The definitive history of the report card. Report cards represent
more than just an account of academic standing and attendance. The
report card also serves as a tool of control and as a microcosm for
the shifting power dynamics among teachers, parents, school
administrators, and students. In Report Cards: A Cultural History,
Wade H. Morris tells the story of American education by examining
the history of this unique element of student life. In the nearly
two hundred-year evolution of the report card, this relic of
academic bookkeeping reflected broader trends in the United States:
the republican zealotry and religious fervor of the antebellum
period, the failed promises of postwar Reconstruction for the
formerly enslaved, the changing gender roles in newly urbanized
cities, the overreach of the Progressive child-saving movement in
the early twentieth century, and—by the 1930s—the increasing
faith in an academic meritocracy. The use of report cards expanded
with the growth of school bureaucracies, becoming a tool through
which administrators could surveil both student activity and
teachers. And by the late twentieth century, even the most radical
critics of numerical reporting of children have had to compromise
their ideals. Morris traces the evolution of how teachers,
students, parents, and administrators have historically responded
to report cards. From a western New York classroom teacher in the
1830s and a Georgia student in the 1870s who was born enslaved, to
a Colorado student incarcerated in the early 1900s and the son of
Russian-Jewish immigrants applying to college in the 1930s, Report
Cards describes how generations of people have struggled to
maintain dignity within a system that reduces children to numbers
on slips of paper.
General
| Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Wade H. Morris
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4214-4716-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-4214-4716-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781421447162 |
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