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Nancy Beadie Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies 303D Miller, Box 353600 College of Education, University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3600 nbeadie@u.washington.edu

Education Publications Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Beadie is a historian and professor of education in the Area of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington.  Her area of interest is historical relationships between education, economy and culture in the United States and the role of education in the formation of modern nation states internationally.   Dr. Beadie’s new book, Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2010)argues that schools were a driving force in the formation of social, political and financial capital during the market revolution and capitalist transition of the early republic era in the United States. In a recent article in Paedagogica Historica (2010) she considers the U.S. case in comparative international perspective.  She has also written extensively on the history of higher schooling, and on the history of women in education. Her work is published in History of Education Quarterly, Social Science History, American Journal of Education, Educational Policy, Paedagogica Historica (International), Journal of American Ethnic History, Teachers College Record, Journal of American History, and History of Education (British).

Other published work includes Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925 (New York: Routledge Press, 2002), co-edited with Kim Tolley, and "Moral Errors and Strategic Mistakes: Lessons from the History of Student Accountability," in Kenneth A. Sirotnik, ed. Holding Accountability Accountable: Toward Responsible Concepts and Practices (New York: Teachers College Press, 2003). 

Dr. Beadie teaches courses on the history of education and education reform in the United States, education as the transfer of culture, historical research methods in education, and the social history of gender in education.  She is Associate Editor of History of Education Quarterly and recent past President of the History of Education Society (U.S.).  She also recently complete a term as Vice-President, Division F (History and Historiography), of the American Educational Research Association.

Education

Ph.D. 1989 Syracuse University
M.S. 1987 Syracuse University
B.A. 1980 Wellesley College

Publications

Books

Beadie, N. (2010). Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Beadie, N. and Tolley, K., eds. (2002).  Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925.  New York: Routledge Press.

Recent Articles

Beadie, N. (2011).  “Probing the Deep:  Theory and History,” History of Education Quarterly 51, forthcoming.

Beadie, N. (2010).  “Education, Social Capital, and State Formation in Comparative Historical Perspective: Preliminary Investigations,”  Paedagogica Historica 46, 1/2(February-April): 15-32.

Beadie, N. (2008c).  "Education and the Creation of Capital, or What I have Learned by Following the Money," History of Education Quarterly 48:1 (Feb.): 1-29.

Beadie, N.  (2008a).  “Toward  a History of Education Markets in the United States: An Introduction,” Social Science History 32 (1): 47-73.

Beadie, N. (2008b). Tuition-Funding in Common Schools: Education Markets and Market Regulation in Nineteenth-Century New York, 1815-1850. Social Science History 32 (1), 107-33.

Tolley, K. and Beadie, N. (2006).  "Socio-Economic Incentives to Teach in New York and North Carolina:  Toward a More Complex Model of Teacher Labor Markets, 1800-1850," History of Education Quarterly 46: 1 (Feb.): 36-72.

Beadie, N. (2004). Moral Errors and Strategic Mistakes: Lessons from the History of Student Accountability. In Kenneth A. Sirotnik, ed., Holding Accountability Accountable: Toward Responsible Concepts and Practices. (New York: Teachers College Press).

Beadie, N. (2002). Internal Improvement: The Structure and Culture of Academy Expansion in New York State in the Antebellum Era, 1820-1860. In N. Beadie and K. Tolley, eds. Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925 (New York: Routledge Press):89-116.

Beadie, N. and Tolley, K. (2002). Legacies of the Academy. In N. Beadie and K. Tolley, eds., Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925 (New York: Routledge Press): 331-352.

Beadie, N. (2001). Academy Students in the Mid-19th Century: Social Geography, Demography, and the Culture of Academy Attendance. History of Education Quarterly 41, 2 (Summer), 252-263.

Beadie, N. (2000). The Limits of Standardization and the Importance of Constituencies: Historical Tensions in the Relationship between State Authority and Local Control. In N. Theobald and B. Malen, eds. Balancing Local Control and State Responsibility for K-12 Education: 2000 Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, for the American Education Finance Association, 2000, pp. 47-91.

Beadie, N. (1999). Female Students and Denominational Affiliation: Sources of Success Among Nineteenth Century Academies. American Journal of Education 107 (2), 75-115.