The School in the United States: A Documentary History

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The School in the United States collects a wide range of essential primary documents of the history of education in the United States, from colonial America to present-day political upheaval. Judiciously assembled by two scholars expert in education history, policy, and economics, this substantively revised new edition incorporates many different sources, from first-person accounts to textbook... Read more

The School in the United States collects a wide range of essential primary documents of the history of education in the United States, from colonial America to present-day political upheaval. Judiciously assembled by two scholars expert in education history, policy, and economics, this substantively revised new edition incorporates many different sources, from first-person accounts to textbook excerpts and presidential speeches. The history of American education is also a history of national debates and decisions about schooling, and Drs. Fraser and Brewer place the prominent voices of these debates in conversation through carefully curated selections that span famous thinkers like Thomas Jefferson and W. E. B. DuBois as well as ordinary classroom teachers.

Organized by era, each chapter begins with a brief introduction intended to spark student interest and concludes with a detailed bibliography offering opportunities for further research. The book now features an alternative structure that allows readers to engage with the material by topic in addition to, or instead of, chronological order. Other noteworthy updates to this fifth edition include:

• Numerous new documents accompanied by guidance that clearly points students to the most important ideas within.

• A refocused attention on twenty-first-century documents and the experiences of contemporary teachers.

• Increased coverage of diversity issues (race, gender, LGBTQ+ history, and more) and how they’ve been historically addressed in American education.

• An extensively refreshed final two chapters that confront school shootings, debates about charter schools, the impact of COVID-19 on schools, controversial technologies like Artificial Intelligence, and the purposes of public education in the United States.

Comprehensive enough to be read as a main text but selective enough to supplement another, The School in the United States makes accessible key readings in the history of American education in a format that encourages students to make their own evaluations as they engage with major historical debates.

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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 Turn of the Century, 1980s and 1990s and the New Century, 2000—2010 13.Teachers, Technology, and New Tensions, 2010—2025

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Biography

James W. Fraser is Professor Emeritus of History and Education in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, USA. Dr. Fraser was the 2013–2014 President of the History of Education Society.

Dominic J. Brewer is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Education, Economics, and Policy in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, USA. Dr. Brewer is a Past President of the Association for Education Finance and Policy as well as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

Critics' Reviews

“This is the best collection of primary documents on the history of education available.”

— Paul J. Ramsey, Professor of Teacher Education, Eastern Michigan University

“This is my favorite book that I use with my students. It allows me a lot of creativity in planning the course curriculum and I like that students can learn from the primary sources without me having to search for all of the documents.”

—Josephine Tabet Sarvis, PhD, Dominican University

“James Fraser provides an excellent comprehensive collection of primary sources that provide the student with an opportunity for reflecting, constructing meaning, and establishing relationships with the past through the ideas and experiences of those who lived it and helped form American education as we know it.”

—Sam F. Stack Jr., Professor, Social and Cultural Foundations, West Virginia University

“Fraser has most certainly achieved his goal of providing students ‘with a way to immerse themselves in some of the major debates that have consumed educators over the decades.’ His book enables students to become historians.”

—Christine A. Ogren, Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, the University of Iowa

The School in the United States A Documentary History

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