Vicious circles in education reform : assimilation, Americanization, and fulfilling the middle class ethic /
Vicious Circles traces the history of development of public education and the near simultaneous advent of educational reform from its very beginning. Drawing on history, politics, law, sociology, and educational research, all aspects of public schooling are brought to light using a non-partisan anal...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- The stories we tell: narratives of public schooling
- Schooling as sieve: distinguishing between the classes
- Schooling and the real America: struggling toward Americanization
- Schools of thought: systematizing the study of education
- The flat free world: global competitiveness and equal educational opportunity
- Our kids, our rules: centralizing or decentralizing America's schools
- A study in misrepresentation: scholarly interpretations of policy talk
- Schooling and the "culturally deprived": racism and American schooling
- White flight and black plight: situating the segregated neighborhood
- Measuring value, intelligence testing and the "science" of ability
- Able minds, able bodies: ableism and the public school
- Segregation's new stripes: race, language, and special education
- You're an American now: assimilation or elimination for the non-American
- It's a man's world: schooling and the gender gap
- Vicious circles in education reform: a conclusion.
