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Museum of Education Books of the Century

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Up From Slavery,
Booker T. Washington (1901)

The Souls of Black Folk,
W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)

How We Think (1910); Democracy and Education (1916); Art as Experience (1934); Experience and Education (1938),
John Dewey

Educational Psychology, Vols. I-III,
Edward L. Thorndike (1913-14)

How to Measure in Education,
William A. McCall (1922)

Curriculum Construction,
W.W. Charters (1923);
The Curriculum,
Franklin Bobbitt (1924)

Determinism in Education,
William C. Bagley (1925)

Foundations of Method,
William Heard Kilpatrick (1925)

The Practice of Teaching in the Secondary School,
Henry C. Morrison (1926)

The 26th National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook: Part I: Curriculum-Making: Past and Present (1926); Part II: The Foundations of Curriculum-Making (1930),
Harold Rugg (ed.)

Sociology of Teaching,
Willard W. Waller (1932)

Dare the School Build a New Social Order?,
George S. Counts (1932)

Social Ideas of American Educators,
Merle Curti (1935)

Education as the Cultivation of the Higher Mental Processes,
Charles H. Judd (1936)

Democracy as a Way of Life,
Boyd H. Bode (1937)

Literature as Exploration,

Louise M. Rosenblatt (1938)

Nature of Proof,
Harold P. Fawcett (1938)

Science in General Education,
Commission on Secondary School Curriculum (1938)

Were We Guinea Pigs?,
Class of 1938, University High School,
Ohio State University (1938); Guinea Pigs After 20 Years,
Margaret Willis (1961)

The Saber-Tooth Curriculum,
Harold R.W. Benjamin (1939)

Reorganizing Secondary Education,
V.T. Thayer, Caroline B. Zachry, and Ruth Kotinsky (1939)

Emotion and Conduct in Adolescence,
Caroline B. Zachry (1940)

Forgotten People,
George I. Sanchez (1940)

Teacher in America,
Jacques Barzun (1945)

General Education in a Free Society,
Harvard Committee (1945)

Developmental Tasks and Education,
Robert J. Havighurst (1948)

Education for Social Competence,
I. James Quillen and Lavone A. Hanna (1948)

Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction,
Ralph W. Tyler (1949)

Elementary Curriculum in Intergroup Relations,
Hilda Taba (1950)

Educational Wastelands,
Arthur E. Bestor Jr. (1953)

Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Handbook I: Cognitive Domain,
Benjamin S. Bloom (ed.) (1956);

Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Handbook II: Affective Domain,
David R. Krathwohl, Benjamin S. Bloom, and Bertram B. Masia (1964)

Spurs to Creative Teaching,
Laura Zirbes (1959)

American High School Today,
James B. Conant (1959)

Growing Up Absurd,
Paul Goodman (1960)

The Process of Education,
Jerome S. Bruner (1960)

The Transformation of the School,
Lawrence A. Cremin (1961)

Preparing Instructional Objectives,
Robert F. Mager (1962)

Reorganizing the High School Curriculum,
Harold B. Alberty and Elsie J. Alberty (1962, 3rd edition)

Education and the Cult of Efficiency,
Raymond E. Callahan (1962)

The Shaping of the American High School,
Edward A. Krug (1964)

Equality of Educational Opportunity, James S. Coleman, E.Q. Campbell, C.J. Hobson, J. McPartland, A.M. Mood, F.D. Weinfeld, and R.L. York (1966)

Life in Classrooms,
Philip W. Jackson (1968);
The Complexities of an Urban Classroom,
Louis M. Smith and William Geoffrey (1968)

Crisis in the Classroom,
Charles E. Silberman (1970)

The Culture of the School and the Problem of Change,
Seymour B. Sarason (1971)

Teacher as Stranger,

Maxine Greene (1973)
The Study of Teaching,
Michael J. Dunkin and Bruce J. Biddle (1974)

The One Best System,
David B. Tyack (1974)

Curriculum Theorizing,
William F. Pinar (1975)

Schoolteacher,
Dan C. Lortie (1975)

Schooling in Capitalist America,
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (1976)

Ideology and Curriculum,
Michael W. Apple (1979)

The Educational Imagination,
Elliot W. Eisner (1979)

Instant Art, Instant Culture,
Laura H. Chapman (1982)

The Paideia Proposal,
Mortimer J. Adler (1982)

Designing Evaluations of Educational and Social Programs,
Lee Cronbach (1982)

Frames of Mind,
Howard Gardner (1983)

Horace’s Compromise,
Theodore R. Sizer (1984)

A Place Called School,
John I. Goodlad (1984)

Keeping Track,
Jeannie Oakes (1985)

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