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The American School 1642 - 2004

ISBN: 9780072875669 | 0072875666
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 5/21/2004

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SummaryTable of Contents
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... MORE
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List of Time Lines
xi
Prefacexiii
Thinking Critically about History: Ideological Management, Culture Wars, and Consumerism
1(8)
There Is No Correct or Right Interpretation of History
2(1)
Thematic Time Lines
2(1)
My Perspective on Educational History
2(1)
Cultural Domination as a Central Theme in Educational History
3(1)
Schools as One Form of Ideological Management
4(1)
The Role of Racism in U.S. History and in the History of Public Schools
5(1)
Economic Issues in Public School History
6(1)
Consumerism and Environmental Education
7(2)
Religion and Authority in Colonial Education
9(35)
The Role of Education in Colonial Society
10(2)
Authority and Social Status in Colonial New England
12(7)
Colonialism and Educational Policy
19(1)
Language and Cultural Domination
20(2)
Native Americans: Education as Cultural Imperialism
22(3)
Early Native American Educational Programs
25(2)
Enslaved Africans: Atlantic Creoles
27(1)
Enslaved Africans: The Plantation System
27(2)
The Idea of Secular Education: Freedom of Thought and the Establishment of Academies
29(4)
Benjamin Franklin and Education as Social Mobility
33(3)
The Family and the Child
36(4)
Conclusion
40(4)
Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic
44(29)
Noah Webster: Nationalism and the Creation of a Dominant Culture
48(2)
Thomas Jefferson: A Natural Aristocracy
50(3)
Moral Reform and Faculty Psychology
53(2)
Charity Schools, the Lancasterian System, and Prisons
55(6)
Institutional Change and the American College
61(6)
Public versus Private Schools
67(1)
Conclusion: Continuing Issues in American Education
68(5)
The Ideology and Politics of the Common School
73(29)
The Ideology of the Common School Movement
75(9)
Workingmen and the Struggle for a Republican Education
84(3)
The Whigs and the Democrats
87(4)
The Birth of the High School
91(1)
The Continuing Debate about the Common School Ideal
92(5)
Conclusion
97(5)
The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism
102(32)
Irish Catholics: A Threat to Anglo-American Schools and Culture
103(5)
Slavery and Freedom in the North: African Americans and Schools in the New Republic
108(2)
Racial Segregation
110(1)
Boston and the Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity
111(3)
Learning in the Plantation System
114(1)
Native Americans
115(3)
The Ghost Dance: The Educational Dilemma for Native Americans
118(1)
The Civilization Act
119(1)
Native Americans, Education, and Social Class
120(2)
The Missionary Educators
122(2)
Language and Native American Cultures
124(2)
Education and the Trail of Tears
126(4)
Conclusion
130(4)
Organizing the American School: The Nineteenth-Century Schoolmarm
134(34)
The American Teacher
136(9)
The Maternal Model of Instruction
145(5)
The Evolution of the Bureaucratic Model
150(7)
McGuffey's Readers and the Spirit of Capitalism
157(5)
Female Teachers Civilize the West
162(3)
Conclusion
165(3)
Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal
168(38)
Mexican Americans: Race and Citizenship
168(3)
Segregation, Language, and Mexican American Education
171(4)
Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation
175(2)
Asian American Citizenship
177(2)
Education of the Coolie and Deviant
179(3)
Native American Citizenship
182(1)
Educational Racism and Deculturalization
183(1)
Native Americans: Reservations and Boarding Schools
184(5)
Citizenship for African Americans
189(2)
The Fourteenth Amendment: Citizenship and Education
191(1)
The Great Crusade for Literacy
192(5)
Issues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship
197(1)
Puerto Rican American Educational Issues
198(4)
Conclusion: Setting the Stage for the Great Civil Rights Movement
202(4)
Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools: School Showers, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, Home Economics, Social Centers, and Cultural Conflict
206(37)
Integrated Time Line
207(1)
The Kindergarten Movement
208(3)
Home Economics: Education of the New Consumer Woman
211(4)
School Cafeterias, the American Cuisine, and Processed Foods
215(4)
The Play Movement
219(2)
Summer School
221(1)
Social Centers
222(2)
The New Culture Wars
224(2)
Resisting Segregation: African Americans
226(1)
The Second Crusade for Black Education
227(2)
Resisting Segregation: Mexican Americans
229(2)
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
231(2)
Native American Boarding Schools
233(1)
Resisting Discrimination: Asian Americans
234(2)
Educational Resistance in Puerto Rico
236(2)
Conclusion
238(5)
The School and the Workplace: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education
243(43)
The High School
244(11)
Vocational Education, Vocational Guidance, and the Junior High School
255(8)
Public Benefit or Corporate Greed?
263(8)
Adapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Herbart, Dewey, and Thorndike
271(10)
Conclusion: The Meaning of Equality of Opportunity
281(5)
Meritocracy: The Experts Take Charge
286(31)
Meritocracy and Efficient Management
288(9)
Measurement, Democracy, and the Superiority of Anglo-Americans
297(6)
``Backward'' Children and Special Classrooms
303(1)
The University and Meritocracy
304(8)
Conclusion
312(1)
Integrated Time Line
313(4)
The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers Unions, the American Legion, and the American Way
317(29)
Keep the Schools Out of Politics: The Politics of Education
317(2)
The Politics of Professionalism: Teachers versus Administrators
319(4)
The Rise of the National Education Association
323(3)
The Political Changes of the Depression Years
326(8)
The Politics of Ideological Management: The American Legion
334(1)
Selling the ``American Way'' in Schools and on Billboards
335(2)
Propaganda and Free Speech in the Schools
337(2)
Textbook Censorship and the American Way
339(1)
Rugg and Advertising
340(3)
Conclusion
343(3)
Schools, Media, and Popular Culture: Influencing the Minds of Children and Teenagers
346(29)
Educators and the Movies
348(6)
The Production Code: Movies as Educators
354(1)
Should Commercial Radio or Educators Determine National Culture?
355(5)
Creating the Super Hero for Children's Radio
360(4)
Controlling the Influence of Comic Books
364(2)
Educating Children as Consumers
366(2)
The Creation of Teenage Markets
368(2)
Conclusion
370(5)
Education and National Policy
375(30)
The Cold War and National Educational Policy
377(5)
Ideological Management: Anticommunism
382(2)
Back to the Basics: Scholars and Conservatives Take Charge
384(3)
The National Defense Education Act
387(2)
The War on Poverty
389(5)
Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street
394(8)
Conclusion
402(3)
The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars
405(36)
School Desegregation
406(3)
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
409(2)
Native Americans
411(2)
Indian Education: A National Tragedy
413(2)
Asian Americans: Educating the Model Minority
415(2)
Asian Americans: Language and the Continued Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity
417(2)
Hispanic/Latino Americans
419(2)
Bilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued
421(3)
Multicultural Education, Immigration, and the Culture Wars
424(4)
Schools and the Women's Movement
428(1)
Children with Special Needs
429(2)
The Coloring of Textbook Town
431(4)
Liberating the Textbook Town Housewife for More Consumption
435(1)
Conclusion: The Cold War and Civil Rights
436(5)
Education in the Twenty-First Century
441(1)
The Religious Right and School Prayer
441(2)
Environmental Education: The Radical Paradigm
443(5)
The Nixon Administration and the Conservative Reaction
448(2)
Accountability and the Increasing Power of the Standardized Test
450(2)
The Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Years: National Standards, Choice, and Savage Inequalities
452(4)
The End of the Common School: Choice, Privatization, and Charter Schools
456(5)
No Child Left Behind: Testing and the Continuation of the Culture Wars
461(2)
The Commercialization of Schools and Education for Consumption
463(1)
Consumer Education
464(2)
Fast-Food Education
466(5)
Textbooks: Environmentalism as the New Enemy
471(1)
Conclusion
472
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