educational facilities of the urban and rural communities. Rural education in the United States has been so far outstripped by the education of our urban centers, that from an educational standpoint, the country c…
Shaped by the State
In the introduction to their edited volume, Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams challenge scholars of modern American political history to revisit an overarching framework: the rise of the New Deal political order and its displacement by a conservative and/or neoliberal one. This framework of the rise and fall of the New Deal order, they contend, obscures continuities and persistent features of American politics that cut across chron…
Solving the “Rural School Problem”
“The greatest educational problem now facing the American people is the Rural School Problem,” argued Minnesota county superintendent Julius Arp in 1918. “There is no defect more glaring today than the inequality that exists between the educational facilities of the urban and rural communities. Rural education in the United States has been so far outstripped by the education of our urban centers, that from an educational standpoint, the country c…
Assessment Matters
This article explores the passage and failure of the 1973 Illinois Resource Equalizer formula which was designed to reduce disparities in school finance by breaking the connection between local wealth and school revenue. It argues that two sets of goals drove passage of the new law—equity and local property tax relief—and they came into conflict during implementation, with the latter winning out over the former. It argues that to understand both …
Managing School Integration and White Flight
This article explores the policy conversation and efforts around school integration in Chicago during the 1960s. It analyzes how a conversation that originated in demands for equality for black students was transformed into one about keeping whites in the city and analyzes the consequences of this shift. Worried that integration might produce more segregation as whites fled, the school board responded to the advice of experts and pleas of some wh…
Solving the “Rural School Problem”
“The greatest educational problem now facing the American people is the Rural School Problem,” argued Minnesota county superintendent Julius Arp in 1918. “There is no defect more glaring today than the inequality that exists between the educational facilities of the urban and rural communities. Rural education in the United States has been so far outstripped by the education of our urban centers, that from an educational standpoint, the country c…
Managing School Integration and White Flight
This article explores the policy conversation and efforts around school integration in Chicago during the 1960s. It analyzes how a conversation that originated in demands for equality for black students was transformed into one about keeping whites in the city and analyzes the consequences of this shift. Worried that integration might produce more segregation as whites fled, the school board responded to the advice of experts and pleas of some wh…
Courtrooms and Classrooms
In Courtrooms and Classrooms Scott M. Gelber explores the history of courts’ “academic deference”—their tendency to defer to the special expertise and autonomy of colleges and universities. Legal scholars and higher education advocates who assume academic deference was a long-standing tradition unseated by the tumult of the 1960s have gotten this history wrong, he argues, for the principle of academic deference has been more fluid and is of more …
Assessment Matters
This article explores the passage and failure of the 1973 Illinois Resource Equalizer formula which was designed to reduce disparities in school finance by breaking the connection between local wealth and school revenue. It argues that two sets of goals drove passage of the new law—equity and local property tax relief—and they came into conflict during implementation, with the latter winning out over the former. It argues that to understand both …
Shaped by the State
In the introduction to their edited volume, Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, and Mason B. Williams challenge scholars of modern American political history to revisit an overarching framework: the rise of the New Deal political order and its displacement by a conservative and/or neoliberal one. This framework of the rise and fall of the New Deal order, they contend, obscures continuities and persistent features of American politics that cut across chron…
The Education Trap
In The Education Trap, Groeger explores how the modern American education system and corporate economy mutually constituted one another from 1880 through the Great Depression. Using Boston as a case study, she analyzes how schooling expanded and became the primary pathway to work across the employment structure in this period, replacing a wide array of pathways and informal training, including apprenticeships, kinship, and ethnic networks. This t…
The Multiracial Promise
Journal Article The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America Get access The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America. By Gordon K Mantler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 354 pp. Cloth, $99.00. Paper, $29.95.) Tracy L Steffes Tracy L Steffes Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by thi…
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