TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spring, Joel H.
TI  - The American school: a global context from the Puritans to the Obama era 
SN  - 9780078097843 [paperback]
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Boston
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Education
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: 1 Thinking critically about history -- 2 Globalization and religion in colonial education -- 3 Nationalism, multiculturalism, and moral reform in the new republic -- 4 The ideology and politics of the common school -- 5 The common school and the threat of cultural pluralism -- 6 Organizing the american school: teachers and bureaucracy -- 7 Multiculturalism and the failure of the common school ideal -- 8 Global migration and the growth of the welfare function of schools -- 9 Human capital: high school, junior high school, and the vocational guidance and education -- 10 Scientific school management: testing, immigrants, and experts -- 11 The politics of knowledge: teachers' unions, the american legion, and the american way -- 12 Schools, media, and popular culture; influencing the minds of children and teenagers -- 13 American schools and global politics: the cold war and poverty -- 14 The fruits of globalization: civil rights, global migration, and multicultural education -- 15 Globalizing the american school: from nixon to obama
ER  -