TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spring,Joel H.
AU  - Spring,Joel H.
TI  - The American school, 1642-2000
SN  - 0072322748 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Education
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Rev. ed. of: The American school, 1642-1996. 4th ed. c1997; Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents:  1. Thinking critically about history: Ideological management and the culture wars -- 2. Religion and authority in colonial education -- 3.The ghost dance and the schooling of native Americans -- 4. Nattionalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral reform in the new republic -- 5. The common school and the threat of cultural pluralism -- 6.The ideology and politics of the common school -- 7.Organizing the American school: The nineteenth-century schoolmarm -- 8. Educational racism: Native Americans and Asian Americans -- 9.Hispanic/Latino Americans: exclusion and segregation -- 10. Education and segregation: African Americans -- 11. Growth of the welfare fumction of schools: School showers, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, and Social centers -- 12. The school and the workplace: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education -- 13.Meritocracy: The experts take charge -- 14. The politics of knowledge: Teachers unions, American legion, Radicalism, Movies and Radio -- 15. Education and National Policy -- 16. The great civil rights movement and the new culture wars -- 17. The end of the century
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