The School in the United States A Documentary History

Organised Chronologically:

1. The School in Colonial America, 1620-1770 2. The American Revolution and Schools for the New Republic, 1770-1820 3. The Common School Movement, 1820-1860 4. Schooling Moves West, 1835-1860 5. Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Schools of the South, 1820-1937 6. The Emergence of the High School, 1821-1959 7. Growth and Diversity in Schools and Students, 1880-1960 8. The Progressive Era, 1890-1950 9. Schools in the Cold War Era, 1950-1970 10. Civil Rights, Integration, and School Reform, 1954-1980 11.Rights, Opportunities and Limits in American Education, 1965-1980 12.Reform Efforts of the 1980s and 1990s and the New Century, 1980-2005 13.Curriculum, Technology, and New Tensions, 2005-2018

Organised Thematically:

How Had the Job of Teaching Changed Over Time and How Have Teachers Helped Change It? How is Technology Changing Schools? For Better? For Worse? Who Pays for Schools? Who Decides What to Do with the Money? Are Schools Fair? What Should Fairness in Schooling Look Like? A Broadening Quest for Rights and Opportunities in American Education. School Violence, School Choice, Teacher Unions, Liberal and Conservative Views of Fairness. What Gets Taught? What Should Get Taught? Hidden and Overt Curriculum? What Is the Purpose of Public Schools? How Has the Purpose Changed Over Time?