Product Description: What was school like when your grandparents were young? How were classrooms different in the 1970s? Did children use computers at school in the 1980s?Find all the answers and more in this book about how school life has changed since the 1950s.

Traces the rise in formal schooling, the extension of education to all children, and the changes in American schools from colonial times to the present, and describes social developments behind these differences.

A brief description of schools in colonial America, and what children learned there.

Describes what education and the schools were like in colonial times

Product Description: This book critically examines the case for and against the belief in personal survival of bodily death. It discusses several key philosophical questions: How could any discarnate individual be plausibly identified as someone who was formerly alive on earth? What precisely is the relationship between our minds and our bodies, particularly our brains? Can we conceive of an afterlife in a 'next world'?The book also examines classic arguments for the immortality of the soul, and focuses on types of recorded fact which furnish prima facie evidence of survival: near-death experiences, apparitions of the dead and dying, mediumistic communications, and ostensible reincarnation cases...read more

Discusses the one-room schools of a hundred years ago, the reading, writing, and arithmetic curricula, and the very abbreviated school year

Explains how tax-supported schools and free public education were related to a belief that mass education would increase the security of this country

Describes the life of school children in 1776--their dress, teachers, books, lessons, discipline, and pastimes.