InstructorsStudentsReviewersAuthorsBooksellers Contact Us
image
  DisciplineHome
 TextbookHome
 ResourceHome
Bookstore
Textbook Site for:
Teaching on Principle and Promise:
The Foundations of Education

Mary-Lou Breitborde, Salem State College
Louise Swiniarski, Salem State College
Student In-Class Activities
Chapter 7: History Websites to Explore

http://my.voyager.net/~jayjo/primer.htm
Contains the entire text of The New England Primer of 1777

http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/Background/abt_irving/abt_irving.html
Historic Hudson Valley Educators' Sketchbook Website, contains text of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and lesson plans.

http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/horace.html
Website of the Public Television series "Only a Teacher," which includes information on historic American educators and video-clips from the series.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/index.html
Website accompanying the Public Broadcasting Series "School," containing a wealth of information about important figures in American educational history, curriculum and classroom materials through the years, and the historical roots of contemporary issues such as school choice and bilingual education.

http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/MaryBethune/index.cfm
Information on Mary McLeod Bethune, transcripts of interviews, photographs, and lesson plans.

http://www.cedu.niu.edu/blackwell/
Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, houses the Blackwell Museum of Educational History, which specializes in the history of one-room schoolhouses in the Midwest. The site offers information, historical photographs, schoolhouse artifacts and links to other history of education and country schoolhouse sites.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/58iron/58iron.htm
A site listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Iron Hill School was established in 1962 by the wealthy DuPont family of Delaware for rural African American children in the northern part of the state. This website offers readings, pictures, lesson plans and an interesting collection of oral histories contributed by graduates of the school.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/antin/land/land.html
The University of Pennsylvania's "Celebration of Women Writers" website, contains the full text of Mary Antin's The Promised Land, recounting her childhood in Poland and her immigration to America, including her experiences in the Chelsea, Massachusetts, public schools

http://www.uvm.edu/~dewey/
The John Dewey Project of the University of Vermont publishes articles and monographs on Dewey and progressive education, and materials for teachers who want to apply the principles of progressive education to their teaching practice.




BORDER=0
Site Map | Partners | Press Releases | Company Home | Contact Us
Copyright Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.
Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Statement, and Trademark Information
BORDER="0"