Presents some techniques that were used to discipline students in American public schools during the first half of the nineteenth century. (Author/IRT)

Examines the development of the "New England pedagogy." Finds that it began in response to the materialism and ambition of Jacksonian America. It sought to cultivate the capacity for individual self-government and to counter the commercialization of the classroom. (DM)

This article surveys educational environments and philosophies of school discipline from the colonial era through the twentieth century to illustrate that students have always been considered difficult to control. (Suthor/SJL)

This article describes conditions in schooling, particularly the brutality, for boys and girls during the European Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The English philosopher, John Locke, proposed an alternative style and content with regard to the education of the young. Locke's views and their influence are discussed. (IAH)

A review of novels and teacher textbooks from the early 1900s shows an image of teachers far more diverse than the nostalgic one held by many Americans today. Teachers were often young and poorly prepared in academics and pedagogy, and they struggled with disobedient students for control of the school. (KS)

Draws on Isabelle Knockwood's memoir about Mi'kmaw children's experiences in a Nova Scotia boarding school to examine the contradictory impacts of English literacy on American-Indian peoples and cultures. Discusses literacy as a weapon of colonial assimilation and, conversely, the appropriation of literacy within a Mi'kmaw system of knowledge…

Oral and documentary sources describe the buildings, enrollment, academic classes, vocational training, and the networks of social relations comprising the reality of boarding school life for students at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School from 1920-1940. Five former students discuss their impressions of discipline and daily schedules. (NEC)

This is the tenth volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education," which was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This issue contains articles on: Theodore Lyman; State Normal School of Connecticut; drawing in all elementary schools; Pestalozzi, Fellenberg, and Vehrli, and…

The formulation of effective compulsory attendance laws has been one of the problems confronting legislators and school officials for the past 70 years. The most marked advance in enacting such laws has been made since 1890. Prior to that date only 27 States and the District of Columbia had compulsory laws, and many of these were inoperative. Now…

This book combines history with sociology to examines state-supported schools. A description of the pauper schools of the early 1800s shows how they became the foundation for the common schools that followed. The book focuses on the disciplinary and pedagogic practices that public schools utilized in their attempts to regulate and socialize…

The book takes a nostalgic look at one-room schools in the United States Midwest, especially in Illinois, and traces their history from about 1825 to the present. Three chapters present the development of the one-room school from 1825 to the Civil War, from after the Civil War to around 1920, and from 1920 through the Depression and the Second…

This bulletin, entitled "State School Systems: Legislation and Judicial Decisions relating to Public Education, October 1, 1904 to October 1, 1906," was prepared by Professor Edward C. Elliot, of the University of Wisconsin. It is intended to serve a special purpose. The legislatures of forty states will convene on or soon after the 1st…

This bibliography is the ninth similar annual summary of the English literature of education. This bibliography includes books on educational subjects printed in the English language in 1907, important articles on the same topic from the periodicals of 1907, valuable papers published in the transactions of educational societies that bear the…

Published in 1917, this book overviews rural schooling during the early 1900s and was written to address the problems of rural teaching and to serve as an introductory guide for rural teachers. Specifically, the book aimed to bring attention to the needs of rural life and the possible contributions of the rural school, to describe effective…

A society becomes more fully conscious of the importance of giving to all its members the best possible education, it also becomes conscious of the great loss arising from truancy of school children and of the need of finding some better means of dealing with truancy. In all cities and towns, as well as in rural communities, school officers and…