Library
This collection brings together sources spanning several centuries—most cited by Gatto, others I discovered while pursuing my own investigations. The materials range from direct commentary on education to broader social and historical works that help form a picture of how we got to now. Happy browsing, and stay lucky!
Address to the German Nation
"The Dumbbell Curve"
1984
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to Present, Vol III
A Sociological Philosophy of Education
A Study of History
Abridgement by D. C. Somerwell
A Year in Europe
Adolescence
Adult Literacy in America
A First Look at the Findings of the National Adult Literacy Survey
Altering Destinies
America Revised
America's New Economic Order
An Experiment in Education, Made at the Male Asylum of Madras
Suggesting a System by which a School Or Family May Teach Itself Under the Superintendance of the Master Or Parent
And It Came To Pass
Angela's Ashes
Are Schools Failing?
Army Training of Illiterates in World War II
Asylums
Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Autonomous Technology
Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought
Ben-Hur
A Tale of the Christ
Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871
Bureaucracy, Aristocracy, and Autocracy: The Prussian Experience, 1660-1815
By the Sweat of They Brow
Work in the Western World
Can Dyslexia Be Artificially Induced In Schools?
Yes, Says Researcher Edward Miller
Can Your Child Really Read?
Why Our High Schools Are In Collapse
Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education for April 1872
Classroom Management
Its Principle and Technique
Competition
Compulsory School Attendance Laws and Their Administration
Computers may soon make 'the three Rs' ancient history
Corporations Still Give, but Also Get
Crystallizing Public Opinion
Dare the School Build a New Social Order?
David Samuel Snedden
The Ideology of Social Efficiency
Debate: A Second American Century
Designing Education for the Future
Rationale, Procedures and Appraisal
Different Drummers
How Teachers of Teachers View Public Education
Economic and Industrial Progress of the Century
Economy of Time in Education
Education and Jobs
The Great Training Robbery
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1934
Education and the Cult of Efficiency
A Study of the Social Forces That Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools
Education and the Social Crisis
A Proposed Program
Education in the Forming of American Society
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Emile, or On Education
Enlightenment, Reform, Reaction: The Schooling Revolution in Prussia
Eugenics: With Special Reference to Intellect and Character
Fat and Mean
the corporate squeeze of working Americans and the myth of managerial "downsizing"
Feasibility Study: Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program
Fitness of American Youth for Military Service
Forty Years of American Life
Frederick W. Taylor
The Father Of Scientific Management, Myth & Reality
From Dr. Mather to Dr. Seuss: 200 years of American Books for Children
From Kidd to Dewey: the origin and meaning of ‘social efficiency’
Grand Opening in Texas: The First Edison School
Homeschooling: Private Choices and Public Obligations
Horace Mann at Antioch
Horace Mann: A Biography
How Can the Junior High Curriculum Be Improved?
How Will We Raise Our Children in the Year 2000?
Human Efficiency and the Levels of Intelligence
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
Selected Readings with Especial Emphasis on Group Development
Hylan Adds Pinchot to Presidency List; Foresees a Revolt
In the Matter of William Gregg, an Infant
Inadequate Functional Health Literacy Among Patients at Two Public Hospitals
Individualism Old and New
Industrials as Investments for Small Capital
Is the Present Highschool Course a Satisfactory Preparation for Business? If Not, How Should It Be Modified?
Learning to Read
The Great Debate
Left Back
A Century of Failed School Reforms
Life of Frederick the Great
Literacy Behind Prison Walls
Profiles of the Prison Population from the National Adult Literacy Survey
Looking Backward
2000-1887
Loom and Spindle
Or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls
Marginal Man and Military Service
Medical Inspection of Public Schools
Mein Kampf
Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years
Mercein V. People
Mercury: or, the Secret and Swift Messenger
Motion Study
A Method For Increasing The Efficiency Of The Workman
Mr. Rockefeller on the Stand
My Pedagogic Creed
National Education in the United States of America
New Atlantis
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education
Old Time Schools and School Books
On Their Own in Reading
On the Formation of Coal
Orbis Pictus
Origins of the Federal Reserve System
Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913
Pillars of the Republic
Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
Preventable Tragedies in Chautauqua
Principles of Scientific Management
Principles of Secondary Education
Private Power for the Public Good
A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Bankers' Association
Propaganda
The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Public Education in the United States
A Study and Interpretation of American Educational History
Public Education in the United States (revised, 1934)
Public Opinion
Public School Administration
Quackery in the Public Schools
Raised to Obey
The Rise and Spread of Mass Education
Reading Failure and Juvenile Delinquency
Reading: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game
Reduced Recidivism and Increased Employment Opportunity Through Research-Based Reading Instruction
Remarks at the Banquet of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in Boston, Massachusetts
Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Honorable Horace Mann
Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies
With The Reports of The Conferences Arranged By Committee
Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the relations between labor and capital and testimony taken by the committee v. 2
Report on Education in Europe
Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia
School Suspension Rules Hit
Scientific Management in the Churches
Screening for Service
Aptitude and Education Criteria for Military Entry
Second Annual Report of the Board of Education
Second Annual Report of the Board of Education, Together with the Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet
Volume I
Seven Psychologies
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Sate Reform School, At Westborough
Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education
Social Control
A Survey of the Foundations of Order
Straight America
A Call To National Service
Supplementary Reading for Primary Schools
Talks on Pedagogics
An Outline of the Theory of Concentration
Talks to Teachers on Psychology
And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Book 1: Cognitive Domain
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Book 2: Affective Domain
Teaching to Read, Historically Considered
Testimony of Frederick W. Taylor at Hearings Before Special Committee of the House of Representatives, January 1912
The American Religion
The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Americans, in their moral, social, and political relations
The Beautiful Tree
Indigenous Indian Education in the 18th Century
The Bell Curve
The Books of Homilies
The British System of Education
Being a complete epitome of the improvements and inventions being practiced at the Royal Free Schools, Borough-Road, Southwark
The Bugaboo of Trusts
The Challenge of Man's Future
The Change Agent's Guide to Innovation in Education
The Chautauqua Movement
The Chautauqua Movement: An Episode in the Continuing American Revolution
The Child's Picture Defining and Reading Book
The City of God
The City of the Sun
The Common School Journal Vol. II
The Commonwealth of Oceana
The Comprachicos
The Constitution of Man
Considered in Relation to External Objects
The Country School of Tomorrow
Occasional Papers, No. 1
The Crisis of Democracy
Report On The Governability Of Democracies To The Trilateral Commission
The Definition of a Profession
The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930
The Dewey Experiment in China
Educational Reform and Political Power in the Early Republic
The Dissolution of General Education: 1914-1993
The Education of American Teachers
The Educational Institutions of the United States, Their Character and Organization
The Effect of Compulsory Education and Child Labor Laws on High School Attendance in New York City, 1898-1917
The Empire of Business
The Force of Ancient Manners
Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy Revisited
The Foundations of Education
The Geneticists' Manifesto
The Gospel of Wealth
The Great Curriculum Debate
How Should We Teach Reading and Math?
The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities and Businessmen
The History of Pedagogy
The History of Utopian Thought
The History of the Laboratory Schools
The University of Chicago, 1896-1959
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
The Improvement of Reading
A Program of Diagnostic and Remedial Methods
The Ineffective Soldier
Lessons for Management and the Nation
The Intimate Papers of Colonel House
Arranged as a narrative by Charles Seymour
The Irony of Early School Reform
Educational Innovations in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
The Island of Doctor Moreau
A Possibility
The Laboring Classes
The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos
The Laws
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Life and Work of the Citizen
The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself
The Life of the Mind
The Making of the English Working Class
The Man Nobody Liked
Toward A Social History Of The Truant Officer, 1840-1940
The Meaning of a Liberal Education
The Motivation of School Work
The Myth of the Essex Junto
The New Education Malpractice Litigation
The New England Primer
The New Illiterates
And how to keep your child from becoming one
The One Best System
A History Of American Urban Education
The Philosophy of Education
The Political Writings of Richard Cobden
The Primary Education Fetish
The Proper Study of Mankind
An Inquiry into the Science of Human Relations
The Prussian Elementary Schools
The Prussian System of Public Instruction
And Its Applicability to the United States
The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading
The Public Library and the Common Schools
Three Papers on Educational Topics
The Revolt Against Civilization
The Menace of the Underman
The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report, 1933
The School and Society
The Schools of Hellas
The Science of Power
The Social Ideas of American Educators
The Theory of Business Enterprise
The Time It Takes To See And Name Objects
The Transit of Civilization
From England To America In The Seventeenth Century
The Triumph of Conservatism
a reinterpretation of American history, 1900-1916
The True Believer
The True and Only Heaven
Progress and Its Critics
The Uneducated
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Theodore Parker
Throat-Cutting Rumors Revive School Riots
Tolstoy on Education
Tragedy and Hope
A History of The World in Our Time
Travels in North Gerany
In the Years 1825 and 1826
Triumphant Democracy
Twenty Third Annual Report of the Board of Education
Uncle Tom's Cabin
or, Life Among the Lowly
Understanding Media: The Extension of Man
Utopia
What Standards?
Why Can't They Be Like We Were?
Why Children Work
The Children's Answer
Why Johnny Can't Read
And What You Can Do About It
