Conflict of interests : the politics of American education

Summary: Conflicts of Interest: The Politics of American Education, Third Edition describes and analyzes how policy is made for American schools and its effect on all our lives and thinking. Joel Spring argues that the politics on education is driven by a complex interrelationship between politicians, private foundations and think tanks, teachers' unions, special-interest groups, educational politicians, school administrators, boards of education, courts, and the knowledge industry.

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ISBN: 9780070605794
ISBN: 0070605793
Physical Description: xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, ©1998.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Educational Politicians -- Bill Clinton: Educational Politician -- George W. Bush: Educational Politician -- Other Educational Politicians and Political Groups -- Administrative Politicians -- Boards of Education -- Special-Interest Groups -- Teachers' Unions -- The Corporate Sector -- Foundations -- Other Interest Groups -- Sources of Conflict: Power and Knowledge -- Conflicts over Knowledge and Power -- Knowledge and Power -- Knowledge and Economic Power -- Power and Culture -- Power and Language -- Multicultural, Bicultural, and Ethnocentric Education -- Religion -- Equality of Educational Opportunity -- Sources of Conflict: The Politics of School Finance and the Economics of Education -- Politics of School Finance -- Maximizing Benefits and Reducing Cost -- The Politics of Unequal School Financing -- Basic Economic Questions -- Who Should Pay? -- How Should Educational Monies Be Distributed? -- How Should Money for Education Be Collected? -- How Much Money Should Be Spent on Education? -- The Economics of Schooling in the New World Order -- Sources of Conflict: The Educational Establishment -- The Revolt against Bureaucracy -- Power -- Teacher Power -- Power and Money -- Political Organization and Student Achievement -- Student Achievement and Equality of Educational Opportunity -- Democracy versus the Market -- Politics and Second-Generation Segregation -- Political Content -- Reinvention of the School, Systemic Reform, and Federal Policies -- Reinventing the School -- Analyzing National Education Policy.