Joel H. Spring

This fifth edition of Joel Spring's The American School, 1642-2000 provides a comprehensive, up-to-date history of American education in Spring's signature style, stimulating critical thought, and analysis. Spring offers alternative interpretations of each historical period with an emphasis on the role of multiculturalism, racism, and economic issues in shaping our schools throughout U.S. history, as well as on the role of schools as one of many institutions that manage the distribution of ideas in American society.

The American School, 1642-2000

Education and the Rise of the Corporate State

from the Puritans to no child left behind

The American school

Clear, concise, and authoritative--compact and affordable, too--with 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.

American Education

Examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis of this book is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states.

The Rise of the Educational Security State

Pedagogies of Globalization

Offers a comprehensive overview and synthesis of research, theories, and models related to the topic of globalization of education. This title introduces readers to the processes, institutions, and forces by which schooling has been globalized and examines the impact of these forces on schooling in local contexts.

An Introduction

Globalization of Education

"Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces including elite networks, the for-profit education industry, data managers, and professional educators that are pushing the use of ICT for online instruction, test preparation and tutoring, data management, instructional software packages, and more , and looks closely at the impact this is having on schools, students, and learning. Making a distinction between "mind" (as socially constructed) and "brain" (as a physiological entity), Spring draws on recent findings from comparative psychology on the possible effects of ICT on the social construction of the minds of students and school managers, and from neuroscience regarding its effect on students' brains. Throughout, the influence of elite networks and powerful interest groups is linked to what is happening to children in classrooms. In conclusion Spring offers bold suggestions to change the course of the looming technological triumph of ICT in the "brave new world" of schooling"-- Provided by publisher.

Power, Wealth, Cyberspace, and the Digital Mind

Education Networks

Anthony G. Picciano

The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various interest groups seek to influence policies and practices in public education in the United States. No longer left to the experience and knowledge of educators, American education has become as much the domain of private organizations, corporate entities, and political agents who see it as a market for their ideas, technologies, and ultimately profits. Piccciano and Spring posit that educational technology is the vehicle whereby these separate movements, organizations, and individuals have become integrated in a powerful common entity, and detail how the educational-industrial complex has grown and strengthened its position of influence. This timely, carefully documented, well argued book brings together Picciano’s perspective and expertise in the field of technology and policy issues and Spring’s in the history and politics of education in a unique critical analysis of the education-industrial complex and its implications for the future.

Ideology, Technology, and Profit

The Great American Education-industrial Complex

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In simple language and with the clear sightedness of the historian, this book offers libertarian theories of education that promise to radically alter the stream of educational development.¶"I find it powerful and liberating. . . . I think this is a very important book."--Jonathon Kozol

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