Richard J. Altenbaugh is professor emeritus at Slippery Rock University, an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, and a visiting fellow at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge.

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Academic Work & Affiliations

• Professor Emeritus, Department of Secondary Education/Foundations of Education, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
• Adjunct Faculty Member, University of Pittsburgh
• Visiting Fellow, St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge

Selected Publications

The American People and Their Education: A Social History. Prentice Hall, 2002.

Historical Dictionary of American Education, edited by Richard J. Altenbaugh. Greenwood Press, 1999.

Caring for Kids: A Critical Study of Urban School Leavers, edited by Richard J. Altenbaugh, David E. Engle, and Don T. Martin. Routledge, 1995.

The Teachers Voice: A Social History of Teaching in Twentieth Century America, edited by Richard J. Altenbaugh. The Falmer Press, Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1992.

Education for Struggle: The American Labor Colleges of the 1920s and 1930s. Temple University Press, 1990.