Product Description: The School in the United States collects the essential primary documents of the history of education in the United States, from Colonial America to present-day reform efforts. Expertly chosen by historian and education scholar James Fraser, these documents incorporate a wide range of sources, from first-person accounts to textbook excerpts and presidential speeches...read more

Presents a history of education in the United States, from hornbooks and primers to textbooks and computers. (view table of contents)

Product Description: What constitutes a "good" and an "effective" school? How have judgements of school effectiveness changed, and why? This book examines these questions, focusing on the development from a research-based movement in Britain, the USA and elsewhere in the 1970s...read more