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List of topics based on the PBS School documentary

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Nicholas Lemann, James D. Anderson, Diane Ravitch, Chester Finn, Carl Kaestle, E. D. Hirsch
 * Schools and citizenship
 * American common schools
 * Hornbook
 * The New England Primer
 * Protestantism and education
 * Protestant catechism
 * Noah Webster
 * Blue Backed Speller
 * Thomas Jefferson and education
 * Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge (Act to Establish Public Schools)
 * Education during the Slave Period
 * Horace Mann (Whig Party and education)
 * American rural schools
 * One-room school
 * State school
 * History of immigration to the United States
 * John Hughes (archbishop of New York) (History of Catholic education in the United States, City Hall debates?)
 * New York Public School Society (New York City Board of Education)
 * Philadelphia Nativist Riots (Bible Riots)
 * Frederick Douglass
 * Roberts v. Boston (Abiel Smith School, possibly new article on "Document HS I-14: The Legislature Takes Action: Massachusetts Chapter 256, Desegregating Public Schools, 1855")
 * Catharine Beecher ("teaching as a woman's moral calling", an elite who made teaching acceptable for women)
 * McGuffey Readers
 * "Exhibitions" in schools
 * History of the spelling bee
 * Native American boarding schools