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Zoë Burkholder is a professor of educational foundations at Montclair State University, where she is director of the MSU Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Project. She is an historian of education whose research examines the history of school integration, racial equality, and antiracist education in the United States.

Her scholarly articles and commentaries can be found in popular and academic journals including Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Social History, History of Education Quarterly, Teachers College Record, Education Week, and Teaching for Justice.

She lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband, two kids, and two dogs.

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	The Harlem Renaissance: An Interactive History Adventure by Allison Lassieur, Zoë Burkholder (Goodreads Author) (Consultant Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education (History and Philosophy of Education Series) by Lawrence Blum, Zoë Burkholder (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Which is better: school integration or separate, Black-controlled schools?

Originally published August 21, 2021 on the Oxford University Press Blog, https://blog.oup.com/2021/08/which-is...

Which is better: school integration or separate, Black-controlled schools?

This summer journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones shocked Americans when she decided to decline tenure at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill in favor of an endowed chair at historically Black Howard Uni Read more of this blog post »

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