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Author Spring, Joel H.

Title Conflict of interests : the politics of American education / Joel Spring.

Imprint New York : Longman, ©1993.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  379.73 S769CA    Check Shelf
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Education and state -- United States.
Education -- Political aspects -- United States.
Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
Education -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00902728
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Bildungspolitik (DE-588)4006667-8
United States (DE-588)4078704-7
United States.
Indexed Term Education Political aspects United States
Education and state United States
Other Form: Online version: Spring, Joel H. Conflict of interests. 2nd ed. New York : Longman, ©1993 (OCoLC)607875933
ISBN 0801307899
9780801307898
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