{"id":83,"date":"2017-08-05T20:29:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2017-08-07T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:57:46","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/?page_id=83","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>History of the Washington, D.C. Public Schools<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Prof. Reese is currently composing a one-volume history of the Washington, D.C. public schools.\u00a0 Historically, public schools were by law and custom largely under state and local control, despite Congressional approval of notable educational programs during the Cold War and Great Society and, more recently, the unprecedented \u201cNo Child Left Behind Act.\u201d While the federal government has traditionally lacked much influence over schools, there is one notable exception. For more than two centuries, it claimed an outsized role in shaping and controlling educational policy in its own backyard: Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>This project analyzes how federal policies influenced academic achievement and the character of public schools. It explores how shifting perspective and policies on race, pedagogy, and curriculum shaped academic achievement and the social history of the public schools from their origins in the early 1800s to the eve of the twenty-first century. For well over a century before Michelle Rhee\u2019s turbulent tenure as chancellor (2007-2010), an array of politicians and activists had Washington D.C.\u2019s schools in their cross-hairs seeking to advance or hold back the tide of racial integration, promote or discredit public education, and ignore or lift student achievement.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Biography of Zerah Colburn<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Reese is penning a biography of early 19th century mathematical prodigy Zerah Colburn. \u00a0Born to a poor farming family in Cabot, Vermont in 1804, Colburn became perhaps the most famous of the period&#8217;s &#8220;calculating boys.&#8221; \u00a0He was exhibitioned throughout America, Britain, and the European continent and educated in London and Paris. \u00a0His wide travels and celebrity brought him into contact with some of the most prominent figures and significant events of early 19th century America and Europe. \u00a0By 1824, Colburn had returned from Europe and become an itinerant Methodist minister. \u00a0He spent the final years of his short life teaching at Norwich University and died of tuberculosis at the age of 34. Reese&#8217;s biography explores the themes of family, patronage, religion, and class while diving through the economic, political, and social upheaval of the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of the Washington, D.C. Public Schools Prof. Reese is currently composing a one-volume history of the Washington, D.C. public schools.\u00a0 Historically, public schools were by law and custom largely under state and local control, despite Congressional approval of notable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/?page_id=83\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/reese\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}