Library
This collection brings together 433 sources spanning several centuries—most cited by Gatto, others I discovered while pursuing my own investigations. The materials range from direct commentary on education to broader social and historical works that help form a picture of how we got to now. Happy browsing, and stay lucky!
Address to the German Nation
"The Dumbbell Curve"
120 Years of American Education
A Statistical Portrait
1984
9 Noes Later, Vt. Town To Finish Year It Never Voted To Begin
A British View of the Steel Corporation
A History of Compulsory Schooling Laws
A History of Education
A History of Experimental Psychology
A History of Teachers College Columbia University
A Life of Francis Parkman
A Modern Utopia
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to Present, Vol II
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to Present, Vol III
A Sociological Philosophy of Education
A Study of American Intelligence
A Study of History
Abridgement by D. C. Somerwell
A System of Complete Medical Police
Selections from Johann Peter Frank
A Textbook in the History of Education
A Year in Europe
Action for Mental Health
Address and Proceedings of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the NEA
Adolescence
Adresses and Proceedings of the Annual NEA Meeting 1894
Adult Literacy in America
A First Look at the Findings of the National Adult Literacy Survey
Altering Destinies
America Must Lose by a "planned economy", the stepping-stone to a Regimented State
America Revised
America's New Economic Order
American Politics in the Early Republic
An Economic Lesson For Returning Students
An Economic Measure of School Efficiency
An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Experiment in Education, Made at the Male Asylum of Madras
Suggesting a System by which a School Or Family May Teach Itself Under the Superintendance of the Master Or Parent
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Open Life
Ancient Law
Its Connection With the Early History of Society and Its Relation to Modern Ideas
And It Came To Pass
And Madly Teach
A Layman's Look at Public School Education
Angela's Ashes
Animal's Genetic Program Decoded, in a Science First
Annual Report Essays 1966-1982
Annual Report, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1960
Are Schools Failing?
Army Training of Illiterates in World War II
Asylums
Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Automating the Worker
Autonomous Technology
Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought
Beatrice Webb: a life, 1858-1943
Behaviorism
Ben-Hur
A Tale of the Christ
Between Two Ages
America's Role in the Technetronic Era
Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871
Bullshit Job
Bureaucracy, Aristocracy, and Autocracy: The Prussian Experience, 1660-1815
By the Sweat of They Brow
Work in the Western World
Can Dyslexia Be Artificially Induced In Schools?
Yes, Says Researcher Edward Miller
Can Your Child Really Read?
Why Our High Schools Are In Collapse
Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
Carroll Quigley: Life, Lectures, and Collected Works
Changing Conceptions of Education
Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education for April 1872
Classroom Management
Its Principle and Technique
Cloning of the American Mind
Coming of Age in Samoa
Competition
Compulsory School Attendance Laws and Their Administration
Computers may soon make 'the three Rs' ancient history
Concerning Evolution
Concerning Human Understanding
Conditioned Reflexes
Congressional Record 1940 Third Session
Congressional Record of the Second Session of the Sixty-Fourth Congress, 1917
Corporations Still Give, but Also Get
Crystallizing Public Opinion
Daedalus, or Science and the Future
Dan Quayle Was Right
Dare the School Build a New Social Order?
David Samuel Snedden
The Ideology of Social Efficiency
Davidson's Influence on Educational Historiography
Debate: A Second American Century
Democracy
An American Novel
Designing Education for the Future
Rationale, Procedures and Appraisal
Deutsche Grammatik
Different Drummers
How Teachers of Teachers View Public Education
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Economic and Industrial Progress of the Century
Economy of Time in Education
Educating for the New World Order
Education and Jobs
The Great Training Robbery
Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921-1934
Education and the Cult of Efficiency
A Study of the Social Forces That Have Shaped the Administration of the Public Schools
Education and the Philosophy of Experimentalism
Education and the Social Crisis
A Proposed Program
Education in the Forming of American Society
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Einstein: A Centenary Volume
Elementary Principles of Education
Elimination of Waste In Education
Emile, or On Education
Encyclopedia Britannica 11th Edition Vol 1
Enlightenment, Reform, Reaction: The Schooling Revolution in Prussia
Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative
Eugenics: With Special Reference to Intellect and Character
Excerpts From Solzhenitsyn's Article on Soviets
Family Change Among Black Americans: What Do We Know?
Fat and Mean
the corporate squeeze of working Americans and the myth of managerial "downsizing"
Feasibility Study: Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program
Final Report of the Commission of Industrial Relations
Fitness of American Youth for Military Service
Forty Years of American Life
Foundations, United States Foreign Policy, and African Education, 1945-1975
Foundations: Their Power and Influence
Founding Teachers College
Frederick W. Taylor
The Father Of Scientific Management, Myth & Reality
Freud and Seduction Theory
From Dr. Mather to Dr. Seuss: 200 years of American Books for Children
From Kidd to Dewey: the origin and meaning of ‘social efficiency’
Germline Warfare
Grand Opening in Texas: The First Edison School
Homeschooling: Private Choices and Public Obligations
Homestead
The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town
Horace Mann at Antioch
Horace Mann: A Biography
How Can the Junior High Curriculum Be Improved?
How Children Learn To Read
How We Think
How Will We Raise Our Children in the Year 2000?
How to lose a Billion
Human Efficiency and the Levels of Intelligence
Human Relations in Curriculum Change
Selected Readings with Especial Emphasis on Group Development
Hylan Adds Pinchot to Presidency List; Foresees a Revolt
In a World of Violence, the Search for a New Humanism
In the Matter of William Gregg, an Infant
In the Name of Eugenics
Inadequate Functional Health Literacy Among Patients at Two Public Hospitals
Individualism Old and New
Indoctrinating the Children
Industrials as Investments for Small Capital
Insurance of Peace
Investigations of Statements Made By Dr. William A. Wirt
Is America Safe For Democracy?
Is the Present Highschool Course a Satisfactory Preparation for Business? If Not, How Should It Be Modified?
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Kansas City Proves Money Isn't the Answer
Laggards In Our Schools
A Study of Retardation and Elimination in City School Systems
Law School
Legal Education in America from the 1850's to the 1980's
Learning to Read
The Great Debate
Left Back
A Century of Failed School Reforms
Lenin Collected Works, Volume 27
Liberty.com
Life of Frederick the Great
Literacy Behind Prison Walls
Profiles of the Prison Population from the National Adult Literacy Survey
Looking Backward
2000-1887
Loom and Spindle
Or, Life Among the Early Mill Girls
Machiavelli and New York's School-Aid Politics
Machinery, The New Messiah
Man a Machine and Man a Plant
Managers of Virtue
Public School Leadership in America, 1820-1980
Marginal Man and Military Service
Medical Inspection of Public Schools
Mein Kampf
Memoirs of a life, chiefly passed in Pennsylvania, within the last sixty years
Mental Hygiene and the Public Schools
Mental Tests and the Immigrant
Mercein V. People
Mercury: or, the Secret and Swift Messenger
Molder of the American Mind
A Critical Review of the Social Attitudes of Seventeen Leaders in American Education
Money and School Performance
Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment
Motion Study
A Method For Increasing The Efficiency Of The Workman
Mr. Rockefeller on the Stand
My Pedagogic Creed
National Education in Europe
Being an Account of the Organization, Administration, Instruction, and Statistics of Public Schools of Different Grades in The Principal States
National Education in the United States of America
New Atlantis
Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education
None Dare Call It Treason
Observations on the Scientific Study of Human Nature
Old Money
The Mythology of America's Upper Class
Old Time Schools and School Books
On Their Own in Reading
On the Formation of Coal
Orbis Pictus
Origins of the Federal Reserve System
Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913
Our Benevolent Feudalism
Our Fourth of July
Our Responsibility for Quality
Out of Work
A Study of Employment Agencies: Their Treatment of the Unemployed, and Their Influence Upon Homes and Business
Outlines of General Zoology
Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism
The Foundations at Home and Abroad
Philosophy of Education, Ulich
Pillars of the Republic
Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860
Political Parties
A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
Popular Government
Four Essays
Preparing for Power
America's Elite Boarding Schools
Preventable Tragedies in Chautauqua
Principles of Scientific Management
Principles of Secondary Education
Private Power for the Public Good
A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association for 1908
Proceedings of the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Convention of the American Bankers' Association
Propaganda
The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Propaganda
Public Education in the United States
A Study and Interpretation of American Educational History
Public Education in the United States (revised, 1934)
Public Opinion
Public School Administration
Quackery in the Public Schools
Race and Life of the Aryan People
Raised to Obey
The Rise and Spread of Mass Education
Random Reminiscence of Men and Events
Rationalism in Europe
Reading Failure and Juvenile Delinquency
Reading: A Psycholinguistic Guessing Game
Reduced Recidivism and Increased Employment Opportunity Through Research-Based Reading Instruction
Remarks at the Banquet of the Boston Chamber of Commerce in Boston, Massachusetts
Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Honorable Horace Mann
Report of the Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies
With The Reports of The Conferences Arranged By Committee
Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the relations between labor and capital and testimony taken by the committee v. 2
Report on Education in Europe
Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia
Revolutionary Dreams
Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
Roots of Crisis
American Eduction in the Twentieth Century
School Suspension Rules Hit
School: The Story of American Public Education
Schools Move to Curb Wrangling Over Rankings
Schools of To-Morrow
Science and the Moral Life
Scientific Management In Education
Scientific Management in American Industry
Scientific Management in the Churches
Scientific Management of School Pants
Screening for Service
Aptitude and Education Criteria for Military Entry
Second Annual Report of the Board of Education
Second Annual Report of the Board of Education, Together with the Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board
Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet
Volume I
Seven Psychologies
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Sate Reform School, At Westborough
Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education
Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall
Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
Social Control
A Survey of the Foundations of Order
Sterilization of Habitual Criminals
Straight America
A Call To National Service
Strangers in the Land
Patterns of American Nativism in 1860-1925
Supplementary Reading for Primary Schools
Talks on Pedagogics
An Outline of the Theory of Concentration
Talks to Teachers on Psychology
And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Book 1: Cognitive Domain
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Book 2: Affective Domain
Teacher as Therapist
Teaching to Read, Historically Considered
Testimony of Frederick W. Taylor at Hearings Before Special Committee of the House of Representatives, January 1912
The "Sight Reading" Method of Teaching Reading, As A Source of Reading Disability
The American High School Today
The American Religion
The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Americans, in their moral, social, and political relations
The Anglo-American Establishment
The Anglo-Saxon Race: It's History, Character and Destiny
The Beautiful Tree
Indigenous Indian Education in the 18th Century
The Behaviorist Manifesto
The Bell Curve
The Beveridge Report
Social Insurance and Allied Services
The Books of Homilies
The British System of Education
Being a complete epitome of the improvements and inventions being practiced at the Royal Free Schools, Borough-Road, Southwark
The Bugaboo of Trusts
The Challenge of Man's Future
The Change Agent's Guide to Innovation in Education
The Character of Races
As Influenced by Physical Environment, Natural Selection and Historical Development
The Chautauqua Movement
The Chautauqua Movement: An Episode in the Continuing American Revolution
The Child's Picture Defining and Reading Book
The Child, The Parent, and The State
The Child, the Movie and Censorship
The City of God
The City of the Sun
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Vol 3
The Common School Journal Vol. II
The Commonwealth of Oceana
The Comprachicos
The Conservative Constitution
The Constitution of Man
Considered in Relation to External Objects
The Country School of Tomorrow
Occasional Papers, No. 1
The Crisis of Democracy
Report On The Governability Of Democracies To The Trilateral Commission
The Definition of a Profession
The Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930
The Descent of Man
And Selection In Relation To Sex
The Dewey Experiment in China
Educational Reform and Political Power in the Early Republic
The Dissolution of General Education: 1914-1993
The Early History of Institutions
The Education of American Teachers
The Educational Institutions of the United States, Their Character and Organization
The Effect of Compulsory Education and Child Labor Laws on High School Attendance in New York City, 1898-1917
The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books
The Empire of Business
The End of Jobs
The Engineers and the Price System
The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda
The Family and the Nation
A Study in Natural Inheritance and Social Responsibility
The Force of Ancient Manners
Federalist Politics and the Unitarian Controversy Revisited
The Foundations of Education
The Future in America
The Gary Schools
The Gary Schools, A General Account
The Geneticists' Manifesto
The Gospel of Wealth
The Goths in New-England
The Great Curriculum Debate
How Should We Teach Reading and Math?
The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904
The Great School Wars
A History of the New York City Public Schools
The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956; An Experiment in Literary Investigation Parts 5-7
The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities and Businessmen
The History of Pedagogy
The History of Utopian Thought
The History of the Laboratory Schools
The University of Chicago, 1896-1959
The Hoosier Schoolmaster
The House of Morgan
An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
The Impact of Science on Society
The Improvement of Reading
A Program of Diagnostic and Remedial Methods
The Ineffective Soldier
Lessons for Management and the Nation
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The International Jew
The World's Foremost Problem
The Intimate Papers of Colonel House
Arranged as a narrative by Charles Seymour
The Irony of Early School Reform
Educational Innovations in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
The Island of Doctor Moreau
A Possibility
The Laboring Classes
The Labyrinth of Solitude
The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos
The Laws
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Licensing Racket
The Life and Work of the Citizen
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution
The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself
The Life of the Mind
The Making of the English Working Class
The Man Nobody Liked
Toward A Social History Of The Truant Officer, 1840-1940
The Man Who Gave Away Rockefeller's Millions
The Memoirs of Frederick T. Gates
The Managerial Revolution
What Is Happening In The World
The Meaning of a Liberal Education
The Molecular Vision of Life
Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology
The Motivation of School Work
The Myth of the Essex Junto
The NHS Company Inc.?
The Social Consequences of the Professional Dominance in the National Health Service
The Nation, v.93 1911
The National Education Association: Its Organization and Functions
The New Education Malpractice Litigation
The New England Primer
The New Illiterates
And how to keep your child from becoming one
The Old World in the New
The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People
The One Best System
A History Of American Urban Education
The One-Teacher School in the 1980's
The Open Conspiracy
Blue Prints for a World Revolution
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Origin of Species
The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States
The Origins of "Manifest Destiny"
The Origins of Job Structures in the Steel Industry
The Passing of the Great Race
Or the Racial Basis of European History
The Phantom Public
The Philosophy of Education
The Political Party versus the Political Machine
The Political Writings of Richard Cobden
The Primary Education Fetish
The Promise of American Life
The Proper Study of Mankind
An Inquiry into the Science of Human Relations
The Protestant Establishment
Aristocracy & Caste In America
The Prussian Elementary Schools
The Prussian System of Public Instruction
And Its Applicability to the United States
The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading
The Public Library and the Common Schools
Three Papers on Educational Topics
The Quest for Utopia
An Anthology of Imaginary Societies
The Races of Europe
A Sociological Study
The Rapid Multiplication of the Unfit
The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783
The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz 1829-1863, Vol 2
The Revolt Against Civilization
The Menace of the Underman
The Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report, 1933
The Rockefellers
An American Dynasty
The Role of Schools in Mental Health
The Roots of Rural Capitalism
Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860
The Ruling Class
Elements of a Science of Politics
The School Staffing Surge
Decades of Employment Growth in America's Public Schools
The School and Society
The Schools of Hellas
The Science of Power
The Social Ideas of American Educators
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The State of Education in this Troubled Age
A Sweeping Indictment of Modern Schools and Colleges
The Student as Nigger
The Super Race
An American Problem
The Theory of Business Enterprise
The Time It Takes To See And Name Objects
The Transit of Civilization
From England To America In The Seventeenth Century
The Triumph of Conservatism
a reinterpretation of American history, 1900-1916
The True Believer
The True and Only Heaven
Progress and Its Critics
The Uneducated
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Village of a Thousand Souls
The Visible Hand
The Managerial Revolution in American Business
The Web
A Revelation of Patriotism
Theodore Parker
Throat-Cutting Rumors Revive School Riots
Today and Tomorrow
Tolstoy on Education
Tragedy and Hope
A History of The World in Our Time
Travels in North Gerany
In the Years 1825 and 1826
Triumphant Democracy
Twelve Year Sentence
Radical Views of Compulsory Schooling
Twenty Third Annual Report of the Board of Education
Two Moral Universes
The Social Problem of the Idiots from 1845 to 1855 and Mentally Retarded Sons and Daughters from 1945 to 1955
Uncle Tom's Cabin
or, Life Among the Lowly
Understanding Media: The Extension of Man
Unemployment in the Learned Professions
An International Study of Occupational and Educational Planning
United States. Committee on Public Information. Official Bulletin (Vol. 2, No. 288)
Utopia
Village Communities in the East and West
Walden Two
What Is Enlightenment?
What Is The Matter?
What Standards?
Who Controls American Education?
Why Can't They Be Like We Were?
Why Children Work
The Children's Answer
Why Johnny Can't Read
And What You Can Do About It
William Henry Welch, and the Heroic Age of American Medicine
Woman and the New Race
Workers' Control of Machine Production in the Nineteenth Century
