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Internet Sites:

• Brown v. Board of Education Online Archive
“This archive contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.” Developed by the University of Michigan Library.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/exhibits/brownarchive/index.html

• Brown At 50: King’s Dream or Plessy’s Nightmare? (January 2004)
“This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Courts 1991 Dowell decision, which authorized a return to neighborhood schools, even if that would create segregation, through the 2001-2002 school year.” Produced by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/reseg04/brown50.pdf

• School: The Story of American Public Education
A web companion to the PBS documentary that chronicles the development of public education from the 1770’s to the 21st century.
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/

• Slates, Sliderules, and Software: Teaching Math in America
This site from the National Museum of American History examines the use of technology in math instruction from the early 1800’s to the present.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/teachingmath/html/101.htm

• Bibliography of the History of American Education
This bibliography, created by Professor Herbst at University of Wisconsin-Madison, includes a collection of general works on the history of education and resources organized by time period.
http://www.zzbw.uni-hannover.de/HerbstStart.htm

• Education in the 20th Century: Some Selected Moments
This is a non-comprehensive site about education during the 20th century, organized by decades. It includes a short description of a variety of ‘educational episodes’ that took place in that period.”
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/index.html
 

Online Communities:

• H-Education
H-Education seeks to link participants with shared interests in the history of education, broadly defined as a recognized field covering both formal and informal institutions and processes regarding teaching and learning.
Subscribe to this list at the following URL: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/lists/subscribe.cgi?list=H-Education
 

Organizations:

• History of Education Society
History of Education Quarterly
220 McKay Education Building
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA 16057
http://www.sru.edu/depts/scc/hes/hes.htm