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AMERICAN EDUCATION

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ISBN: 9780070605749 | 0070605742
Edition: 8th
Publisher: MCG
Pub. Date: 1/1/1998

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
"Clear, concise, and authoritative, American Education brings issues and challenging perspectives to teacher educators' classrooms. Revised every two years, the text provides an up-to-date introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.
PREFACExiii(4)
A GUIDE TO WEB SITES IN EDUCATIONxvii
Part One THE SCHOOL AND THE SOCIAL ORDER3(168)
Chapter 1 The Purposes of Public Schooling
3... MORE
Should There Be Public Goals for Education?
3(3)
The Political Purposes of Schooling
6(6)
The Social Purposes of Schooling
12(6)
The Economic Purposes of Schooling
18(2)
The Economic Purposes of Schooling in a Global Economy
20(3)
Human Capital and the Role of Business in American Education
23(3)
Political Attitudes and Education
26(1)
Exercises
27(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
28(3)
Chapter 2 The Profession of Teaching
31(24)
Teacher Education in a Global Economy
32(2)
Control Through Testing: National Licensing and Certification
34(2)
National Licensing
36(1)
National Certification
36(2)
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
38(1)
Career Ladders and Salary Increases
39(1)
Should Teachers Be Trained to "Teach to the Test"?
40(1)
The Professionalization of Teaching
41(3)
Teacher Education
44(3)
The Rewards of Teaching and Working Conditions
47(1)
The Working Conditions of Teachers
48(3)
Conclusion
51(1)
Exercises
52(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
52(3)
Chapter 3 Teachers' Unions and Teacher Politics
55(23)
Differences Between the Two Unions
56(1)
A Brief History of the National Education Association (NEA)
57(3)
A Brief History of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
60(2)
The NEA and AFT Today
62(3)
One Big Union: The Merger of the NEA and AFT
65(1)
A Case Study of the President of a Local Teachers' Union
66(6)
Salaries and Teacher Strikes
72(3)
Exercises
75(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
75(3)
Chapter 4 The Social Structure and American Education
78(1)
Equality of Opportunity
78(5)
Social-Class Differences in Education
83(4)
Education and Income
87(1)
Savage Inequalities
88(5)
The New Job Market
93(2)
Savage Inequalities, the Job Market, and the Global Economy
95(1)
Ending Savage Inequalities
96(2)
Social Reproduction
98(1)
Should Tracking and Ability Grouping Be Abolished?
99(1)
Resistance
100(2)
Parental Involvement
102(1)
Exercises
103(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
103
Chapter 5 Equality of Opportunity
79(67)
Equality of Educational Opportunity and Equality of Opportunity
108(1)
Racism and Education
109(5)
Desegregation of American Schools
114(1)
Integration: Magnet Schools and Choice
115(1)
The Results of Desegregation
116(1)
Second-Generation Segregation
117(2)
Second-Generation Segregation and Political Power
119(1)
Black Suburbia
120(7)
Native Americans
127(1)
Mexican-Americans
128(2)
Asian-Americans
130(16)
Chapter 6 Multicultural Education
146(25)
The New Immigrants
148(4)
Dominated Cultures
152(2)
Ethnocentric Education
154(3)
Issues of Language
157(4)
Bicultural Education
161(1)
Multicultural Education
162(2)
Conclusion
164(1)
Exercises
164(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
165(6)
Part Two POWER AND CONTROL IN AMERICAN EDUCATION171(118)
Chapter 7 Local Control, Choice, Charter Schools, and Privatization
171(24)
Who Should Control Knowledge in a Democratic Society?
172(1)
Representation and School Boards
173(2)
Community Power and School Board Politics
175(3)
Site-Based Management of Schools
178(1)
Choice
178(4)
Charter Schools
182(3)
For-Profit Schools and Privatization of Public Schools
185(4)
The Educational Bureaucracy
189(1)
Conclusion
190(1)
Exercises
191(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
191(4)
Chapter 8 Power and Control at the State Level
195(16)
The Organization of State Systems of Education
196(3)
Business and Teachers' Unions in State Politics
199(1)
State Education Reform
200(1)
The Politics of State Education
201(2)
The Nationalization of State Policies
203(1)
Should States Have Compulsary-Education Laws?
203(5)
Conclusion
208(1)
Exercises
209(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
209(2)
Chapter 9 Power and Control at the National Level
211(17)
Methods of Federal Control
212(6)
The Politics of Education at the National Level
218(3)
Private Foundations
221(2)
Accrediting Associations
223(2)
Conclusion
225(1)
Exercises
225(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
226(2)
Chapter 10 Textbooks, Curriculum, and Instruction
228(28)
Textbooks
230(5)
Tests
235(1)
National Standards and the Political Nature of Knowledge
236(4)
Curriculum
240(6)
Instruction
246(4)
Critical Pedagogy
250(3)
Conclusion
253(1)
Exercises
253(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
253(3)
Chapter 11 The Courts and the Schools
256(33)
Compulsion and Religion
258(4)
School Prayer, Bible Reading, and Meditation
262(2)
Public Aid to Private School Students
264(2)
Secular Humanism and the Religion of Public Schools
266(3)
Evolution and Creationism
269(1)
Parents' Rights
270(1)
Teachers' Rights
271(4)
The Liability of Teachers
275(1)
Teachers' Private Lives
275(2)
Students' Rights
277(3)
Schooling as a Property Right
280(1)
Do School Authorities Have the Right to Beat Children?
281(2)
The Language of the Schools
283(1)
School Finances
284(2)
Exercises
286(1)
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
287(2)
INDEX289
Joel Spring is currently a professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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