Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World

Table of contents

• Critical Social Issues in American Education - Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Introduction xi
• Reference xvi
• I - Social Justice and Democracy: Unmet Promises 1
• 1 - For Richer 7
• 2 - Funding Accountability: States, Courts, and Public Responsibility 25
• Notes *
• References *
• 3 - Democracy's High School? Social Change and American Secondary Education in the Post-Conant Era 45
• Notes *
• References *
• 4 - Creating New Inequalities: Contradictions of Reform 77
• Notes *
• 5 - Illusions of Progress: Business as Usual 89
• References *
• 6 - Higher Education as a Public Good 109
• II - Schools for Sale: Consumerism, Corporate Culture, and Public Education 123
• 7 - Profits Without People 129
• Notes *
• 8 - Kids for Sale: Corporate Culture and the Challenge of Public Schooling 143
• Notes *
• 9 - The Littleton Tragedy 163
• 10 - Commercial Culture and the Assault on Children's Character 169
• Notes *
• 11 - Goals 2000: the Triumph of Vulgarity and the Legitimation of Social Injustice 179
• References *
• III - Marginality and Difference: the Fractured Community 191
• Reference *
• 12 - Becoming Educated: a Journey of Alienation or Integration? 197
• Notes *
• References *
• 13 - English-Only Triumphs, but the Costs Are High 211
• Recommended Resources *
• 14 - What About the Boys? 219
• Notes *
• 15 - Race and the Achievement Gap 227
• Notes *
• 16 - What Matthew Shepard Would Tell Us: Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education 237
• References *
• 17 - A Parent's Dilemma: Public Vs. Jewish Education 251
• Glossary *
• IV - Critique and Hope: Moral and Spiritual Perspectives on Education 261
• 18 - From Local Control to Government and Corporate Takeover of School Curriculum: the No Child Left Behind Act and the Reading First Program 267
• Notes *
• 19 - Public School Reform: the Mismeasure of Education 287
• 20 - Care and Moral Education 297
• Notes *
• 21 - Education and Spirituality 309
• Notes *
• 22 - The Spiritual Transformation of Education 325
• 23 - Social Justice, Curriculum, and Spirituality 349
• References 365
• V - Globalization and Education: the 21st-Century Challenge 367
• 24 - Threats and Temps 373
• Notes 395
• 25 - Education and the Dilemmas of Modernism: Towards an Ecozoic Vision 399
• Bibliography *
• 26 - Identity in the Globalizing World 443
• Notes *
• 27 - The Transformation of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization 455
• References 464
• 28 - Lessons of September 11: What Should Schools Teach? 465
• Author Index 475
• Subject Index 485

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