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Political Agendas for Education: From the Christian Coalition To the Green Party

ISBN: 9780805852578 | 0805852573
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau
Pub. Date: 8/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
InPolitical Agendas for Education: From the Religious Right to the Green Party, Third Edition,Joel Spring brings up-to-date his description and analysis of the current educational agendas of major political players and organizations. The focus of this edition is the 2004 presidential campaign and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Spring discusses the ideological perspective of each major political group and how its ideology is represented in No Child Left Behind: *The religious agenda of Republicans who identify themselves as compassionate ... MORE
Prefaceix
1 Compassionate Conservatism and No Child Left Behind: The Republican Educational Agenda for the 21st Century1(27)
Compassionate Conservatism
3(4)
... MORE
Compassionate Conservatism and No Child Left Behind
7(2)
The Republican Party and the Christian Coalition
9(5)
Evolution Versus Creationism
14(3)
The Origins of the School Prayer Section of No Child Left Behind
17(4)
Sex Education and Pornography
21(2)
Multicultural Education
23(2)
Liberal Domination of Education and Culture
25(2)
Conclusion
27(1)
2 Neoconservatism and No Child Left Behind: The Republican Educational Agenda for the 21st Century28(35)
Free Markets and School Choice
29(2)
Planning an Educational Revolution: The Trickle-Down Theory of Ideas and No Child Left Behind
31(3)
The Manhattan Institute and George W. Bush's Presidency
34(5)
Marketing the Educational Revolution: No Child Left Behind
39(6)
The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute: Marketing Racism and School Reform
45(4)
Neoconservatives, Business, and Educational Standards
49(3)
Goals 2000: On the Road to No Child Left Behind
52(2)
Standards and Tests: The Politics of Culture
54(4)
For-Profit and Charter Schools
58(4)
Conclusion
62(1)
3 New Democrats and No Child Left Behind63(28)
The New Democrats
64(4)
The Democratic Road to No Child Left Behind: Bill Clinton and the New Democrats
68(9)
Reinventing Government and Schools: The Democratic Road to No Child Left Behind
77(3)
The Democratic Road to No Child Left Behind: Al Gore and the 2000 Presidential Campaign
80(1)
New Democrats' Support of No Child Left Behind: Did George W. Bush Steal Their Agenda?
81(2)
No Child Left Behind, John Kerry, and the 2004 Presidential Campaign
83(5)
Conclusion: Is No Child Left Behind a Political Pipe Dream?
88(3)
4 What's Left of the Left? Ralph Nader, the Green Party, the Rainbow Coalition, and the National Organization for Women91(23)
Ralph Nader, Consumerism, and Education
93(3)
Nader's 2004 Campaign
96(1)
Nader and No Child Left Behind
97(2)
The 2004 Green Party and No Child Left Behind
99(3)
The Rainbow Coalition
102(4)
The National Organization for Women and the Feminist Majority
106(6)
Conclusion: What's Left of the Left?
112(2)
5 Putting It Together114(3)
Notes117(16)
Author Index133(4)
Subject Index137

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