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List of Time Lines | |
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Preface | |
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Thinking Critically about History: Ideological Management, Culture Wars, and Consumerism | |
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Reasons for studying American School History | |
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My Perspective on Educational History | |
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Culture and Religion as a Central Themes in Educational History | |
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Schools as One Form of Ideological Management | |
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The Role of Racism | |
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Economic Goals | |
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Consumerism and Environmental Education | |
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Religion and Authority in Colonial Education | |
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The Role of Education in Colonial Society | |
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Authority and Social Status in Colonial New England | |
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Colonialism and Educational Policy | |
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Language and Cultural Domination | |
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Native Americans: Education as Cultural Imperialism | |
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Enslaved Africans: Atlantic Creoles | |
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Enslaved Africans: The Plantation System | |
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The Idea of Secular Education: Freedom of Thought and the Establishment of Academies | |
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Benjamin Franklin and Education as Social Mobility | |
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The Family and the Child | |
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Conclusion | |
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Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic | |
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Noah Webster: Nationalism and the Creation of a Dominant Culture | |
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Thomas Jefferson: A Natural Aristocracy | |
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Moral Reform and Faculty Psychology | |
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Concepts of Childhood: Protected, Working, Poor, Rural, and Enslaved | |
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Charity Schools, the Lancasterian System, and Prisons | |
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Institutional Change and the American College | |
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Public versus Private Schools | |
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Conclusion: Continuing Issues in American Education | |
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The Ideology and Politics of the Common School | |
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Three Distinctive Features of the Common School Movement | |
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Workingmen and the Struggle for a Republican Education | |
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The Whigs and the Democrats | |
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The Birth of the High School | |
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The Continuing Debate about the Common School Ideal | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism | |
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The Increasing Multicultural Population of the United States | |
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Irish Catholics: A Threat to Anglo-American Schools and Culture | |
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Slavery and Freedom in the North: African Americans and Schools in the New Republic | |
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Native Americans | |
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Conclusion | |
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Organizing the American School: The Nineteenth-Century Schoolmarm | |
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The American Teacher | |
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The Maternal Model of Instruction | |
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The Evolution of the Bureaucratic Model | |
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McGuffey's Readers and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
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Female Teachers Civilize the West | |
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Conclusion | |
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Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal | |
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Mexican Americans: Race and Citizenship | |
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Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation | |
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Native American Citizenship | |
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Citizenship for African Americans | |
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Issues Regarding Puerto Rican Citizenship | |
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Puerto Rican American Educational Issues | |
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Conclusion: Setting the Stage for the Great Civil Rights Movement | |
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Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools: School Showers, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, Home Economics, Social Centers, and Cultural Conflict | |
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Immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe | |
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Integrated Time Line | |
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The Kindergarten Movement | |
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Home Economics: Education of the New Consumer Woman | |
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School Cafeterias, the American Cuisine, and Processed Foods | |
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The Play Movement | |
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Summer School | |
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Social Centers | |
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The New Culture Wars | |
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Resisting Segregation: African Americans | |
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The Second Crusade for Black Education | |
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Resisting Segregation: Mexican Americans | |
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Native American Boarding Schools | |
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Resisting Discrimination: Asian Americans | |
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Educational Resistance in Puerto Rico | |
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Conclusion: Public Schooling As America's Welfare Institution | |
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The School and the Workplace: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education | |
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The High School | |
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Vocational Education, Vocational Guidance, and the Junior High School | |
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Public Benefit or Corporate Greed? | |
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Adapting the Classroom to the Workplace: Herbart, Dewey, and Thorndike | |
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Conclusion: The Meaning of Equality of Opportunity | |
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Meritocracy: The Experts Take Charge | |
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Meritocracy and Efficient Management | |
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Measurement, Democracy, and the Superiority of Anglo-Americans | |
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Closing the Door to Immigrants: The 1924 Immigration Act | |
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"Backward" Children and Special Classrooms | |
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Eugenics and the Age of Sterilization | |
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The University and Meritocracy | |
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Conclusion | |
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Integrated Time Line | |
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The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers' Unions, the American Legion, and the American Way | |
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Keep the Schools Out of Politics: The Politics of Education | |
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The Politics of Professionalism: Teachers versus Administrators | |
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The Rise of the National Education Association | |
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The Political Changes of the Depression Years | |
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The Politics of Ideological Management: The American Legion | |
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Selling the "American Way" in Schools and on Billboards | |
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Conclusion | |
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Schools, Media, and Popular Culture: Influencing the Minds of Children and Teenagers | |
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Educators and the Movies | |
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Should Commercial Radio or Educators Determine National Culture? | |
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Creating the Super Hero for Children's Radio | |
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Controlling the Influence of Comic Books | |
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Educating Children as Consumers | |
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The Creation of Teenage Markets | |
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Children and Youth from the 1950s to the 21st Century | |
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Conclusion | |
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Education and National Policy | |
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The Cold War and National Educational Policy | |
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Meritocracy and The Big Test | |
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Ideological Management: Anticommunism | |
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Back to the Basics: Scholars and Conservatives Take Charge | |
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The National Defense Education Act | |
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The War on Poverty | |
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Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Great Civil Rights Movement, The New Immigration, and the New Culture Wars | |
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School Desegregation | |
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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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Native Americans | |
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Asian Americans: Educating the "Model Minority" | |
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Hispanic/Latino Americans | |
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Bilingual Education: The Culture Wars Continued | |
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The Immigration Act of 1965 and the New American Population | |
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Multicultural Education, Immigration, and the Culture Wars | |
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Schools and the Women's Movement | |
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Children with Special Needs | |
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The Coloring of Textbook Town | |
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Liberating the Textbook Town Housewife for More Consumption | |
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Conclusion: The Cold War and Civil Rights | |
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Education in the Twenty-First Century | |
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The Religious Right and School Prayer | |
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Environmental Education: The Radical Paradigm | |
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The Nixon Administration and the Conservative Reaction | |
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Accountability and the Increasing Power of the Standardized Test | |
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The Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Years: National Standards, Choice, and Savage Inequalities | |
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The End of the Common School: Choice, Privatization, and Charter Schools | |
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The Commercialization of Schools and Education for Consumption | |
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Textbooks: Environmentalism as the New Enemy | |
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No Child Left Behind: Fulfillment of the American Educational Dream? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Index | |