The School in the United States: A Documentary History

"FOR THE STUDENT The School in the United States is your essential resource for documents related to the history of Education. Keep this text on your bookshelf as a reference and guide as you explore the history of Education. FOR THE INSTRUCTOR The School in the United States is comprehensive enough to be used as a main text, and brief enough to be used as one of many texts in a course....." [from the book of the back cover]

The book is more than just a history of American Education. It contains all or part of many actual historical documents, organized by time period and topic. And the topics relate to American History in many more areas than simply education. The ideas of our Founding Fathers, early struggles for Civil Rights, immigration, women's rights, and the Native American experience are all a part of this text. Yes, Fraser includes his own comments which are helpful for the study of history, but it is his compilation of original documents that makes this a winner.