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Title

Historical documents in American education / edited with introductions by Tony W. Johnson, Ronald F. Reed.

Publication

Boston : Allyn & Bacon, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Johnson, Tony W.
• Reed, Ronald F.

Description

xi, 243 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Education > United States > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Religion and Education: Its Roots and Continuing Legacy -- 1. The Biblical Commonwealth -- Massachusetts School Law of 1642 -- Violation by the Town of Topsfield of the Massachusetts School Law of 1642 (1668) -- Massachusetts School of Law of 1647 -- Connecticut School Law of 1650 -- John Eliot Requests a College for Massachusetts Bay (1636) -- Description of the Founding of Harvard College (1636) -- Selections from the Earliest Extant Copy of the New England Primer (1727) -- Michael Wigglesworth, "The Day of Doom" (1662) -- 2. Education as the Safeguard of Liberty -- Thomas Jefferson on His Own Education (c. 1760) -- Thomas Jefferson's Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" (1779) -- Thomas Jefferson's "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom" (1779) -- 3. Religion and the Schools: Conflicting Values -- The Amendments to the United States Constitution -- 4. Compulsion, Religion, and the Schools: The Free Exercise Clause -- Decision on the Constitutional Right to Operate a Religious School (1925) -- Decision on Mandatory Saluting of the Flag (1940) -- Decision on Mandatory Saluting of the Flag (1943) -- 5. Religion and the Schools: The Establishment Clause -- Decision on Released Time for Religious Instruction on School Premises (1948) -- Decision on Recitation of Prayers in Public Schools (1962) -- Decision on Bible Reading in the Public Schools (1963) -- pt. 2. Local versus Centralized Control of Schooling: Past and Present -- 6. The District School and Noah Webster's United States -- Description of a District School in Union County, Pennsylvania (1857) -- Noah Webster Urges Reform of Spelling (1789) -- Noah Webster on the Necessity for an American Language (1789) -- 7. Horace Mann and the Common School Crusade -- Senator Daniel Webster on the Schools as a "Wise and Liberal System of Police" (1820) -- Horace Mann's Thoughts on Being Chosen Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education (1837) -- Henry Barnard on the Needs of the Connecticut Common Schools (1839) -- 8. The "One Best System" and the Feminization of the Teaching Profession -- Horace Mann's Twelfth Annual Report (1848) -- The Superiority of Women as Teachers (1846) -- 9. U.S. Textbooks in the Nineteenth Century -- Good Pronunciation with Moral Lessons from the American Spelling Book (1831) -- Selection from McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader (1853) -- Lesson from McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader (1848) -- Selection from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader (1879) -- The Lesson of American History (1859) -- 10. Education Vouchers: Parental versus Societal Control Revisited -- On Education Vouchers (1971) -- pt. 3. Retreat from Commonality: Education of the "Child Races" -- 11. Booker T. Washington and Industrial Education -- From: "Up from Slavery:" The Story of Booker T. Washington -- Booker T. Washington on the Educational Outlook for Negroes in the South (1885) -- Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) -- W.E.B. Du Bois on Booker T. Washington (1903) -- "The Talented Tenth" (1903) -- 12. Plessy and Beyond -- The Separate but Equal Doctrine -- Decision on a Separate School of Law for Negroes in Texas (1950) -- Segregation of a Graduate Student in a State University Ruled Unconstitutional (1950) -- 13. The Education of the Immigrant: Common or Special Education -- A Russian Immigrant in the "Promised Land" (1912) -- Language -- A U.S. Bureau of Education Official on Education and the Chinese Migration (1875) -- 14. The Brown Decisions -- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) -- "With All Deliberate Speed" (1955) -- 15. Affirmative Action: The Next Step -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- President Lyndon Johnson's Call upon Congress to Pass Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965) -- Eliminate Racial Discrimation Root and Branch -- Court-Ordered Busing -- 16. Enter Bakke -- The Case of Reverse Discrimination -- Affirmative Action Denied' -- pt. 4. Contemporary Issues: Equity, Inclusion, and Abuse -- 17. Financial Equity: Local Control Revisited -- One Scholar/One Dollar -- 18. Mainstreaming and Inclusion: Out of Sight/Out of Mind -- The Inclusion Revolution -- 19. Testing: A History of Abuse -- The Psychological Method of Measuring Intelligence (1905) -- Lewis Terman on the Theory and Practice of Intelligence Testing (1916) -- "The Big Score."

ISBN

0801333148

LCCN

^^2001022716

OCLC

46640738

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library