Steven Schlossman

About

Steven Schlossman is a social and policy historian and a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2014, he has served as the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies and also directs the Ethics, History, and Public Policy program. His academic specialization includes topics in 19th and 20th century U.S. history, such as education, childhood, parenting, juvenile and criminal justice, corrections, the politics of military recruitment, and the history of sports. His current teaching focuses on a capstone research seminar for undergraduates in Social & Political History, along with electives in the history of sports, education, juvenile justice, and classical music.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Psychology
• Political science
• Criminology
• Pedagogy

Selected publications

• The "New Look": The Ford Foundation and the Revolution in Business Education.

  1998-01-01 · 62 citations

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• A Nation at Rest: The American Way of Homework

  Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis · 2003-09-01 · 59 citations

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  We use several national surveys to provide a 50-year perspective on time spent on homework. The great majority of American children at all grade levels now spend less than one hour studying on a typical day—an amount that has not changed substantially in at least 20 years. Moreover, high school students in the late 1940s and early 1950s studied no more than their counterparts did in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Changes in educational opinion on homework over the last half century have had little…

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• Villain or Savior? The American Discourse on Homework, 1850-2003

  Theory Into Practice · 2004-08-01 · 56 citations

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  This article examines homework's place in American K-12 schooling over the last century and draws three main conclusions. First, homework has always aroused strong passions pro and con. Second, despite prominent press reports to the contrary in the early 20th century and again today, the best evidence suggests that most parents have consistently supported homework during the last 100 years. Third, homework practice is slow to change but is not unmovable, as evidenced by increases in high school…

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• The Lost Cause of Homework Reform

  American Journal of Education · 2000-11-01 · 51 citations

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• Foxholes and Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces

  The American Historical Review · 1999-10-01 · 35 citations

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  The desegregation of the American armed forces-one of the most sweeping changes in the military's history-is widely remembered as a straightforward, relatively effortless process and a shining example of the effectiveness of America's military command. Foxholes and Color Lines challenges this view, revealing both the intense political conflict at the time and the strenuous opposition to racial integration within all branches of the armed forces.

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Frequent coauthors

• Michael W. Sedlak

  12 shared

• Brian Gill

  Mathematica Policy Research

  11 shared

• Sherie Mershon

  11 shared

• Gerald P. Wittman

  4 shared

• Gail L. Zellman

  3 shared

• Raynard Kington

  United States National Library of Medicine

  2 shared

• Jennifer Hawes-Dawson

  RAND Corporation

  2 shared

• Andrew Cornell

  2 shared

Labs

• Department of History - Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Carnegie Mellon UniversityPI

Education

• Ph.D.

  Columbia University

  1976

Awards & honors

• Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Distinguished Teaching and Ed…

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