Book excerpt: Preschool, primary school, Private school, proficiency testing, programmed instruction, progressive education, property tax, Protestantism, public school, public school finances, Puritanism, race/racism, reading, reasoning skills, Reconstruction, Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), Revolutionary War, Roman Catholic Church, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, rural education, Scholastic Assessment Tests (SATs), school board, school/college partnership programs, science, Scopes Monkey Trail, secondary education, segregation, self-education, separate but equal doctrine, settlement house, slavery, social problems and education, Socratic method, special education, specialized institution of higher education, standardized test, Stanford Binet Intelligence Test, teacher education, teacher salaries, teacher training, teacher unions, teaching method, teaching the test, team teaching, television, Lewis M. Terman, tests, textbook, tracking, United States Department of Education, Vietnam War, violence, vocational education, vo-tech (vocational/technical) school, War on Poverty, Booker T. Washington, Noah Webster, women teachers, women's education, women's rights, World War I, World War II, writing, etc.