History

for more detailed bibliography see History of Education in the United States: Bibliography
James D. Anderson, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 1988). Axtell, J. The school upon a hill: Education and society in colonial New England. Yale University Press. (1974). Maurice R. Berube; American School Reform: Progressive, Equity, and Excellence Movements, 1883-1993. 1994. online version Brint, S., & Karabel, J. The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 1900–1985. Oxford University Press. (1989). Button, H. Warren and Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr. History of Education and Culture in America. Prentice-Hall, 1983. 379 pp. Cremin, Lawrence A. The transformation of the school: Progressivism in American education, 1876–1957. (1961). Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783. (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876. (1980); American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876-1980 (1990); standard 3 vol detailed scholarly history Curti, M. E. The social ideas of American educators, with new chapter on the last twenty-five years. (1959). Dorn, Sherman. Creating the Dropout: An Institutional and Social History of School Failure. Praeger, 1996. 167 pp. Herbst, Juergen. The once and future school: Three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education. (1996). Herbst, Juergen. School Choice and School Governance: A Historical Study of the United States and Germany 2006. ISBN 1-4039-7302-4. Krug, Edward A. The shaping of the American high school, 1880–1920. (1964); The American high school, 1920–1940. (1972). standard 2 vol scholarly history Lucas, C. J. American higher education: A history. (1994). pp.; reprinted essays from History of Education Quarterly
Parkerson, Donald H. and Parkerson, Jo Ann. Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching. Routledge, 2001. 242 pp. Parkerson, Donald H. and Parkerson, Jo Ann. The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside. Edwin Mellen, 1998. 192 pp. Peterson, Paul E. The politics of school reform, 1870–1940. (1985). Ravitch, Diane. Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. Simon & Schuster, 2000. 555 pp. John L. Rury; Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schooling.'; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2002. online version Sanders, James W The education of an urban minority: Catholics in Chicago, 1833–1965. (1977). Solomon, Barbara M. In the company of educated women: A history of women and higher education in America. (1985). Theobald, Paul. Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918. Southern Illinois U. Pr., 1995. 246 pp. David B. Tyack. The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (1974), Tyack, David and Cuban, Larry. Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform. Harvard U. Pr., 1995. 184 pp. Tyack, David B., & Hansot, E. Managers of virtue: Public school leadership in America, 1820–1980. (1982). Veysey Lawrence R. The emergence of the American university. (1965).