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Joel Spring’s American Education provides a clear, concise introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States. Students will come away with a strong knowledge of the forces behind the shaping of the American educational system through connecting with the latest topics, issues, and data.

PREFACE XXX
Part One SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
1. The History and Political Goals of Public Schooling
Common Core Standards: Protected or Prepared Childhood?
Impact of Educational Goals: Common Core Standards and Literacy
Historical Goals of Schooling
Political Goals of Schooling
Censorship and American Political Values
Courts and Political Values
Political Values and State and National Curriculum Standards
The Fruits of Political Education
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
2. The Social Goals of Schooling
The Problem of Determining Moral Values: Religion and Secularism
Moral Values and Sex Education
School Values and Gay and Lesbian Youth
Character Education
Do Public Schools Reduce Crime?
School Crime: Student Violence
School Crime: Bullying and Cyberbullying
Promoting National Health: Nutrition
Promoting National Health: Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Building Community through Extracurricular Activities
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
3. Education and Equality of Opportunity
The Relationship between Schools and Equality of Opportunity
School Models for Equality of Opportunity
The Common-School Model
The Sorting-Machine Model
The High-Stakes Testing Model
Education and Income
The Bias of Labor Market Conditions on Educational Attainment, Income, and Gender
White Privilege: Race, Educational Attainment, and Income
The Asian Advantage: Race, Household Income, and Education
Schooling: Are Schools Contributing to the Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer?
Rich and Poor School Districts
Social Class and At-Risk Students
The End of the American Dream: School Dropouts
Tracking and Ability Grouping
Social Reproduction
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
4. The Economic Goals of Schooling: Human Capital, Global Economy, and Preschool
Human Capital Theory
Schooling and the Global Knowledge Economy
School Curriculum and the Global Economy
The Human Capital Education Paradigm and Lifelong Learning
Can investment in Schools Grow the Economy?
Preschool and Human Capital Theory
The Perry Preschool Study
Child-Rearing and Social and Cultural Capital
Family Learning and School Success
Childhood Poverty
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
5. Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs
The Legal Problem in Defining Race
Defining Race after the 1965 Immigration Act
The 2010 Census and Race
The Fourteenth Amendment and Equality of Educational Opportunity
Desegregating Schools
School Segregation today
Second-Generation Segregation
The Struggle for Equal Education for Women
Students with Disabilities
Public Law 94-142: Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Disability Categories
Writing an IEP
Inclusion
Inclusion and No Child Left Behind
An Inclusion Success Story
The Inclusion Debate
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
6. Student Diversity
Global Migration and the Immigration Act of 1965
Mexican American Students and U.S. Schools
Asian American Students and U.S. Schools
Native American Students and U.S. Schools
Educational Experiences of Immigrants to the United States
The Language of the Schools
Languages of School-Age Children
Are U.S. Teachers Prepared for Language Diversity?
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
7. Multicultural and Multilingual Education
Cultural Differences in Knowing and Seeing the World
Biculturalism: Collectivist and Individualist Societies
The Differences among Dominant, Dominated, and Immigrant
Cultures
Dominated Cultures: John Ogbu
Empowerment through Multicultural Education: James Banks, Sonia Nieto, and Critical Pedagogy
Empowerment through Multicultural Education: Racism
Teaching about Racism
Empowerment through Multicultural Education: Sexism
Educating for Economic Power: Lisa Delpit
Ethnocentric Education
Bilingual Education and English Language Acquisition:
No Child Left Behind
English Language Acquisition Act of 2001
Globalization: Language and Cultural Rights
Global Responses to Education of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
Part Two POWER AND CONTROL IN AMERICAN EDUCATION
8. Local Control, Choice, Charter Schools, and Home Schooling
The Education Chair
School Boards
School Choice
School Choice and Religion
National Public School Choice Plan: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Charter Schools
What Is a Charter School?
Three Examples of Charter Schools
For-Profit Companies and Charters
For-Profit Global Education Corporations
Home Schooling
Online and Distance Learning
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
9. Power and Control at State and National Levels: Political Party Platforms and High-Stakes Testing
Source of Federal Influence over Local School Policies
No Child Left Behind as Categorical Federal Aid
Increasing State Involvement in Schools
Example of Federal Power: President Obama’s Race to the Top
Common Core State Standards
Federal and State Control through High-Stakes Tests and Academic Standards
Consequences of Federal and State Control through High-Stakes Testing
Federal and State Mandated Tests and Equality of
Opportunity
Problems in Federal Control: Testing Students with Disabilities and English Language Learners
Does Federally Mandated High-Stakes Testing Work?
Does Federal Testing Policy Promote Unethical Behavior?
The Federal Government Decides the Reading War: No Child Left Behind
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
10. The Profession of Teaching
The Changing Roles of American Teachers
No Child Left Behind: Highly Qualified Teachers
The Rewards of Teaching
Working Conditions
Teacher Turnover
Teachers’ Unions and Teacher Politics
A Brief History of the National Education Association (NEA) A Brief History of the American Federation of Teachers
(AFT)
Differences between the Two Unions
Performance-Based Pay
Assault on Teachers Unions’ Collective Bargaining Rights
Should Teachers Strike?
Teachers’ Rights
Teachers’ Liability
Teachers’ Private Lives
Conclusion
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
11. Globalization of Education
Dominant Global Educational Ideology: Human Capital and Consumerism
OECD and Human Capital Theory
World Bank and Human Capital Education Theory
Global Education Business
Global Business and Global Testing Services: Standardization of Subjects and Global Intercultural English
Shadow Education Industry and Cram Schools
Franchising the Shadow Education System
Conclusion: Long Life and Happiness
Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter
INDEX

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American Education

American Education

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Summary

Table of Contents

Part One SCHOOL AND SOCIETY

1. The History and Political Goals of Public Schooling

Common Core Standards: Protected or Prepared Childhood?

Impact of Educational Goals: Common Core Standards and Literacy

Historical Goals of Schooling

Political Goals of Schooling

Censorship and American Political Values

Courts and Political Values

Political Values and State and National Curriculum Standards

The Fruits of Political Education

Conclusion

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

2. The Social Goals of Schooling

The Problem of Determining Moral Values: Religion and Secularism

Moral Values and Sex Education

School Values and Gay and Lesbian Youth

Character Education

Do Public Schools Reduce Crime?

School Crime: Student Violence

School Crime: Bullying and Cyberbullying

Promoting National Health: Nutrition

Promoting National Health: Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Building Community through Extracurricular Activities

Conclusion

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

3. Education and Equality of Opportunity

The Relationship between Schools and Equality of Opportunity

School Models for Equality of Opportunity

The Common-School Model

The Sorting-Machine Model

The High-Stakes Testing Model

Education and Income

The Bias of Labor Market Conditions on Educational Attainment, Income, and Gender

White Privilege: Race, Educational Attainment, and Income

The Asian Advantage: Race, Household Income, and Education

Schooling: Are Schools Contributing to the Rich Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer?

Rich and Poor School Districts

Social Class and At-Risk Students

The End of the American Dream: School Dropouts

Tracking and Ability Grouping

Social Reproduction

Conclusion

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

4. The Economic Goals of Schooling: Human Capital, Global Economy, and Preschool

Human Capital Theory

Schooling and the Global Knowledge Economy

School Curriculum and the Global Economy

The Human Capital Education Paradigm and Lifelong Learning

Can investment in Schools Grow the Economy?

Preschool and Human Capital Theory

The Perry Preschool Study

Child-Rearing and Social and Cultural Capital

Family Learning and School Success

Childhood Poverty

Conclusion

Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

5. Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs

The Legal Problem in Defining Race

Defining Race after the 1965 Immigration Act

The 2010 Census and Race

The Fourteenth Amendment and Equality of Educational Opportunity

Desegregating Schools

School Segregation today

Second-Generation Segregation

The Struggle for Equal Education for Women

Students with Disabilities

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

Disability Categories

Writing an IEP

Inclusion

Inclusion and No Child Left Behind

An Inclusion Success Story

The Inclusion Debate