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== Further reading ==
Benavot, Aaron, and Julia Resnik. "Lessons from the past: A comparative socio-historical analysis of primary and secondary education". in Joel Colton et al. eds. Educating all children: A global agenda (2006): 123–229. online
Connell, W. F. ed. A History of Education in the Twentieth Century World (1981), 478pp; global coverage
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson. The History of Education: Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization (1920) [The history of education:  educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of Western civilization online]
Foght, H.W. ed. Comparative education (1918), compares the United States, England, Germany, France, Canada, and Denmark online
Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson, Rebecca, ed. World Education Encyclopedia: a survey of educational systems worldwide (Gage, 4 vol 2002)
Palmer, Joy A., et al. eds. Fifty Major Thinkers on Education: From Confucius to Dewey (2001)
Palmer, Joy A. ed. Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (2001)
Peterson, Penelope et al. eds. International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd ed. 8 vol 2010) comprehensive coverage for every nation
Pink, M. Alderton. Procrustes; or, the future of English education United States: E. P. Dutton & Company, (1927)
Watson Foster, ed. The Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Education (London: 1921, 4 vol) online free; global coverage

=== Asia ===
Dharampal. (1983). The beautiful tree: Indigenous Indian education in the eighteenth century. New Delhi: Biblia Impex.
Elman, Benjamin A., and Alexander Woodside. Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600–1900 (U of California Press, 1994)
Ghosh, Suresh Chandra. The history of education in modern India, 1757-1998 (Orient Longman, 2000)
Lee, Thomas H. C. Education in traditional China: a history (2000)
Jayapalan N. History Of Education In India (2005) excerpt and text search
Price, Ronald Francis. Education in modern China (Routledge, 2014)
Sharma, Ram Nath. History of education in India (1996) excerpt and text search
Swarup, Ram (1971). The Hindu view of education. New Delhi. Aditya Prakashan.

=== Europe ===
Anderson, Robert David. European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914. (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Begley, Ronald B. and Joseph W. Koterski. Medieval Education (2005)
Bowen, James. A History of Western Education: Vol 3: The Modern West, Europe and the New World. (2003). vol 2 online; also vol 3 online
Boyd, William, and Edmund J. King. The History of Western Education. (11th ed, 1975) online
Butts, R. Freeman. A Cultural History of Western Education: Its Social and Intellectual Foundations (2nd ed. 1955)
Cook, T. G. The History of Education in Europe (1974)
Cubberley, Ellwood. The history of education (1920) online Strong on European developments
Graff, Harvey J. The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (1987) from Middle Ages to the present
Hoyer, Timo. Sozialgeschichte der Erziehung. Von der Antike bis in die Moderne. [Social History of Education. From Ancient to Modern Age] (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt, 2015)
Lawson, John, and Harold Silver. A social history of education in England (Routledge, 2013)
McCulloch, Gary. The Struggle for the History of Education (2011), Focus on Britain excerpt; Chapter 1 covers historiography.
McCulloch, Gary. Historical Research in Educational Settings (2000); Textbook on how to write British educational history. excerpt; Good bibliography
Ringer, Fritz. Education and Society in Modern Europe (1979); focuses on Germany and France with comparisons to the US and Britain
Soysal, Yasemin Nuhoglu; Strang, David (1989). "Construction of the First Mass Education Systems in Nineteenth-Century Europe". Sociology of Education. 62 (4): 277–88. doi:10.2307/2112831. JSTOR 2112831.
Sturt, Mary. The education of the people: A history of primary education in England and Wales in the nineteenth century (Routledge, 2013)
Toloudis, Nicholas. Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam: Public Education, State Centralization, and Teacher Unionism in France and the United States (Temple University Press, 2012) 213, pp. *Sorin-Avram, Virtop (2015). "Romanian Contemporary Approaches to the Continuous Training of History and Geography Teachers". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 197: 1774–81. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.235.
Tröhler, Daniel. Curriculum history or the educational construction of Europe in the long nineteenth century. European Educational Research Journal 15(3):279-297. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317002808_Curriculum_history_or_the_educational_construction_of_Europe_in_the_long_nineteenth_century
Wardle, David. English Popular Education 1780–1970 (Cambridge UP, 1970)
Whitehead, Barbara J., ed. Women's education in early modern Europe: a history, 1500–1800 (1999); specialized topics

=== United States ===

Cremin, Lawrence A. American Education: The Colonial Experience, 1607–1783 (1970); American Education: The National Experience, 1783–1876. (1980); American Education: The Metropolitan Experience, 1876–1980 (1990); standard 3 vol detailed scholarly history
Goldstein, Dana. The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (2014)
Herbst, Juergen. The once and future school: Three hundred and fifty years of American secondary education (1996).
Parkerson Donald H., and Jo Ann Parkerson. Transitions in American education: a social history of teaching (2001) online
Reese, William J. America's Public Schools: From the Common School to No Child Left Behind (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2005)
Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education (2011) online

=== Historiography ===
Fuchs, Eckhardt, et al. The Transnational in the History of Education: Concepts and Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). excerpt
Gaither, Milton, "The Revisionists Revived: The Libertarian Historiography of Education", History of Education Quarterly 52 (Nov. 2012), 488–505.
Goodman, Joyce, and Ian Grosvenor. "Educational research—history of education a curious case?" Oxford Review of Education 35:5, pp. 601–616.
Herbst, Jurgen. "The history of education: state of the art at the turn of the century in Europe and North America". Paedagogica Historica 35.3 (1999): 737–747.
King, Kelley. "How Educational Historians Establish Relevance", American Educational History Journal (2014) 41#1/2, pp. 1–19.
Henry Bompas Smith (1913), Education as the Training of Personality: an inaugural lecture (1st ed.), Manchester: Manchester University Press, Wikidata Q19092326

== External links ==
James Sullivan (1920). "Education, History of" . Encyclopedia Americana.
A student's history of education, by Frank Pierrepont Graves (1869-1956).