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The American School, 1642-1996

ISBN: 9780070605602 | 0070605602
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Pub. Date: 6/1/1997

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Table of Contents
PREFACExiii
Chapter 1 Thinking Critically about History: Ideological Management and the Culture Wars
1(4)
Chapter 2 Religion and Authority in Colonial America
... MORE(27)
Chapter 3 The Ghost Dance and the Schooling of Native Americans
32(20)
Chapter 4 Nationalism, Moral Reform, and Charity in the New Republic
52(27)
Chapter 5 The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism
79(17)
Chapter 6 The Ideology and Politics of the Common School
96(27)
Chapter 7 Organizing the American School: The Nineteenth-Century Schoolmarm
123(33)
Chapter 8 Education as Deculturalization: Native Americans and Puerto Ricans
156(19)
Chapter 9 Education and Segregation: Asian Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans
175(23)
Chapter 10 Schooling and the New Corporate Order
198(22)
Chapter 11 Education and Human Capital
220(32)
Chapter 12 Meritocracy: The Experts Take Charge
252(29)
Chapter 13 The Politics of Education
281(20)
Chapter 14 Big Bird: Movies, Radio, and Television Join Schools as Public Educators
301(37)
Chapter 15 Education and National Policy
338(20)
Chapter 16 The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars
358(27)
Chapter 17 Conservatism and the Culture Wars at the End of the Century
385(26)
INDEX411

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