American Education with PowerWeb by Spring, Joel;

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Clear, concise, and authoritative, American Education brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators’ classrooms. Revised every two years, the text provides an 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 provides thorough coverage of "No Child Left Behind," a review of drug testing and vouchers, a new discussion of academic testing, and coverage of the Commission on Excellence in Special Education.

Clear, concise, and authoritative, American Education brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators’ classrooms. Revised every two years, the text provides an 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 provides thorough coverage of "No Child Left Behind," a review of drug testing and vouchers, a new discussion of academic testing, and coverage of the Commission on Excellence in Special Education.

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PART 1: SCHOOL AND SOCIETY

Chapter 1: The Purposes of Public Schooling

The Problem Defining Educational Goals: Character Education

The Public Benefits of Schools

Are Schools Always a Public Good?

History and the Goals of Schooling

The Political Goals of Schooling

The Social Goals of Schooling

Economic Goals

Human Capital and the Role of Business in American Education

Issues about Human Capitalism

Chapter 2: Education and Equality of Opportunity

The Common School Model

The Sorting Machine

The High-Stakes Testing Model

Education and Income

Gender, Educational Attainment, and Income

Closing the Gap Between Men's and Women's Incomes

Race, Educational Attainment, and Income

Are Students Treated Equally?

The Issue of Social Class

Education, Social Class, and School Districts

Education, Social Class, and Real Estate Brokers

Shopping for a Public School

Savage Inequalities

Central City Schools

Social Class and "At-Risk Students"

Poverty Among School-Aged Children

The End of the American Dream: School Dropouts

Tracking and Ability Grouping

Should Tracking and Ability Grouping Be Abolished?

Social Reproduction

Resistance

Parental Involvement

Chapter 3: Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs

The Law, Race, and Equality of Educational Opportunity

The Meaning of Race

What Race Am I?: Racial and Cultural Self-Identification

Race and Social Class

The Economics of Racism

Defining Racism

Institutional Racism: Relationship Between Racial Segregation and High School Dropouts

Teaching About Racism

The Future of Desegregation

Second-Generation Segregation

The Recent Struggle for Equal Education for Women

Sexism and Education

Students with Disabilities

Public Law 94-142: Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)

Writing an IEP

Which Children Have Disabilities?

Integrating Children with Disabilities into the Regular Classroom

Inclusion and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

An Inclusion Success Story

The Inclusion Debate

President George W. Bush's Commission on Excellence in Special Education

Chapter 4: Student Diversity

Is It Hispanic or Latino?

The Changing Population of U.S. Schools

Educational Experiences of Immigrants to the United States

Immigrant Languages

Are U.S. Teachers Prepared for Language Diversity?

Mexican American Students and U.S. Schools

Asian American Students and U.S. Schools

Native American Students and U.S. Schools

Chapter 5: Multicultural Education

Dominated Cultures: John Ogbu

Empowerment through Multicultural Education: James Banks, Sonia Nieto, and Critical Pedagogy

Educating for Economic Power: Lisa Delpit

Ethnocentric Education

Bilingual Education and English Language Acquisition: No Child Left Behind

English Language Acquisition Act of 2001

Bicultural Education: Is This The Answer?

Globalization: Language and Cultural Rights

PART 2: POWER AND CONTROL IN AMERICAN EDUCATION

Chapter 6: Local Control, Choice, Charter Schools, and Commercialism

The Education Chair

School Boards

Educational Bureaucracy

Home Schooling

School Choice

National Public School Choice Plan: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Public-Private Choice Plan: The State of Ohio's Pilot Project Scholarship Program

Charter Schools

Are Charter Schools Failing?

Examples of Three Charter Schools

For-Profit Schools and Charters

Edison Schools Inc.: A Tale of an Education Company in Search of Profit

The Edison Design

Commercialism in Schools

Chapter 7: Power and Control at the State and National Levels: High-Stakes Testing, School Violence, The Reading and Math Wars, and Private Foundations

Local, State, and Federal School Revenues

Categorical Aid: The Source of Federal Power

Increasing State Involvement in Schools

No Child Left Behind: High-Stakes Testing and Academic Standards

Does High-Stakes Testing Work?

The Backlash to High-Stakes Testing

Cheating on High-Stakes Tests

The Federal Government Decides the Reading War: No Child Left Behind

A Case Study: Student Violence and Federal Action

Private Foundations: The Invisible Power in Education

Should The Role of Politicians In Education Be Limited by Eliminating Compulsory-Education Laws?

Chapter 8: The Profession of Teaching

Teacher Education in a Global Economy

Disparities in Teacher Salaries and Equality of Educational Opportunity

Current Issues in Teacher Education

Control Through Testing: National Licensing and Certification

Teacher Certification and No Child Left Behind

National Certification: The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Teacher Education

American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence: Alternative Routes to Teaching

The Rewards of Teaching

Working Conditions

Teachers' Unions and Teacher Politics

Differences Between the Two Unions

A Brief History of the National Education Association (NEA)

A Brief History of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

The NEA and the AFT Today

A Case Study: Tom Mooney, AFT Vice President and President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers

Should Teachers Strike?

Chapter 9: Textbooks, Curriculum, Internet E-Learning, and Instruction

Censorship Issues

Web Scrub: A New Form of Censorship?

Textbooks

Curriculum Standards and the Political Nature of Knowledge

Curriculum

John Dewey and Progressive Education

Humanistic Social Efficiency for the 21st Century

The Internet and E-Learning

The Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000

Instruction

Critical Pedagogy

Chapter 10: The Courts and the Schools

Drug Testing

Students’ Free Speech Rights

Gays, Boy Scouts, and No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Sexual Harassment and Discrimination

Access to Books

Suspensions

Do School Authorities Have the Right to Paddle Children?

Compulsion and Religion

Vouchers and Religious Schools

Child-Benefit Theory

Can States Regulate Private Schools?

Religion and State School Requirements

School Prayer, Bible Reading, and Meditation

Student Prayers

School Prayer and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Secular Humanism and the Religion of Public Schools

Evolution and Creationism

Parents' Rights

Teachers’ Rights

The Liability of Teachers

Teachers’ Private Lives

The Language of the Schools

School Finances

At end of each chapter: Conclusion · Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter

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