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Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas is a book by economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell (hardcover 1993, paperback 2003, Kindle Edition 2010) that details Sowell's assessment of the state of education in the United States (both K-12 education and higher education).
The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling (ISBN 0-945700-05-9, pbk. ISBN 0-945700-04-0) is a critique of the United States education system by John Taylor Gatto.
The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 [3] – October 25, 2018 [4]) was an American author and school teacher.After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.
American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876 is a 1980 nonfiction book by American historian Lawrence A. Cremin, published by Harper & Row. The book is the second volume in Cremin's trilogy on US schools throughout the nation's history. In 1981, the book won the Pulitzer Prize for History. [1]
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The book is a "passionate plea to preserve and renew public education." [8] By 2007, school choice, standardized testing and accountability were promoted by the "educational establishment." Ravitch writes that these policies were "degrading the intellectual capacity of students." [6]
Mohr, Clarence L. "Review: Schooling, Modernization, and Race: The Continuing Dilemma of the American South" American Journal of Education 106#3 (1998) pp 439–50 in JSTOR Mohr, Clarence L. "Minds of the New South: Higher Education in Black and White, 1880-1915 " Southern Quarterly 46#4 (2009): 8-34 online