Joel Spring,
Queens College, City University of New York
ISBN: 0072875666 Copyright year: 2005
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Thinking Critically about History: Ideological Management, Culture Wars, and Consumerism
Chapter 2: Religion and Authority in Colonial Education
Chapter 3: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic
Chapter 4: The Ideology and Politics of the Common School
Chapter 5: The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism
Chapter 6: Organizing the American School: The Nineteenth-Century Schoolmarm
Chapter 7: Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal
Chapter 8: Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools: School Showers, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, Home Economics, Social Centers, and Cultural Conflict
Chapter 9: The School and the Workplace: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education
Chapter 10: Meritocracy: The Experts Take Charge
Chapter 11: The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers Unions, the American Legion, and the American Way
Chapter 12: Schools, Media, and Popular Culture: Influencing the Minds of Children and Teenagers
Chapter 13: Education and National Policy
Chapter 14: The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars
Chapter 15: Education in the Twenty-First Century
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