附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I. Social justice and democracy : unmet promises -- 1. For richer / Paul Krugman -- 2. Funding accountability : states, courts, and public responsibility / Sue Books -- 3. Democracy's high school? : social change and American secondary education in the post-Conant era / John L. Rury -- 4. Creating new inequalities : contradictions of reform / Linda M. McNeil -- 5. Illusions of progress : business as usual / Christine E. Sleeter and Carl Grant -- 6. Higher education as a public good / Stanley Aronowitz -- Part II. Schools for sale : consumerism, corporate culture, and public education -- 7. Profits without people / Clinton E. Boutwell -- 8. Kids for sale : corporate culture and the challenge of public schooling / Henry A. Giroux -- 9. The Littleton tragedy / Svi Shapiro -- 10. Commercial culture and the assault on children's character / Alex Molnar -- 11. Goals 2000 : the triumph of vulgarity and the legitimation of social injustice / David E. Purpel -- Part III. Marginality and difference : the fractured community -- 12. Becoming educated : a journey of alienation or integration? / Jane Roland Martin -- 13. English-only triumphs, but the costs are high / Alejandro Portes -- 14. What about the boys? / Michael Kimmel -- 15. Race and the achievement gap / Harold Berlak -- 16. What Matthew Shepard would tell us : gay and lesbian issues in education / Doug Risner -- 17. A parent's dilemma : public vs. Jewish education / Svi Shapiro -- Part IV. Critique and hope : moral and spiritual perspectives on education -- 18. From local control to government and corporate takeover of school curriculum : the No Child Left Behind Act and the Reading First program / Harold Berlak -- 19. Public school reform : the mismeasure of education / Svi Shapiro -- 20. Care and moral education / Nel Noddings -- 21. Education and spirituality / Dwayne Huebner -- 22. The spiritual transformation of education / Michael Lerner -- 23. Social justice, curriculum, and spirituality / David E. Pur
摘要:The editors present readings that seek to critically situate issues of education in the context of the major cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological and spiritual crises that confront modern America and the world.
