Milton Gaither

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Milton Gaither is an historian of education and a professor at Messiah College. Some of his most notable works include American Educational History Revisited, on the historiography of American education, [1] and Homeschool: An American History. [2]

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Early life

Gaither received a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in 1990 in philosophy and literature, a Master of Arts in Religion from the Yale Divinity School in 1996 in church history and classical languages, and a Ph.D. in the history of American education from Indiana University Bloomington in 2000. [3]

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References

    • Gwaltney, Thomas M. (2005). "Learning About Education's Past: A Good Reference (Rev. of American Educational History Revisited by Milton Gaither)". Educational Forum. 69 (3): 317–318. doi:10.1080/00131720508984700. ISSN   0013-1725. S2CID   141667438.
    • Rury, John L (August 2004). "Book Reviews (Rev. of American Educational History Revisited by Milton Gaither)". Paedagogica Historica. 40 (4): 535–537. doi:10.1080/0030923042000250045. ISSN   0030-9230. S2CID   220343435.
    • Sherman, R. R. (September 2003). "Rev. of American Educational History Revisited by Milton Gaither". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries . 41 (1): 205. doi:10.5860/CHOICE.41-0448. ISSN   0009-4978.
    • Urban, Wayne J. (November 2007). "Reviewed Work: American Educational History Revisited: A Critique of Progress by Gaither Milton". History of Education Quarterly . 47 (4): 505–509. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2007.00113.x. ISSN   0018-2680. JSTOR   20462191. S2CID   145768399.
  1. Hardy, Kristopher. "Faculty directory". www.messiah.edu.