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• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)

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• Education at Berkeley: The "Muscatine Report" (second printing with corrections and epilogue, 1968), by University of California Select Committee on Education (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
• Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (New York: The John Day Co., c1932), by George S. Counts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strengthening Programs for Writing Across the Curriculum (c1988), ed. by Susan H. McLeod (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers Across the Curriculum (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Poverty of Ideological Education (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2000), by Tran Van Doan (multiple formats at Google; Google's cover page may give inaccurate title)

• American Education: Its Principles and Elements, by Edward Deering Mansfield (page images at MOA)

• Higher Education and the New Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008), by George Keller (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1997), ed. by Ronald G. Ehrenberg (at ecommons.cornell.edu)
• Manifesto of a Tenured Radical (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Cary Nelson (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Universities and the Future of America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Derek Curtis Bok (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security (c2012), by National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Higher Education and Workforce (multiple formats with commentary at NAP)
• Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects, by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)

• Equality of Educational Opportunity (aka the Coleman Report; 2 parts; Washington: US Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1966), by James S. Coleman, Ernest Q. Campbell, Carol J. Hobson, James M. McPartland, Alexander M. Mood, Frederic D. Weinfeld, and Robert L. York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces: Diversity and Free Expression in Education (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by John Palfrey (illustrated HTML at bravespaces.org)
• Learning from No Child Left Behind (c2009), by John E. Chubb (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• Closing the Education Gap: Benefits and Costs, by Georges Vernez, Richard A. Krop, and C. Peter Rydell (PDF files at rand.org)
• Evaluation of "Redesigning the National Assessment of Educational Progress" (1998), by National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Choice With Equity, ed. by Paul T. Hill (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• Implementing Schoolwide Projects: An Idea Book, by Ellen M. Pechman and Leila Fiester (HTML at ed.gov)

• Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education, by National Research Council Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ed. by M. Suzanne Donovan and Christopher T. Cross (page images and partial PDF at NAP)

• Higher Education as a Moral Enterprise (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1992), by Edward Le Roy Long (PDF at Georgetown)
• The Para-Academic Handbook: A Toolkit for Making-Learning-Creating-Acting (Bristol, UK: HammerOn Press, c2014), ed. by Alex Wardrop and Deborah M. Withers (PDF with commentary at hammeronpress.net)

• Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), ed. by Patrick Blessinger and T. J. Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Open Education: International Perspectives in Higher Education (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), ed. by Patrick Blessinger and T. J. Bliss (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A History of Education: A Social Interpretation (second edition; New York: Ronald Press Co., c1959), by James Mulhern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Western Education (London: A. and C. Black, 1921), by William Boyd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization, by Ellwood P. Cubberley (Gutenberg text)
• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Comenius and the Beginnings of Educational Reform (London: William Heinemann, 1900), by W. S. Monroe (PDF files at Roehampton)

• Remembering School Days (Telling Our Stories v. 5; Sherman, TX: Big Barn Press, 2005), ed. by Jerry Bryan Lincecum and Peggy A. Redshaw (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• A Framework and Principles for International Comparative Studies in Education (1990), ed. by Norman M. Bradburn and Dorothy M. Gifford (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Learning at Not-School: A Review of Study, Theory, and Advocacy for Education in Non-Formal Settings (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2013), by Julian Sefton-Green (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Doing Comparative Education: Three Decades of Collaboration, by Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Gail Benjamin (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Rebirth, Reform, And Resilience: Universities In Transition, 1300-1700 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by James M. Kittelson and Pamela J. Transue (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Seven Liberal Arts: A Study in Mediaeval Culture (Columbia University Teachers College Contributions to Education #11, second printing; 1919), by Paul Abelson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Rise of Universities (1923), by Charles Homer Haskins (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Education of Women During The Renaissance (dissertation; Washington: National Capital Press, 1916), by Mary Agnes Cannon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy L. Sayers (HTML with commentary at gbt.org)

• Medieval Education (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), ed. by Ronald B. Begley and Joseph W. Koterski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936: A Presentation of Educational Movements and Their Outcome in Education Today (Berkeley, CA: Sather Gate Book Shop, c1937), by William Warren Ferrier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eighty Years' Progress of British North America (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1863), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)

• Histoire Critique des Doctrines de l'Éducation en France Depuis le Seizième Siècle (2 volumes, in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1879), by Gabriel Compayré (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Short History of Education (second edition; London: Ralph Holland and Co., 1904), by George Benson Clough (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Contribution of the Society of Friends to Education in Indiana (Indiana Historical Society Publications v13 #2; 1939), by Ethel Hittle McDaniel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Child's Play: Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), ed. by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Gates Open Slowly: A History of Education in Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1949), by Frank LeRond McVey (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Education in Kentucky (published as Bulletin of the KY Dept. of Education v. 7 #4, 1914), ed. by Barksdale Hamlett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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