About R.D. Gidney R.D. Gidney is Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario. Books by R.D. Gidney How Schools Worked Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940 by (author) R.D. Gidney & W.P.J. Millar From Hope to Harris The Reshaping of Ontario's Schools by (author) R.D. Gidney Inventing Secondary Education The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario by (author) R.D. Gidney & Millar