Clear, concise, and authoritativecompact and affordable, toowith scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, American Education brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators classrooms. Revised every two years, American Education provides a fresh, concise, and up-to-date introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States. This edition introduces a new chapter reference guide to the No Child Left Behind Act, provides a fresh look at multiculturalism and multilingualism, and presents a new discussion of the link between schooling and the growing gap between rich and poor.

This text, which is revised every two years to keep up with changes in school policies, provides an introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and the profession of teaching in the US. Spring (Queens College, City U. of New York) adds a guide to chapter references to sections that discuss the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in this edition, as well as statistical tables and new sections on topics such as public interest, core curriculum, education and income, cultural capital, school segregation and the gender divide, foreign-born students, biculturalism, and the National Public School Choice Plan, and the National Private School Choice Plan. Chapters cover such topics as the goals of public schooling, equal opportunity, diversity, textbooks and curriculum, the courts, and charter schools. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.

A Guide with Chapter References to Discussions of No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Preface

Part One: School and Society

Chapter One: The Goals of Public Schooling

Chapter Two: Education and Equality of Opportunity

Chapter Three: Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs

Chapter Four: Student Diversity

Chapter Five: Multicultural and Multilingual Education

Part Two: Power and Control in American Education

Chapter Six: Local Control, Choice, Charter Schools, Home Schooling, and Commercialism

Chapter Seven: Power and Control at the State and National Levels: High-Stakes Testing, School Violence, Reading Wars, and Private Foundations

Chapter Eight: The Profession of Teaching

Chapter Nine: Textbooks, Curriculum, E-Learning, and Instruction Censorship Issues

Chapter Ten: The Courts and the Schools