http://www.uft.org/?fid=65&tf=147
The United Federation of Teachers website chronicles the crisis at Ocean Hill-Brownsville
in an article entitled, " Class Struggles: The UFT Story."
www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/timeline.html
The documentary series "Only a Teacher" explores the diverse faces and roles
of the American teacher from 1830s to the present. This site includes a timeline
of major events in teaching.
http://wall.aa.uic.edu:62730/artifact/HullHouse.asp
The website for the Jane Addams Hull House museum.
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.