{"id":21810,"date":"2017-11-27T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.journals.cambridge.org\/?p=21810"},"modified":"2018-10-05T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:31:18","slug":"the-historical-significance-of-the-1966-coleman-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2017\/11\/27\/the-historical-significance-of-the-1966-coleman-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The historical significance of the 1966 Coleman Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This blog accompanies the Policy Forum on the 1966 Coleman Report<\/a> published in History of Education Quarterly<\/em><\/a>.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For this History of Education Quarterly<\/em> Policy Forum, we look at the historical significance of the 1966 Coleman Report from several different perspectives. The four main essays published here originated as presentations for a session on \u201cLegacies of the Coleman Report in US Thought and Culture\u201d at the History of Education Society annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, in November 2016. Presenters for that session\u2014 Zo\u00eb Burkholder, Victoria Cain, Leah Gordon, and Ethan Hutt\u2014went on to participate in an HES-sponsored session entitled \u201cCurrents in Egalitarian Thought in the 1960s and 1970s: The Coleman Report in American Politics, Media, and Social Science\u201d at the Organization of American Historians meeting in New Orleans in April 2017. Thinking that their reflections on the reception and influence of the Coleman Report in different contexts would be of broad interest to HEQ readers, we asked members of the panel to comment on each other’s papers and revise them for this Forum. We then invited Harvey Kantor of the University of Utah and Robert Lowe of Marquette University to write an introduction summarizing the origins and findings of the Coleman Report, along with their own assessment of what the presenters\u2019 essays teach us about its long-term significance. What follows are Kantor and Lowe’s Introduction, \u201cWhat Difference Did the Coleman Report Make?<\/a>,\u201d together with substantive essays by Zo\u00eb Burkholder<\/a> of Montclair State University, Victoria Cain<\/a> of Northeastern University, Leah Gordon<\/a> of Amherst College, and Ethan Hutt<\/a> of the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n

Articles in the Forum listed below will be freely available until 15th January 2018:<\/p>\n