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 | Conflict of Interests: The Politics of American Education, 5th Edition
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 | | Joel Spring, Queens College
| | Softcover, 256 pages | | ©2005, ISBN-13 9780072875782 | |
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| | | Description |
Providing a critical understanding of the political and social forces shaping educational politics in the United States, this concise text describes and analyzes how policy is made for American schools and its effect on all of our lives and thinking. Joel Spring argues that the politics of Education is driven by a complex interrelationship between politicians, private foundations and think tanks, teachers’ unions, special-interest groups, educational politicians, school administrators, boards of education, courts, and the knowledge industry. The text uses many current examples to illustrate conflicts over educational policies.
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| Table of Contents |
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Education and American Global Power: The Political Road to No Child Left Behind
Chapter 2: Sources of Conflict: Power, Knowledge, and Interest Groups
Chapter 3: Sources of Conflict: The Politics of School Finance and the Economics of Education
Chapter 4: Sources of Conflict: The Educational Establishment
Chapter 5: Political Organization and Student Achievement
Chapter 6: Reinvention of the School and Government: The Changing Political Face of Public Education
Chapter 7: State Politics of Education
Chapter 8: Local Politics of Education
Chapter 9: The Knowledge Industry
Chapter 10: The Political Uses of the Courts
Chapter 11: The Political Control of Education in a Free Society
Index
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| About the Authors |
Joel Spring received his Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently a Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His great-great-grandfather was the first Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and his grandfather, Joel S. Spring, was a local district chief at the time Indian Territory became Oklahoma. He currently teaches at Queens College of the City University of New York.
His major research interests are history of education, multicultural education, Native American culture, the politics of education, global education, and human rights education. He is the author of over twenty books and the most recent are How Educational Ideologies are Shaping Global Society; Education and the Rise of the Global Economy; The Universal Right to Education: Justification, Definition, and Guidelines; Globalization and Educational Rights; and Educating the Consumer Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media.
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| New Features |
A new Chapter 1 focuses on the political background of the "No Child Left Behind" act.
New coverage in Chapter 2 takes a critical look at standards and the testing movement.
The fifth edition includes comprehensive coverage of recent political events that impact educational policy, such as the "No Child Left Behind" legislation, the revision of IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), the upcoming presidential race, the national pendulum shift towards Republicanism and its ramifications for education, and globalization.
The text presents international/comparative perspectives on American educational policy.
Web resources related to educational politics and policy appear in a special index within the text.
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