Joel Spring,
Queens College, City University of New York
ISBN: 0072875666 Copyright year: 2005
Features
This text provides a point-of-view history of American education with alternative interpretations of each historical period. Designed to stimulate critical analysis, the text examines cultural domination and racism as shaping forces of U.S. schools.
Detailed educational histories of cultural minorities help students understand the development of American education from the perspective of other cultures.
The history of education is presented as part of the larger history of the dissemination of knowledge and power in society.
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