American Education - Softcover

Joel H. Spring

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072397780 ISBN 13: 9780072397789

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 2001

Synopsis

American Education -- now in its tenth edition -- continues its mission of providing a fresh, concise, and up-to-date introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching. Like previous editions, this one is notable for the way it challenges students and engages them in analysis and critical thinking about the role and purposes of schooling in American society. Revised every two years in order to guarantee current analysis of the very latest developments in today's educational issues, American Education's critical and broad scope make it an ideal text for beginning and advanced study of today's schools. Clear, concise, and authoritative -- compact and affordable, too -- with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, American Education brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators' classrooms. For this revision all chapters were updated and extensive new material was added on race, gender, and special needs; attempts to impose the culture of the school on other cultures, specifically Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Asian, and Native American culture; the differences between local, state, and federal control of schools and the role of high-stakes tests in the control of schools.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072397780
• ISBN 13: 9780072397789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320