TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharon Gay Pierson
PY  - 2013
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1085-0678
SN  - 9781453911297
TI  - Laboratory of Learning
T2  - HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1129-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051393
N2  - During the progressive education movement, laboratory high schools evolved from model schools that were part of the core teacher training curriculum at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). These laboratory schools were at the vanguard of the accreditation battle, participated in national curriculum studies, and boasted high graduation and college entrance rates. Led by well-educated, reform-minded African Americans who molded their own approaches to teaching and curriculum and were grounded in sound progressive educational theory, these HBCU lab high schools represented privileged educational experiences. Yet, this collective effort of high-achieving Black lab schools has been overlooked by historians. Through an examination of Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School (1920–1960), Laboratory of Learning illuminates the strategies, challenges, and successes of providing secondary education to Southern Black citizens during the Jim Crow era and provides evidence that HBCU laboratory schools and Lab High should be added to our histories as an example of distinctive, progressive schooling.
KW  - laboratory high schools, core teacher training, education movement, graduation, progressive schooling
LA  - English
ER  -