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American Education, 10/e
Joel Spring

Table of Contents

PART 1: THE SCHOOL AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
Chapter 1: The Purposes of Public Schooling
Chapter 2: The Profession of Teaching
Chapter 3: Teachers' Unions and Teacher Politics
Chapter 4: Equality of Opportunity and Social Class
Chapter 5: Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs
Chapter 6: Student Diversity
Chapter 7: Multicultural Education

PART 2: POWER AND CONTROL IN AMERICAN EDUCATION
Chapter 8: Local Control, Home Schooling, Choice, Charter Schools, Privatization, and Commercialism
Chapter 9: Power and Control at the State and National Levels: Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, School Violence, The Reading and Math Wars, and Private Foundations
Chapter 10: Textbooks, Curriculum, Internet E-Learning, and Instruction
Chapter 11: The Courts and the Schools








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