Free Education eBooks Online : History of Education
Here is a list of online books about History of Education in various formats available for free :
- A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform by National Commission on Excellence in Education (HTML at ed.gov)
- A Short History of Education (second edition, 1904) by George Benson Clough (HTML with commentary in the Netherlands)
- A Statement of the Theory of Education in the United States of America by United States Office of Education (page images at MOA)
- Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich (HTML at PSU)
- Japanese Education (1995 edition) by Katsuta Shiuchi and Nakauchi Toshio (illustrated HTML in Japan)
- Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)
- Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects II by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)
- Lessons Learned from FIPSE Projects III by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)
- Memoirs of Mary D. Bradford by Mary Davison Bradford (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Student Social Action by Tom Hayden (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Taking a Stand on Education by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wellington Publications)
- The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at jjnet.com)
- The Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell
- HTML at AOL
- multiple formats in Australia
- The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum of the Conduct of Universities by Business Men by Thorsten Veblen (text at McMaster; 540K)
- The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School by Francisco Ferrer, trans. by Joseph McCabe (HTML at GeoCities)
- The Revival of Education by Samuel J. May (page images at MOA)