American education / Joel H. Spring

PREFACE  
XXXPart 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  
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  
5. Equality of Educational Opportunity:
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  
6. Student DiversityGlobal 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?  
7. Multicultural and Multilingual EducationCultural 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  
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 SchoolingOnline and Distance Learning   
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 TopCommon 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  
10. The Profession of TeachingThe 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 PayAssault on Teachers Unions’ Collective Bargaining Rights   
Should Teachers Strike?  
Teachers’ Rights  
Teachers’ Liability  
Teachers’ Private Lives  
11. Globalization of EducationDominant 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 
 
also includes INDEX