The American School : From The Puritans To The Trump Era

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Time Lines
About the Author
Preface
Chapter 1 Thinking Critically about History
	Interpreting School History: From the Right to the Left
	Purposes of Educational History and Its Effect on Public Images and Emotions Regarding Schools
	Themes in American Educational History
	Globalization Framework
	Religious Debates in U.S. Schools from the Colonial Era to the Present
	Schools and the Culture Wars
	Schools as Managers of Public Thought
	Racial and Ethnic Conflict as a Theme in School History
	The Role in Educational History of Equality of Opportunity and Human Capital
	Globalization: Consumer and Environmental Education
Chapter 2 Globalization and Religion in Colonial Education
	Education and Culture in Colonial Society
	The Role of Education in Colonial Society
	Historical Interpretations of Colonial Education
	Authority and Social Status in Colonial Education
	Colonialism and Educational Policy
	Language and Cultural Conflict
	Native Americans: Education as Cultural Imperialism
	Enslaved Africans: Atlantic Creoles
	Enslaved Africans: The Plantation System
	The Idea of Secular Education: Freedom of Thought and the Establishment of Academies
	Benjamin Franklin and Education as Social Mobility
	The Family and the Child
	Conclusion
Chapter 3 Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic
	World Culture Theorists
	The Problem of Cultural Diversity
	Religion and Liberty
	Noah Webster: Nationalism and the Creation of a Dominant Culture
	Thomas Jefferson: A Natural Aristocracy
	Moral Reform and Faculty Psychology
	Concepts of Childhood: Protected, Working, Poor, Rural, and Enslaved
	Charity Schools, the Lancasterian System, and Prisons
	Institutional Change and the American College
	Public versus Private Schools
	Conclusion: Continuing Issues in American Education
Chapter 4 The Ideology and Politics of the Common School
	Three Distinctive Features of the Common School Movement
	The Ideology of the Common School Movement
	Workingmen and the Struggle for a Republican Education
	How Much Government Involvement in Schools? The Whigs and the Democrats
	The Birth of the High School
	The Continuing Debate about the Common School Ideal
	Conclusion
Chapter 5 The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism
	The Increasing Multicultural Population of the United States
	Irish Catholics: A Threat to Anglo-American Schools and Culture
	Slavery and Freedom in the North: African Americans and Schools in the New Republic
	Native Americans
	Conclusion
Chapter 6 Organizing the American School: Teachers and Bureaucracy
	The American Teacher
	Revolution in Teaching Methods: Object Learning
	The Evolution of Bureaucracy: A Global Model
	The Age-Graded Classroom
	McGuffey’s Readers and the Spirit of Capitalism
	Conclusion
Chapter 7 Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal
	Mexican Americans: Race and Citizenship
	Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation
	Native American Citizenship
	Educational Racism and Deculturalization
	Citizenship for African Americans
	Issues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship
	Puerto Rican American Educational Issues
	Conclusion: Setting the Stage for the Great Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 8 Global Migration and the Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools
	Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
	The Kindergarten Movement
	Home Economics: Education of the New Consumer Woman
	School Cafeterias, the American Cuisine, and Processed Foods
	The Play Movement
	Summer School
	Social Centers
	The New Culture Wars
	Resisting Segregation: African Americans
	The Second Crusade for Black Education
	Resisting Segregation: Mexican Americans
	Native American Boarding Schools
	Resisting Discrimination: Asian Americans
	Educational Resistance in Puerto Rico
	Conclusion: Public Schooling as America’s Welfare Institution
Chapter 9 Human Capital: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education
	The High School
	Vocational Education
	Junior High School
	Adapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Lesson Plans
	Adapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Progressivism
	Adapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Stimulus-Response
	Classroom Management as Preparation for Factory Life
	Historical Interpretations: Public Benefit or Corporate Greed?
	Conclusion: The Meaning of Equality of Opportunity
Chapter 10 Scientific School Management: Testing, Immigrants, and Experts
	Scientifically Managed Schools: Meritocracy and Reducing Public Control
	Professionalizing Educational Administration
	Measurement, Democracy, and the Superiority of Anglo-Americans
	Closing the Door to Immigrants: The 1924 Immigration Act
	“Backward” Children and Special Classrooms
	Eugenics and the Age of Sterilization
	The University and Meritocracy
	Conclusion
Chapter 11 The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers’ Unions, the American Legion, and the American Way
	Teachers versus Administrators: The American Federation of Teachers
	The Rise of the National Education Association
	The Political Changes of the Depression Years
	The Politics of Ideological Management: The American Legion
	Textbook Censorship and the Teaching of Evolution
	Selling the “American Way” in Schools and on Billboards
	Propaganda and Free Speech in the Schools
	Rugg and Advertising
	Conclusion
Chapter 12 Schools, Media, and Popular Culture: Influencing the Minds of Children and Teenagers
	Censorship of Movies as a Form of Public Education
	Educators and the Movies
	The Production Code: Movies as Educators
	Should Commercial Radio or Educators Determine National Culture?
	Creating the Superhero for Children’s Radio
	Controlling the Influence of Comic Books
	Educating Children as Consumers
	The Creation of Teenage Markets
	Children and Youth from the 1950s to the Twenty-First Century
	Conclusion
Chapter 13 American Schools and Global Politics: The Cold War and Poverty
	Youth Unemployment: Universal Military Service and the GI Bill
	The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the Educational Testing Service
	The Cold War and Purging the Schools of Communists
	American Schools: Weakest Link to Global Victory?
	Global Imperatives: The National Defense Education Act
	Schools and the War on Poverty
	Sesame Street and Educational Television
	Conclusion
Chapter 14 The Fruits of Globalization: Civil Rights, Global Migration, and Multicultural Education
	Ending School Segregation of National Minorities
	The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
	Native Americans and Indigenous Educational Rights
	Asian Americans: Educating the “Model Minority”
	Hispanic/Latino Americans
	Bilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued
	The Immigration Act of 1965 and the New American Population
	Multicultural Education and the Culture Wars
	Schools and the International Women’s Movement
	Children with Special Needs
	The Coloring of Textbook Town
	Liberating the Textbook Town Housewife for More Consumption
	Conclusion: The Cold War and Civil Rights
Chapter 15 Globalization, Religion, Free Markets, and Human Capital: From Nixon to Trump
	Free Markets and Human Capital: School Choice and the Role of Schools in Economic Growth and Ending Poverty
	School Prayer and Bible Reading
	Christian Coalition: School Prayer and School Choice
	Christian Coalition: Religious Politics
	No Child Left Behind, Testing and School Prayer
	No Child Left Behind and Religious Conservatives
	The End of the Common School: Choice, Privatization, and Charter Schools
	Trump Administration: Free Markets, Choice, and Privatization
	Educating for the Consumer Economy
	Global Crisis and the Demise of Environmental Education
	Conclusion: From Horace Mann to Donald Trump
Index