Jack Schneider

Assistant Professor

Contact Information:

Office: Stein 437
Email: jschneid@holycross.edu
Phone: 508-793-3731
Twitter:  Edu_Historian

Education:

B.A., Haverford College

M.A., Stanford University

Ph.D., Stanford University

Course Offerings:
Education 169 - Schooling in the United States
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Education 273 - Urban Education
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Education 375 - Historical Perspectives on American Education
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Education 399 - Modern School Reform
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Books:

Jack Schneider, Excellence For All: How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America's Public Schools (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2011)

Journal Articles:

Jack Schneider, "Remembrance of Things Past: A History of the Socratic Method in the United States," Curriculum Inquiry (forthcoming)

Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt, "Making the Grade: A History of the A-F Marking Scheme," Journal of Curriculum Studies (forthcoming)

Sivan Zakai and Jack Schneider, "'Now Where Do We Go from Here?': Separateness, Integration, and Pluralism in Philadelphia," History of Education Quarterly (forthcoming)

Ethan L. Hutt and Jack Schneider, “The Rhetoric of Reform,” Teachers College Record, Commentary (December 2012)

Jack Schneider, "Memory Test: A History of the U.S. Citizenship Test," Teachers College Record (June 2010)

Jack Schneider, "Privilege, Equity, and the Advanced Placement Program: Tug of War," Journal of Curriculum Studies (December 2009)

Jack Schneider, "Escape from L.A.: White Flight from Los Angeles and Its Schools, 1960-1980," Journal of Urban History (September 2008)
*Finalist for Urban History Association's "Best Article Award"

Other Publications:

Jack Schneider and Michael Fuerstein, "Thinking Civically," Social Education (forthcoming)

Jack Schneider, "Rebranding Public Schools as New Charter Schools," Education Week (February 26, 2013)

Jack Schneider, "Socrates and the Madness of Method," Phi Delta Kappan (September 2012)

Jack Schneider, "The High Stakes of Teacher Evaluation," Education Week (June 5, 2012)

Jack Schneider, "Tech For All," Education Week (October 5, 2011)

Jack Schneider, "Columbus Day: 1892, Not 1492" in Reading Like a Historian: A Workbook for Middle and High School Teachers (New York: Teachers College Press, 2011)

Jack Schneider, "To Blink or Not to Blink: The Cuban Missile Crisis" in Reading Like a Historian: A Workbook for Middle and High School Teachers (New York: Teachers College Press, 2011)

Daisy Martin, Saul Maldonado, Jack Schneider, and Mark Smith, "A Report on the State of U.S. History Education: State Policies and National Programs," National History Education Clearinghouse (September 2011)

Jack Schneider, "What Is Excellence For All?" Education Week (January 27, 2010)

Daisy Martin, Jack Schneider, Bradley Fogo, and Nikole Richardson "A Report on the State of U.S. History Education: State Policies and National Programs," National History Education Clearinghouse (January 2010)

Sam Wineburg and Jack Schneider, "Was Bloom's Taxonomy Pointed in the Wrong Direction?" Phi Delta Kappan (December-January 2009)

Sam Wineburg and Jack Schneider, "Inverting Bloom's Taxonomy," Education Week (October 7, 2009)

Op-eds:

Jack Schneider, "Long history of U.S. shootings means Obama is right, NRA is wrong,"  Christian Science Monitor (January 16, 2013)

Jack Schneider, "Chicago Teachers Will Lose Unless They Revise Strategy," USA Today (September 13, 2012)

Jack Schneider, "No Magic Solution for Schools," Minneapolis Star Tribune (February 1, 2012)

Jack Schneider, "'Gut Instincts': Are We Really Better off Not Thinking?" Los Angeles Times (November 13, 2011)

Jack Schneider, "History Bends in the Hands of Ideologues," Minneapolis Star Tribune (June 9, 2011)

Jack Schneider, "Let's Tackle Education Funding Once and For All," USA Today (April 9, 2009)

Jack Schneider, "How to Shape New U.S. Citizens," Christian Science Monitor (August 4, 2008)

Jack Schneider, "Segregation Forever: Why Integration Never Came to the LAUSD," Los Angeles Daily News (June 21, 2008)

Jack Schneider, "Schools' Unrest Over the AP Test," Christian Science Monitor (May 28, 2008)

Jack Schneider, "Advanced Placement, Academic Segregation," Oakland Tribune (June 2, 2007)

Presentations:

Jack Schneider and Sivan Zakai, "A Rigorous Dialectic: Writing and Thinking in History" (April 2013)

Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt, "Making the Grade: A History of Marking in American Education," Paper for the Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society (November 2012)

Jack Schneider "What Reformers Talk about When They Talk about Fixing Schools," Haverford College Young Academic Alumni Speaker Series (April 2012)

Jack Schneider, "Why Ideas Persist: the Case of Bloom's Taxonomy," Paper for the Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society (November 2011)

Jack Schneider, "Theory of Many Uses: the History of Multiple Intelligences," Paper for International History of Education Colloquium, Stanford University (September 2010)

Jack Schneider, "Excellence for All: Recent American School Reform," Paper for International History of Education Colloquium, Universität Bern (September 2009)

Jack Schneider, "100 Questions: A History of the U.S. Citizenship Examination," Paper for the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (April 2009)

Jack Schneider, "Elite Education for All American Youth: Late 20^th Century School Reform," Paper for "Politics, Activism and the History of America's Public Schools," University of Pennsylvania (April 2008)

Book Reviews:

Jack Schneider, Review of School, Society, and State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, History of Education Quarterly (November 2012)

Jack Schneider, Review of Shaping Education Policy: Power and Process, Teachers College Record (November 2011)

Jack Schneider, Review of Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, History of Education Quarterly (November 2011)

Jack Schneider, Review of Public Engagement for Public Education: Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools, Teachers College Record (March 2011)

Jack Schneider, Review of Making Failure Pay: For-Profit Tutoring, High-Stakes Testing, and Public Schools, Teachers College Record (September 2010)

Jack Schneider, Review of Bringing School Reform to Scale: Five Award-Winning Urban Districts, Teachers College Record (July 2010)

Jack Schneider, Review of AP: A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program, Teachers College Record (May 2010)