Table of Contents
Each Chapter Includes a “Documents” and a “Questions” Section. Introduction. I. RELIGION AND EDUCATION: ITS ROOTS AND CONTINUING LEGACY.
1. The Biblical Commonwealth.
2. Education as the Safeguard of Liberty.
3. Religion and the Schools: Conflicting Values.
4. Religion and the Schools: The Free Exercise Clause.
5. Religion and the Schools: The Establishment Clause.
II. RELIGION AND EDUCATION: SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING.
III. LOCAL VS. CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF SCHOOLING: PAST AND PRESENT.
6. The District School and Noah Webster's America.
7. Horace Mann and the Common School Crusade.
8. The One Best System and the Feminization of the Teaching Profession.
9. America's Textbooks in the Nineteenth Century.
10. Education Vouchers: Parental vs. Societal Control Revisited.
IV. LOCAL V. CENTRALIZED CONTROL OF SCHOOLING: SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING.
V. RETREAT FROM COMMONALITY: EDUCATION OF THE “CHILD RACES.”
11. Booker T. Washington and Industrial Education.
12. Plessy and Beyond.
13. The Education of the Immigrant: Common or Special Education.
14. The Brown Decisions.
15. Affirmative Action: The Next Step.
16. Enter Bakke.
VI. RETREAT FROM COMMONALITY: SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING.
VII. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ABUSE REVISITED.
17. Financial Equity: Local Control Revisited.
18. Mainstreaming and Inclusion: Out of Sight/Out of Mind.
19. Testing: A History of Abuse.
VIII. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING.