Research Catalog

Title

The American school : from the Puritans to No Child Left Behind / Joel Spring.

Author

Spring, Joel H.

Publication

Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

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Details

Description

xii, 494, 22 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The seventh edition of The American School: From the Puritans to No Child Left Behind by Joel Spring features: an expanded discussion of the multicultural population of the United States; a new section on the 1924 Immigration Act; a new section on Eugenics and the Age of Sterilization; an expanded discussion of public schooling as America's welfare institution; a new section on Meritocracy and the Big Test; a new section on Concepts of Childhood; and an updated examination of the No Child Left Behind legislation." "This 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 understanding the evolution of U.S. schools."--Jacket.

Subject

• United States
• Education > United States > History
• Education > Social aspects > History > United States

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Rev. ed. of: The American school, 1642-2004. 6th ed. c2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Thinking critically about history: ideological management, culture wars, and consumerism -- Religion and authority in colonial education -- Nationalism, multiculturalism, and moral reform in the new republic -- The ideology and politics of the common school -- The common school and the threat of cultural pluralism -- Organizing the American school: the nineteenth-century schoolmarm -- Multiculturalism and the failure of the common school ideal -- Growth of the welfare function of schools: school showers, kindergarten, playgrounds, home economics, social centers, and cultural conflict -- The school and the workplace: high school, junior high school, and vocational guidance and education -- Meritocracy: the experts take charge -- The politics of knowledge: teachers' unions, the American Legion, and the American way -- Schools, media, and popular culture: influencing the minds of children and teenagers -- Education and national policy -- The great civil rights movement, the new immigration, and the new culture wars -- Education in the twenty-first century.

ISBN

• 9780073525891 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0073525898 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2008271323

OCLC

• 182583673
• SCSB-12230202

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library