The American School, 1642-2000

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.