Rockefeller Archive Center

Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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Philanthropic Funding and Field Agents in the Development of Teacher Education Institutions

January 1, 2016

The Rockefeller-founded and supported General Education Board (GEB) was the largest non-denominational, private source of funding for public schools in the United States in the early twentieth century. It was particularly unique in refusing to deny funds to schools for any racial or gender group, and so it became a major source of funding to develop and maintain schools for marginalized populations. In particular, my project investigates the support that the GEB offered to teacher education programs as part of this mission, and evaluates the relative importance of this philanthropic funding to other aspects of the process of developing and institutionalizing teacher education programs.

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