The American school, 1642-1996
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The American school, 1642-1996
McGraw-Hill Companies, c1997
4th ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This fourth edition provides a history of American education that aims to stimulate critical thinking on the part of the reader. It provides interpretations of each historical period and uses a critical perspective that analyzes the social and economic implications of historical events.
Table of Contents
- Thinking critically about history
- religion and authority in colonial education
- the ghost dance and the schooling of native Americans
- nationalism
- moral reform and charity in the New Republic
- the common school and the threat of cultural pluralism
- the ideology and politics of the common school
- organizing the American school - the 19th-century schoolmarm
- education as deculturalization - native Americans and Puerto Ricans
- education and segregation - Asian Americans
- African Americans and Mexican Americans
- schooling and the new corporate order
- education and human capital
- meritocracy - the experts take charge
- the politics of education
- big bird - movies, radio and television join schools as educators
- education and national policy
- the great civil rights movement and the new culture wars
- conservatism and culture wars at the end of the century.
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