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Description

This current, comprehensive history of American education is designed to stimulate critical analysis and critical thinking by offering alternative interpretations of each historical period. The point of view taken by this text emphasizes 1) the role of multiculturalism and cultural domination in shaping U.S. schools, 2) the position of the school as one of many institutions that manage the distribution of ideas in society, 3) racism as a central issue in U.S. history and U.S. educational history, and 4) economic issues as an important factor in understanding the evolution of U.S. schools.

Table of Contents

1 Thinking Critically about History: Ideological Management, Culture Wars, and Consumerism

2 Religion and Authority in Colonial Education

3 Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic

4 The Ideology and Politics of the Common School

5 The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism

6 Organizing the American School: The Nineteenth-Century Schoolmarm

7 Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal

8 Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools: School Showers, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, Home Economics, Social Centers, and Cultural Conflict

9 The School and the Workplace: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education

10 Meritocracy: The Experts Take Charge

11 The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers Unions, the American Legion, and the American Way

12 Schools, Media, and Popular Culture: Influencing the Minds of Children and Teenagers

13 Education and National Policy

14 The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars

15 Education in the Twenty-First Century

About the Authors

Joel Spring received his Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently a Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His great-great-grandfather was the first Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and his grandfather, Joel S. Spring, was a local district chief at the time Indian Territory became Oklahoma. He currently teaches at Queens College of the City University of New York. His major research interests are history of education, multicultural education, Native American culture, the politics of education, global education, and human rights education. He is the author of over twenty books and the most recent are How Educational Ideologies are Shaping Global Society; Education and the Rise of the Global Economy; The Universal Right to Education: Justification, Definition, and Guidelines; Globalization and Educational Rights; and Educating the Consumer Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media.

New Features

New coverage addresses the “No Child Left Behind” legislation, home economics and the creation of consumerist culture, environmental education, propaganda and free speech in schools, textbook censorship, and African American education.

The text has been reorganized to offer a stronger chronological approach. Topically oriented chapters from the previous edition have been folded into relevant chronological/historical chapters throughout the text.

The streamlined new edition is now more manageable in length.

The text includes updated and new timelines of citizenship and education, and new photos that illustrate important events in the history of American education.