{"product_id":"report-cards-9781421447162","title":"Report Cards","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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, andby the 1930sthe increasing faith in an academic meritocracy. The use of report cards expanded with the growth of school bu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Civil War, Pandemic, and Report Cards\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Rousing the Attention of Parents\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Unity, Efficiency, and Freed People\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Overworn Mothers and Unfed Minds\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Eye of the Juvenile Court\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Mobility, Anxiety, and Merit\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Pursuit of Educational Dignity\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. Pulling Weeds and Foucault Fatigue\u003cbr\u003eAppendix I. Depiction of African American Parents in American Missionary, 1867–1881\u003cbr\u003eAppendix II. Ladies Home Journal and the Defense of Teachers\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eEssay on Sources\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408150143319,"sku":"9781421447162","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421447162.jpg?v=1730501773","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/report-cards-9781421447162","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}