The School in the United States: A Documentary History

by Fraser, James W.

• ISBN13: 9780072324488
• ISBN10: 0072324481
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-29
• Publisher: MCGRAW HILL PROFESSIONAL

Summary

Students come alive when dealing with primary sources. Yet no current History of Education text supplies primary source documents. Fraser's unique text is a documentary history of education in the United States and can save the instructor from doing a good deal of photocopying. It consists of primary source documents which illustrate and map the establishment and evolution of education in America. For example, the text includes documents such as Beecher's "Essay on the Education of Female Teachers," "A Nation At Risk: Report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education," and selections from Dewey's School and Society and Holt's How Children Fail. Introductions and explanations frame the primary sources to help students understand the background and context of the documents. The book can be used as a main or a supplemental text at either the undergraduate or graduate level.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The School in Colonial America, 1620-1770

Introduction

Virginia Council [London], Instructions to Governor of Virginia, 1636

Virginia Statues on the Education of Indian children held hostage, 1656

South Carolina Statue on Conversion of Slaves to Christianity, 1711

Missionary Report on Baptism of Slaves

Virginia’s Cure, or An Advisive Narrative Concerning Virginia, 1662

Sir William Berkeley to the Lords’ Commissioners on Foreign Plantations, 1671

Massachusetts' Old Deluder Satan Law, 1647

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1714-1718

The New England Primer, 1727

Chapter 2. The American Revolution and Schools for the New Republic, 1770-1820

Thomas Jefferson, Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, 1779

Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1783

Benjamin Rush, Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic, 1786

Benjamin Rush, Thoughts Upon Female Education, 1787

Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1790

U.S. Congress, The Northwest Ordinance, 1787

U.S. Congress, Civilization Fund Act, 1819

Chapter 3. The Common School Movement, 1820-1860

Introduction

Horace Mann, Tenth and Twelfth Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1846 and 1848

Catharine E. Beecher, An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers, 1835

The Common School Journal, Debate Over Plan to Abolish the Board of Education, 1840

Petition of the Catholics of New York for a Portion of the Common School Fund, 1840

The Desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, 1846-1855

Chapter 4: Schooling Moves West, 1835-1860

Introduction

Selections from McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader, 1836

Calvin E. Stowe, Report on Elementary Public Instruction in Europe, 1836

Board of National Public Education, Correspondence, 1849-1850

Mary Augusta Roper, Letter from Mill Point, Michigan, 1852-1854

The Speech of Red Jacket, the Seneca Chief, to a Missionary, circa 1830

Chapter 5: Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Schools of the South, 1820-1903

Introduction

Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, 1845

The New England Freedmen's Aid Society--Official Records, 1862-1872

The New England Freedmen's Aid Society--Correspondence, 1865-1874

Charlotte Forten, The Journal of Charlotte Forten, 1862

Booker T. Washington, The Future of the American Negro, 1899

W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

Chapter 6: Growth and Diversity in Schools and Students, 1880-1960

Introduction

Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1884

Mary Antin, The Promised Land, 1912

Lewis Meriam, The Problem of Indian Administration, 1928

The Asian Experience in California, 1919-1920

Beatrice Griffith, American Me, 1948

Teaching Children of Puerto Rican Background in New York City Schools, 1954

Chapter 7: The Progressive Era, 1890-1950

James Jackson Storrow, Son of New England, 1932

Margaret Haley, Why Teachers Should Organize, 1904

Ella Flagg Young, Isolation in the School, 1901

Grace C. Strachan, Equal Pay for Equal Work, 1910

Cora Bigelow, World Democracy and School Democracy, 1918

John Dewey, The School and Society, 1899

Lewis M. Terman, National Intelligence Tests, 1919

George Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order? 1932

The Social Frontier, 1934

Chapter 8: Schools in the Cold War Era, 1950-1970

Introduction

National Defense Education Act, 1958

The Scott, Foresman Readers, 1955

H.G. Rickover, Education for All Children: What We Can Learn from England, 1962

Herbert Kohl, Thirty-Six Children, 1967

John Holt, How Children Fail, 1964

Supreme Court of the United States, Engel v. Vitale, 1962

Chapter 9: Civil Rights, Integration, and School Reform, 1954-1980

Introduction

Septima Clark, Ready From Within, 1900

Supreme Court of the United States, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954

Kenneth B. Clark, How Children Learn About Race, 1950

School Desegregation in the South: Little Rock, 1957

School Desegregation in the North: Boston, 1965

Chapter 10: Rights and Opportunities in American Education, 1965-1980

Introduction

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Great Society, 1965

Supreme Court of the United States, Tinker, et al. v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969

Title IX, The Education Amendments of 1972

Public Law 94-142, Education for All Handicapped Children Act, 1975

Viva La Raza! Community Control in Chicago, 1974

Dillon Platero, The Rough Rock Demonstration School, Navajo Nation, 1970

Chapter 11: Reform Efforts of the 1980s and 1990s

Introduction

National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation At Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, 1983

Ann Bastian, et al., Choosing Equality: The Case for Democratic Schooling, 1985

Sonia Nieto, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, 1992

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Disuniting of America, 1991

David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, The Manufactured Crisis, 1995

Herbert Kohl, The Discipline of Hope, 1998

Bibliography: For Further Reading

Sources and Credits