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American Education

by: Spring, Joel H.

American Education

by: Spring, Joel H.

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9780072558845
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0072558849
Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/01/2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
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Summary

"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.

PREFACE

Part I SCHOOL AND SOCIETY

1 The Purposes of Public Schooling

(28)

The Public Benefits of Schools

(1)

Are Schools Always a Public Good?

(1)

History and the Goals of Schooling

(2)

The Political Goals of Schooling

(6)

The Social Goals of Schooling

(5)

The Economic Goals of Schooling

(5)

Human Capital and the Role of Business in American Education

(1)

Issues about Human Capitalism

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

(3)

2 Education and Equality of Opportunity

(32)

The Common School Model

(1)

The Sorting Machine

(3)

The High-Stakes Testing Model

(2)

Education and Income

(1)

Gender, Educational Attainment, and Income

(1)

Closing the Gap Between Men's and Women's Incomes

(1)

Race, Educational Attainment, and Income

(1)

Are Students Treated Equally?: The Issue of Social Class

(2)

Education, Social Class, and School Districts

(1)

Education, Social Class, and Real Estate Brokers

(1)

Shopping for a Public School

(2)

Savage Inequalities

(3)

Central City Schools

(1)

Social Class and "At-Risk Students"

(2)

Poverty Among School-Aged Children

(1)

The End of the American Dream: School Dropouts

(1)

Tracking and Ability Grouping

(2)

Should Tracking and Ability Grouping Be Abolished?

(1)

Social Reproduction

(1)

Resistance

(2)

Parental Involvement

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

(2)

3 Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs

(32)

The Law, Race, and Equality of Educational Opportunity

(2)

The Meaning of Race

(2)

What Race Am I?: Racial and Cultural Self Identification

(1)

Race and Social Class

(2)

The Economics of Racism

(1)

Defining Racism

(1)

Race, Social Class, and Equal Educational Opportunities

(2)

Teaching About Racism

(2)

The Future of Desegregation

(1)

Second-Generation Segregation

(1)

The Recent Struggle for Equal Education for Women

(1)

Sexism and Education

(5)

Students with Disabilities

(1)

Public Law 94-142: Education for All Handicapped Children Act

(1)

Writing an IEP

(1)

Which Children Have Disabilities?

(1)

Integrating Children with Disabilities into the Regular Classroom

(1)

An Inclusion Success Story

(1)

The Inclusion Debate

(2)

President George W. Bush's Commission on Excellence in Special Education

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

(3)

4 Student Diversity

(29)

Is It Hispanic or Latino?

(1)

The Changing Population of U.S. Schools

(1)

Educational Experiences of Immigrants to the United States

100

(2)

Immigrant Languages

102

(3)

Are U.S. Teachers Prepared for Language Diversity?

105

(1)

Mexican American Students and U.S. Schools

106

(5)

Asian American Students and U.S. Schools

111

(5)

Native American Students and U.S. Schools

116

(6)

Conclusion

122

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

122

(2)

5 Multicultural Education

124

(23)

Dominated Cultures: John Ogbu

125

(2)

Empowerment Through Multicultural Education: James Banks, Sonia Nieto, and Critical Pedagogy

127

(2)

Educating for Economic Power: Lisa Delpit

129

(1)

Ethnocentric Education

130

(3)

Bilingual Education and English Language Acquisition: No Child Left Behind

133

(4)

English Language Acquisition Act of 2001

137

(1)

Bicultural Education: Is This the Answer?

138

(2)

Globalization: Language and Cultural Rights

140

(2)

Conclusion

142

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

143

(4)

Part II POWER AND CONTROL IN AMERICAN EDUCATION

6 Local Control, Choice, Charter Schools, and Commercialism

147

(31)

The Education Chair

147

(1)

School Boards

148

(2)

Who Knows Their School Board Members?

150

(2)

Educational Bureaucracy

152

(1)

Site-Based Management

153

(2)

Home Schooling

155

(3)

School Choice

158

(3)

National Public School Choice Plan: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

161

(1)

Public-Private Choice Plan: The State of Ohio's Pilot Project Scholarship Program

162

(1)

Charter Schools

162

(4)

"Do Charter Schools Measure Up?": 2002 Report of the American Federation of Teachers

166

(1)

For-Profit Schools and Charters

167

(2)

Edison Schools Inc.: A Tale of an Education Company in Search of Profit

169

(3)

Commercialism in Schools

172

(2)

Conclusion

174

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

174

(4)

7 Power and Control at the State and National Levels: High-Stakes Testing, School Violence, the Reading and Math Wars, and Private Foundations

178

(28)

Local, State, and Federal School Revenues

179

(1)

Categorical Aid: The Source of Federal Power

180

(3)

Increasing State Involvement in Schools 181 High-Stakes Tests and Academic Standards as Part of State and Federal School Reform

183

(3)

No Child Left Behind: High-Stakes Testing and Academic Standards

186

(3)

The Backlash to High-Stakes Testing

189

(3)

Cheating on High-Stakes Tests

192

(1)

The Federal Government Decides the Reading War: No Child Left Behind

193

(1)

A Case Study: Student Violence and Federal Action

194

(3)

Private Foundations: The Invisible Power in Education

197

(2)

Should the Role of Politicians in Education Be Limited by Eliminating Compulsory-Education Laws?

199

(3)

Conclusion

202

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

203

(3)

8 The Profession of Teaching

206

(37)

Teacher Education in a Global Economy

209

(2)

Disparities in Teacher Salaries and Equality of Educational Opportunity

211

(2)

Current Issues in Teacher Education

213

(4)

Teacher Education

217

(2)

American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence: Alternative Routes to Teaching

219

(1)

The Rewards of Teaching

219

(2)

Working Conditions

221

(4)

Teachers' Unions and Teacher Politics

225

(8)

A Case Study: Tom Mooney, AFT Vice President and President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers

233

(5)

Should Teachers Strike?

238

(2)

Conclusion

240

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

241

(2)

9 Textbooks, Curriculum, Internet E-Learning, and Instruction

243

(32)

Censorship Issues

243

(3)

Web Scrub: A New Form of Censorship?

246

(1)

Textbooks

246

(4)

Curriculum Standards and the Political Nature of Knowledge

250

(4)

Curriculum

254

(4)

John Dewey and Progressive Education

258

(2)

Humanistic Social Efficiency for the Twenty-First Century

260

(1)

The Internet and E-Learning

261

(1)

The Child Online Protection Act of 1999

262

(2)

Instruction

264

(3)

Critical Pedagogy

267

(3)

Conclusion

270

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

271

(4)

10 The Courts and the Schools

275

Drug Testing of Students

277

(2)

Students' Free Speech Rights

279

(1)

Gays, Boy Scouts, and No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

280

(1)

Sexual Harassment and Discrimination

281

(1)

Students' Access to Books

281

(1)

Student Suspensions

282

(2)

Do School Authorities Have the Right to Paddle Children?

284

(1)

Compulsion and Religion

285

(1)

Vouchers and Religious Schools

286

(1)

Child-Benefit Theory

287

(1)

Can States Regulate Private Schools?

288

(1)

Religion and State School Requirements

289

(3)

School Prayer, Bible Reading, and Meditation

292

(1)

Student Prayers

293

(2)

School Prayer and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

295

(1)

Secular Humanism and the Religion of Public Schools

295

(2)

Evolution and Creationism

297

(1)

Parents' Rights

298

(2)

Teachers' Rights

300

(4)

The Liability of Teachers

304

(1)

Teachers' Private Lives

305

(2)

The Language of the Schools

307

(1)

School Finances

308

(2)

Conclusion

310

(1)

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

310

INDEX

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