Free Education eBooks : Theory and Practice of Education

Here is a list of online books  about  Theory and Practice of Education in various formats available for free :

• A Framework and Principles for International Comparative Studies in Education, ed. by Norman M. Bradburn and Dorothy M. Gifford (HTML at NAP)
• A Manual of Discipline and Instruction for the Use of the Teachers of the Primary and Grammar Schools Under the Charge of the Department of Public Instruction of the City of New York by New York (New York) Board of Education (page images at MOA)
• A Manual of Elementary Instruction, For the Use of Public and Private Schools and Normal Classes by Edward Austin Sheldon (page images at MOA)
• A Manual on School-Houses and Cottages for the People of the South by C. Thurston Chase (page images at MOA)
• American Education: Its Principles and Elements by Edward Deering Mansfield (page images at MOA)
• A Teacher’s Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms by Peter Bartis and Paddy Bowman (HTML at LOC)
• A Treatise on Pedagogy for Young Teachers by Edwin C. Hewett (HTML at nimbus.org)
• China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC (1987 edition) by Karen Turner-Gottschang and Linda Reed (preliminary HTML at ulib.org)
• Choice in Schooling: A Case for Tuition Vouchers by David W. Kirkpatrick (page images at iuniverse.com)
• Democracy and Education by John Dewey (HTML at Columbia)
• Doing Comparative Education: Three Decades of Collaboration by Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein (HTML in Hong Kong)
• Education by Ellen Gould White (HTML at ellenwhite.org)
• Education and Learning to Think by Lauren B. Resnick (HTML at ulib.org)
• Education: Its Relations to the State and to the Individual, and Its Methods by George Ferdinand Becker (page images at MOA)
• Ending Mandatory Retirement for Tenured Faculty: The Consequences for Higher Education, ed. by P. Brett Hammond and Harriet P. Morgan (page images at NAP)
• Evaluation of “Redesigning the National Assessment of Educational Progress” by National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment (page images at NAP)
• Financing Postsecondary Education: The Federal Role by United States Department of Education (HTML at ed.gov)
• Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young by Jacob Abbott (page images at MOA)
• Graded Course of Instruction for the Public Schools of Chicago (1869 edition) by Chicago Board of Education (page images at MOA)
• Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (page images at MOA)
• How to Teach by Henry Kiddle (page images at MOA)
• Improving America’s Schools: The Role of Incentives, ed. by Eric A. Hanushek and Dale W. Jorgenson (page images at NAP)
• In the School-Room by John S. Hart (page images at MOA)
• Learning from Experience: Evaluating Early Childhood Demonstration Programs, ed. by Jeffrey R. Travers and Richard J. Light (page images at NAP)
• Lecture on the Duties and Relations of Parents, Teachers and Pupils by Charles Davies (page images at MOA)
• Letters From a Father to His Sons in College by Samuel Miller (page images at MOA)
• Plain Educational Talks with Teachers and Parents by Albert Newton Raub (page images at MOA)
• Positions Concerning the Training Up of Children by Richard Mulcaster, ed. by William Barker (HTML at mun.ca)
• Practical Illustrations of the Principles of School Architecture by Henry Barnard (page images at MOA)
• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, ed. by Catherine E. Snow, M. Susan Burns, and Peg Griffin (HTML and page images at NAP)
• Primary Object Lessons for a Graduated Course of Developmentby Norman Allison Calkins (page images at MOA)
• Prisoners of Time: Report of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning by National Education Commission on Time and Learning (HTML at ed.gov)
• Quality in Student Financial Aid Programs: A New Approach, ed. by Ronald S. Fecso (page images at NAP)
• Raising the Educational Achievement of Secondary School Students: An Idea Book by United States Department of Education (HTML with commentary at ed.gov)
• Report of the Committee Appointed by the Board of Public Education to Inquire Into the Sanitary Condition of the Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania, City of Philadelphia by Philadelphia Board of Public Education (page images at MOA)
• Research and Education Reform: Roles for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, ed. by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson (page images at NAP)
• Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science by National Science Resources Center (page images at NAP)
• School Amusements: or, How to Make the School Interesting by Nathanies William Taylor Root (page images at MOA)
• School Architecture: or Contributions to the Improvement of School-Houses in the United States by Henry Barnard (page images at MOA)
• School Choice Programs: What’s Happening in the States by Dorothy B. Hanks (HTML at heritage.org)
• School Funds and School Laws of Michigan by Michigan Department of Public Instruction (page images at MOA)
• School Government by Frederick Swartz Jewell (page images at MOA)
• Schools & Health: Our Nation’s Investment, ed. by Diane Allensworth, Elaine Lawson, Lois Nicholson, and James Wyche (page images and partial HTML at NAP)
• School-Linked Comprehensive Services for Children and Families: What We know and What We Need to Know by United States Department of Education and American Educational Research Association (HTML at ed.gov)
• Science for All Children: A Guide to Improving Elementary Science Education in Your School District by National Science Resources Center (page images at NAP)
• Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke
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• Systemic Reform: Perspectives on Personalizing Education, ed. by Ronald J. Anson (HTML at ed.gov)
• Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals by William James (HTML with commentary at Emory)
• Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality: Policy Issues, Models, and Data Bases, ed. by Erling E. Boe and Dorothy M. Gilford (page images at NAP)
• The Art of Teaching School by Josiah Rhinehart Sypher (page images at MOA)
• The Culture Demanded by Modern Life: A Series of Addresses and Arguments on the Claims of Scientific Education by Edward Livingston Youmans (page images at MOA)
• The Education of the Child by Ellen Key (Gutenberg text)
• The Graded School: A Graded Course of Instruction for Public Schools by William Harvey Wells (page images at MOA)
• The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman (HTML at Fordham)
• The Lawyer in the School-Room by Michael McN. Walsh (page images at MOA)
• The Method of Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at jjnet.com)
• The Normal: or, Methods of Teaching the Common Branches, Orthoepy, Orthography, Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic and Elocution by Alfred Holbrook (page images at MOA)
• The Philosophy of Teaching: The Teacher, the Pupil, the School by Nathaniel Sands (page images at MOA)
• The Relations of Higher Education to National Prosperity by Charles Kendall Adams (page images at MOA)
• The School and Society (1907 edition) by John Dewey (illustrated HTML at Brock)
• The Schoolmaster by Arthur Christopher Benson (Golden Gale archive format)
• The Science of Education, and Art of Teaching by John Ogden (page images at MOA)
• The Scientific Basis of Education by John Hecker (page images at MOA)
• The Teacher: Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott (page images at MOA)
• The Teacher’s Institute: or, Familiar Hints to Young Teachers by William Bentley Fowle (page images at MOA)
• Toward a New Science of Instruction by Kate Maloy (HTML at ed.gov)
• University Education by Henry Philip Tappan (page images at MOA)
• Using Technology to Support Education Reform by Barbara Means, John Blando, Kerry Olson, Teresa Middleton, Catherine Cobb Morocco, Arlene R. Remz, and Judith Zorfass (HTML at ed.gov)
• Volunteers in Public Schools, ed. by Bernard Michael (page images at NAP)