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• The Underground History of American Education (2003), by John Taylor Gatto (HTML at johntaylorgatto.com)
• Education in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Edward P. Lazear (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• The Social Benefits of Education (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), ed. by Jere Richard Behrman and Nevzer Stacey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minding the Time, 1492-1992: Jesuit Education and Issues in American Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1992), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• Universities and the Future of America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Derek Curtis Bok (page images at HathiTrust)
• Higher Education and the New Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008), by George Keller (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (c2008), by Elenore Long (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by Bronwyn T. Williams (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Choice With Equity, ed. by Paul T. Hill (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

• Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning (c2011), by Jabari Mahiri (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (c2014), by Jon Dron and Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Democracy and Education, by John Dewey (Gutenberg text)

• International Journal of Social Pedagogy (2012-) (full serial archives)

• International Journal of Social Pedagogy (2012-) (full serial archives)

• 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)

• 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)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media (10th anniversary edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2019), by Mizuko Itō, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Mizuko Itō, Sonja Baumer, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Living and Learning With New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2009), by Mizuko Itō, Heather A. Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C. J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson, contrib. by Sonja Baumer, Rachel Cody, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, Dan Perkel, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)

• Game Research Methods: An Overview (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2015), ed. by Petri Lankoski and Staffan Bjork (PDF with commentary at CMU)

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Gaming the Stage: Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018), by Gina Bloom
  • Javascript-dependent HTML at University of Michigan Press
  • multiple formats via Figshare

• Analog Game Studies (full serial archives)

• The Bishop's Jaegers (1932), by Thorne Smith (HTML and MS Reader in the UK; NO US ACCESS)

• Homes of the Freed (New York: New Republic, 1926), by Rossa B. Cooley, contrib. by J. H. Dillard, illust. by Julius J. Lankes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Schools in Crisis: Training for Success of Failure? (electronic edition; Houston: Advance Publishins, 2009), by Carl Sommer (PDF files at advancepublishing.com)
• USA Education in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), ed. by Raphael Calis and Anita N. Green (PDF at state.gov)
• A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform (1983), by National Commission on Excellence in Education (HTML at ed.gov)
• Bulletin (United States Bureau/Office of Education) (partial serial archives)
• Communist-Socialist Propaganda in American Schools: A Documented Study of the Role National Education Association is Taking in the Indoctrination of the Youth of Our Country With the Ideology of Communism-Socialism (fourth printing; Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1958), by Verne Paul Kaub (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Learning Together: Israeli Innovations in Education That Could Benefit Americans (c1995), by A. Harry Passow, ed. by Mitchell Geoffrey Bard (HTML at Jewish Virtual Library)
• The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools (Pasadena, CA: The author, c1924), by Upton Sinclair, illust. by Art Young
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Educational Facilities in the United States for South African Students (New York: Institute of International Education, 1921), by Federation of South African Students in America
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Educational Guide for Syrian Students in the United States (New York: Syrian-American Press, 1921), by Philip K. Hitti
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Deschooling Society, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk?, ed. by Paul E. Peterson (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• A Primer on America's Schools, ed. by Terry M. Moe (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• A Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States of America, by United States Office of Education (page images at MOA)
• Taking a Stand on Education, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Zaboty o Prosvieshchenii v Soedinennykh Shtatakh; Kak Russkie Immigranty Mogut Ispolzovat Amerikanskuiu Sistemu Obrazovaniia (Russian translation of Education in the United States, with a preface and some English commentary; New York: Foreign Language Information Service, American Red Cross, 1920), by William F. Russell, contrib. by P. P. Claxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Labor and Education: Our Greatest Resource; Don't Sell Them Short (CIO publication #99; 1944), by Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dare the School Build a New Social Order? (New York: The John Day Co., c1932), by George S. Counts (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington, Patron of Learning (New York and London: The Century Co., c1932), by Leonard Clinton Helderman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education (Pasadena, CA: The author, c1923), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Education Demanded by the People of the U. States, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)
• Latin and Greek in American Education, With Symposia on the Value of Humanistic Studies (New York and London: Macmillan, 1911), ed. by Francis W. Kelsey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Means and Ends of Universal Education, by Ira Mayhew (page images at MOA)
• The Revival of Education, by Samuel J. May (page images at MOA)
• School Figures: The Data behind the Debate, by Hanna Skandera and Richard Sousa (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)

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