School in the United States

James W. Fraser is Professor of History and Education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, USA. He was the 2012–2014 President of the History of Education Society.

• Organised Chronologically:1. The School in Colonial America, 1620—1770 2. The American Revolution and Schools for the New Republic, 1770—1820 3. The Common School Movement, 1820—1860 4. Schooling Moves West, 1835—1860 5. Slavery, Reconstruction, and the Schools of the South, 1820—1937 6. The Emergence of the High School, 1821—1959 7. Growth and Diversity in Schools and Students, 1880—1960 8. The Progressive Era, 1890―1950 9. Schools in the Cold War Era, 1950—1970 10. Civil Rights, Integration, and School Reform, 1954—1980 11.Rights, Opportunities and Limits in American Education, 1965—1980 12.Reform Efforts of the 1980s and 1990s and the New Century, 1980—2005 13.Curriculum, Technology, and New Tensions, 2005—2018Organised Thematically:How Had the Job of Teaching Changed Over Time and How Have Teachers Helped Change It? How is Technology Changing Schools? For Better? For Worse? Who Pays for Schools? Who Decides What to Do with the Money? Are Schools Fair? What Should Fairness in Schooling Look Like? A Broadening Quest for Rights and Opportunities in American Education. School Violence, School Choice, Teacher Unions, Liberal and Conservative Views of Fairness. What Gets Taught? What Should Get Taught? Hidden and Overt Curriculum? What Is the Purpose of Public Schools? How Has the Purpose Changed Over Time?

“This is my favorite book that I use with my students. It allows me a lot of creativity in planning the course curriculum and I like that students can learn from the primary sources without me having to search for all of the documents.”—Josephine Tabet Sarvis, PhD, Dominican University"James Fraser provides an excellent comprehensive collection of primary sources that provide the student with an opportunity for reflecting, constructing meaning, and establishing relationships with the past through the ideas and experiences of thsoe who lived it and helped form American education as we know it."—Sam F. Stack Jr., Professor, Social and Cultural Foundations, West Virginia University"Fraser has most certainly achieved his goal of providing students ‘with a way to immerse themselves in some of the major debates that have consumed educators over the decades.’ His book enables students to become historians."—Christine A. Ogren, Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, the University of Iowa