Rent 9780807749470 | Public Education - America's Civil Religion : A Social History

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The author traces America's unquestioning faith in the capacity of public education to solve all of our social, economic, and political problems civil from before the civil war up to the No Child Left Behind legislation and discusses how this faith in education often makes it difficult for Americans to think realistically about the capacities and limitations of public schooling.

Introduction: An American Faith	p. 1
The United States and Schooling	p. 1
The Creed of Education	p. 3
Plan of the Book	p. 8
Religions, Political and Civil	p. 10
Rousseau and the Origins of the Concept of Civil Religion	p. 10
Durkheim's Contribution	p. 11
Political and Civil Religions	p. 13
Bellah and American Civil Religion	p... MORE. 15
Before Progressivism: Belief in Education in a Divided Nation	p. 21
Early American Schooling and Religion	p. 21
Education and Belief in the New Nation	p. 22
Growth of the Common Schools	p. 27
Regionalism and Localism: The Limits to Nationwide Schooling	p. 34
Public Education in the Progressive Era	p. 40
The Prelude to Progressive Education: Spread of Schooling in the South	p. 40
Immigration and Americanization Through Schooling	p. 42
The Schools and the Cult of the Nation	p. 47
Faith, Science, and the Nation in Progressive Schooling	p. 51
The Beginning of Active Federal Involvement	p. 59
Schools at the Center of Civil Religion	p. 61
Public Schooling Between World Wars: Management, Design, and Varieties of the Faith	p. 62
Schools in an Industrial Society: A Commitment to Organization	p. 62
Traditional and Progressive Ideologies in the Interwar Period	p. 65
Education for Patriotism and Social Prophylaxis	p. 66
Faith in Social Education: Intimations of Things to Come	p. 70
The Single Faith of Traditional and Progressive Educators	p. 74
After World War II: The Education Boom, Cold War, and Growing Calls for Equality	p. 77
The Postwar Attention to Education	p. 77
Education in the Economic Superpower	p. 79
Government Sends America to School	p. 86
The City on a Hill as Citadel of Freedom	p. 90
The New Emphasis on Equal Opportunity	p. 97
The Post-World War II Years: An End and a Beginning	p. 102
Education for Equality and Education as Redistribution in the 1960s and 1970s	p. 103
A Turning Point in the Faith	p. 103
The War on Poverty and the New Assimilation	p. 114
The Educational Front in the War on Poverty	p. 115
Equality, the Judiciary, and the Schools	p. 123
Impact of the Crisis in American Faith in Education	p. 129
Anxiety and Standards: A Nation at Risk and the Equity-Excellence Dilemma in the 1980s and 1990s	p. 131
Lamenting the Quality of Education	p. 131
The Threat of Decline and the Quest for Renewal	p. 137
Globalization and the Japanese Threat	p. 139
The Equity and Excellence Dilemma	p. 141
Where All the Children Are Above Average: Entering the 21st Century	p. 146
No Child Left Behind	p. 146
The Professional Reaction to No Child Left Behind	p. 153
Mandating Equal Education in an Unequal Society	p. 154
2001 and the Renewal of Civil Solidarity	p. 161
A 21st-Century Civil Religion	p. 164
Conclusion: American Civil Religion and the Schools	p. 166
Development and Nature of the Faith	p. 166
Problems and Paradoxes	p. 172
References	p. 179
Index	p. 191
About the Authors	p. 205
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Carl L. Bankston III is professor and chair in the Department of Sociology and co-director of the Asian Studies Program at Tulane University. Stephen J. Caldas is professor of education in the Department of Foundations, Leadership, and Policy Studies at Hofstra University.

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