School Days: Further Reading
The following links and documents relate to the BackStory episode “School Days: A History of Public Education”, originally broadcast in September of 2009. You can listen to the entire episode here.
All Centuries
- Op-Ed by Jon Zimmerman in the San Francisco Chronicle.
- PBS Documentary School: The Story of American Public Education.
- Preview of the Historical Dictionary of American Education
18th Century
- Thomas Jefferson’s “bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge.”
- Article on the successes of the early Common School Movement.
- The Wren Building, America’s “oldest academic structure still in use”
19th Century
- School registers and images from post-Civil War freedmen’s schools
- Information and documents about freedmen’s teachers
- 19th century schoolbooks including digital copies of McGuffy Readers.
- Essays on education by John Dewey and Horace Mann
20th Century & Beyond
- The Commission on Excellence in Education’s 1983 report A Nation at Risk
- Transcript of President Eisenhower’s November 13, 1957 address, “Our Future Security”
- Interviews with students at Native American boarding schools
- NPR story of the 1950s school segregation protests led by Barbara Johns in Prince Edward County, VA, plus pictures and documents about race and education in Prince Edward County.
- The latest American Education Statistics
- Project Discovery, a 1965 documentary about the educational film movement
- An overview of desegregation in Virginia schools
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