American school
Subtitle: from the Puritans to no child left behind
By: Joel Spring.
Contributors: Spring, Joel H.
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780073525891
Subjects: Education -- United States -- History; Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
Notes: Rev. ed. of: The American school, 1642-2004. 6th ed. c2005.

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