For the whole chapter:

120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait
This publication that you can download from the National Center for Educational Statistics contains text and charts statistical trends of elementary, secondary, and higher education institutions.

Bibliography on the History of American Education
This site will point you toward more in-depth readings on your historical area of interest.

Blackwell History of Education Museum
This museum's web site contains a section on one-room schools, as well as interesting photos and descriptions of several historical technological developments, like slates and magic lanterns.

History of American Education Web Project
This site is arranged chronologically and contains information about six major periods of U.S. educational history, as well as links to other history of education sites.

The History of Education and Childhood
This site from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands provides biographies of leading educators and discussions of their ideas, the history of education in the U.S. and many different countries, and a wealth of other material on the history of education.



The Colonial Period

Colonial Schools
This is a collection of original writings from colonial Americans regarding schooling. It includes letters back and forth between a father and son at college, Benjamin Franklin's description of his days at school, and more.



The Early National Period

Monticello
This site from the museum at Thomas Jefferson's home offers information on Jefferson and links to many other resources.

Noah Webster House Museum
This museum site includes a brief biography of Webster, summaries of his views on politicians, and related links.

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
Here you can read online versions of many of Jefferson's writings.



The Movement Toward Public Schooling

19th Century Schoolbooks
You can examine digital editions of the famous McGuffey Readers, as well as thirty other old textbooks.

Giants of American Education: Horace Mann
A detailed article on Horace Mann, from the journal Technos.

Historical Reminiscences and Suggestions
You can read this book by Catherine Beecher at this site.

Lessons of a Century
At the turn of the century, Education Week published this series of articles looking at U.S. education from 1900 to 2000.



One-Room Schools

For links to more information on one-room schools, visit the Technology@School section for this chapter.



The Development of American Secondary Schools

ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology
This part of ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Center, provides access to research on all aspects of educational technology.

High School: The Shifting Mission
This special report collection of articles from Education Week about U.S. high schools today finds them still coping with some of the questions they have faced throughout their history.

International Society for Technology in Education
This organization has developed the National Educational Technology Standards for students.

Government's 50 Greatest Endeavors
This site from the Brookings Institution summarizes government efforts to improve elementary and secondary education during the past half-century.



The American College and University

National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Find out what has happened in the years since these colleges that got their financial start from government land grants.



Education in a Culturally Diverse Society

African American Education Photos
Visit the Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs to see what schools have been like for African American children over the years, and a collection of links and source material on the history of African American education in the U.S.

American Memory
You can find historical information in the several African American collections in the American Memory site from the Library of Congress.

Booker T. Washington National Monument
The web site for this national monument contains biographical and other information on Booker T. Washington.

Brown v. Board of Education Tutorial
A short tutorial relating the concerns of Thomas Jefferson to the Supreme Court's ruling against racially segregated schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Provides a close-up view of the workings of one boarding school that aimed, from 1979 to 1918, to "Americanize" Native American children.

Native American Education: Documents from the 19th Century
This is a comprehensive look at the attempts made in the late 1800s to "civilize" Native American children through education.

W.E.B. Dubois Virtual University
Includes a biography and other information on W.E.B. DuBois.



Recent Historical Trends

National Women's History Project
This site contains information about women's rights and education.

Title IX
Read the text of Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, a federal law designed to encourage gender equality in schools.