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• Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs, and Cures (ILR reprints #641 (originally appeared in The Year in School Science); 1989), by John H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Effects of Services on Student Development (Washington: National Institute of Education, 1977), by Joy A. Frechtling
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm our Children (c2006), ed. by Eric A. Hanushek (PDF with commentary at Stanford)

• ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios (preprint version, c2013), ed. by Katherine V. Wills and Richard Aaron Rice (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Helping Traumatized Children Learn: Supportive School Environments for Children Traumatized by Family Violence (Boston: Massachusetts Advocates for Children, c2005), by Susan F. Cole, Jessica Greenwald O'Brien, M. Geron Gadd, Joel Ristuccia, D. Luray Wallace, and Michael Gregory (PDF at traumasensitiveschools.org)

• A Big Apple for Educators: New York City's Experiment with Schoolwide Performance Bonuses: Final Evaluation Report (c2011), by Julie A. Marsh, Matthew G. Springer, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Kun Yuan, Scott Epstein, Julia Koppich, Nidhi Kalra, Catherine Dimartino, and Art Peng (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent (1993) (PDF at ERIC)
• No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools (c2000), by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)
• The State of the African American Male (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, c2010), ed. by Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Scientific Illiteracy: Causes, Costs, and Cures (ILR reprints #641 (originally appeared in The Year in School Science); 1989), by John H. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Building Community: Reforming Math and Science Education in Rural Schools (c2006), by Paul Boyer (PDF at Alaska)
• Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education (1999), by Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Raising the Educational Achievement of Secondary School Students: An Idea Book (2 volumes; 1995), by United States Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• No Excuses: Seven Principals of Low-Income Schools Who Set the Standard for High Achievement, by Samuel Casey Carter (PDF at ed.gov)

• Family Size and Achievement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Judith Blake (HTML at UC Press)

• Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002), by National Research Council Center for Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded paperback edition, c2000), ed. by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking (illustrated HTML and page images at NAP)
• The Fundamentals of Learning (New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1932), by Edward L. Thorndike and Columbia University Teachers College Institute of Psychological Research
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Learning, Remembering, Believing: Enhancing Human Performance, ed. by Daniel Druckman and Robert A. Bjork (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• Positive Trends in Learning: Meeting the Needs of a Rapidly Changing World, by Dee Dickinson (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, by Hermann Ebbinghaus, trans. by Henry A. Ruger and Clara E. Bussenius (HTML at York)

• Reviewing the Behavioral Science Knowledge Base on Technology Transfer, ed. by Thomas E. Backer, Susan L. David, and Gerald Soucy (PDF at NIH)
• Behavioral Analysis and Treatment of Substance Abuse, ed. by Norman A. Krasnegor (PDF at NIH)

• Tales From the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and Anthropological Linguistic Analyses of Tales Told by Trobriand Children and Adults (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2015), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Project MKULTRA, the CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification: Joint Hearing Before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, August 3, 1977 (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and United States Senate Committee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miss Minerva and William Green Hill, by Frances Boyd Calhoun (Gutenberg text)

• Behavioral Intervention Techniques in Drug Abuse Treatment, ed. by John Grabowski, Maxine L. Stitzer, and Jack E. Henningfield (PDF at NIH)

• The ADHD Book: Living Right Now! (scroll down for the free version, in HTML chapters), by Martin L. Kutscher (illustrated HTML with commentary at pediatricneurology.com)

• Clearing the Air: Quit Smoking Today, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at smokefree.gov)
• Tobacco and the Clinician: Interventions for Medical and Dental Practice, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (PDF files at cancer.gov)
• Pharmacological Adjuncts in Smoking Cessation, ed. by John Grabowski and Sharon M. Hall (PDF at NIH)

• Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General (2000), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at nih.gov)
• Community-Based Interventions for Smokers: The COMMIT Field Experience, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (PDF files at cancer.gov)

• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness: What Caregivers Need to Know (Vancouver: BCCampus, c2015), by Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (multiple formats with commentary at opentextbc.ca)

• Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment (2001), by National Research Council Center for Education, ed. by James W. Pellegrino, Naomi Chudowsky, and Robert Glaser (page images and HTML at NAP)

• Behavioral Pharmacology of Human Drug Dependence, ed. by Travis Thompson and Chris E. Johanson (PDF at NIH)

• The Measurement of Sensory Thresholds in Exceptional Children: An Experimental Approach to Some Problems of Differential Diagnosis and Education With Special Reference to Hearing (Cooperative research project #418; Houston: University of Houston, 1960), by Lee Meyerson and John L. Michael (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of Neurotherapy (partial serial archives)

• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (first and second editions, 1998 and 2018), by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto (HTML and PDF at incompleteideas.net)

• Constructivist Blended Learning Approach to Teaching English for Specific Purposes (c2012), by Oleg Tarnopolsky (PDF files with commentary at degruyter.com)
• Coming to Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment in Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Lynne (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media (c2008), ed. by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Distributed Interactive Simulation of Combat (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Value of Praise and Reproof as Incentives for Children (Columbia University dissertation, reprinted from Archives of Psychology #71; 1924), by Elizabeth B. Hurlock (page images at HathiTrust)

• Funeral Services at the Burial of the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D. Together with the Sermon, by Stephen Elliott (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Office, 1871), ed. by Unitarian Congregational Society (Syracuse, N.Y.)
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• True Eminence Founded on Holiness: A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Lieut. Gen. T.J. Jackson (1863), by James B. Ramsey (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (originally published 1991; electronic edition c2013), by Leslie Kurke (Javascript-dependent page images at escholarship.org)

• The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition; Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Terry Anderson (HTML and PDF with commentary at aupress.ca)
• The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition, 2008), ed. by Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Teaching in the Switched-On Classroom: An Introduction to Electronic Education and HyperCourseware (c1997), by Kent L. Norman (HTML at UMD)
• The Future of Information Technology in Education (1997), by David G. Moursund (HTML at Oregon)
• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (New York: Basic Books, c1980), by Seymour Papert (PDF with commentary at MIT)
• Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy (New York: Institute for Distributed Creativity, c2011), ed. by Trebor Scholz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media (c2008), ed. by Drew Davidson (PDF with commentary at CMU)

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