Foundations of Education

 

A Nation at Risk!

A Nation at Risk:  the Imperative for Educational Reform (April 1983)
Index: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html
 Introduction
A Nation At Risk
Findings
Recommendations

Twenty Years after "A Nation at Risk"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0422/p13s02-lepr.html

Readings in American Culture

Jonathan Edwards

"Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God"
http://www.jonathanedwards.com/sermons/Warnings/sinners.htm

John H Gerstner
"Jonathan Edwards' Place in the History of Christian Thought"
http://www.jonathanedwards.com/text/jgedwards.htm

Benjamin Franklin

"How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia"
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/franklin_how.html

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (2003)
"Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of America" chapter one, pages 1-4)

Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of Independence

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html
A History of the Declaration of Independence
http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_history.html

 
Walt Whitman

Song of Myself
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/whitman/song.htm

U.S.Demographics

http://www.census.gov/population/

 

Michigan Curriculum Framework (see Michigan teacher Network)

Index    index
English   english
Mathematics  mathematics
Science   science
Social Studies   social studies
Michigan Teacher Network
http://mtn.merit.edu/
see "Curriculum Subjects" for content standards of the Michigan Curriculum Framework