Mondale, Sarah. School: The Story of American Public Education. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002.

This book accompanies a PBS series, and while it is not designed to be a comprehensive history, it does provide the lay reader with a chronology of education history from the mid-19th century to the early 1980s. Materials cover educational issues such as bilingual education, school choice, and standardized testing. A number of black and white photographs are included.

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Two Men Named Ben: Historic Roots of Education in Pennsylvania