Description: PART 1: SCHOOL AND SOCIETY Chapter 1: The Purposes of Public Schooling The Public Benefits of Schools Are Schools Always a Public Good? History and the Goals of Schooling The Political Goals of Schooling The Social Goals of Schooling Economic Goals Human Capital and the Role of Business in American Education Issues about Human Capitalism Chapter 2: Education and Equality of Opportunity The Common School Model The Sorting Machine The High-Stakes Testing Model Education and Income Gender, Educational Attainment, and Income Closing the Gap Between Men's and Women's Incomes Race, Educational Attainment, and Income Are Students Treated Equally? The Issue of Social Class Education, Social Class, and School Districts Education, Social Class, and Real Estate Brokers Shopping for a Public School Savage Inequalities Central City Schools Social Class and "At-Risk Students" Poverty Among School-Aged Children The End of the American Dream: School Dropouts Tracking and Ability Grouping Should Tracking and Ability Grouping Be Abolished? Social Reproduction Resistance Parental Involvement Chapter 3: Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs The Law, Race, and Equality of Educational Opportunity The Meaning of Race What Race Am I?: Racial and Cultural Self-Identification Race and Social Class The Economics of Racism Defining Racism Race, Social Class, and Equal Educational Opportunities Teaching About Racism The Future of Desegregation Second-Generation Segregation The Recent Struggle for Equal Education for Women Sexism and Education Students with Disabilities Public Law 94-142: Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) Writing an IEP Which Children Have Disabilities? Integrating Children with Disabilities into the Regular Classroom An Inclusion Success Story The Inclusion Debate President George W. Bush's Commission on Excellence in Special Education Chapter 4: Student Diversity Is It Hispanic or Latino? The Changing Population of U.S. Schools Educational Experiences of Immigrants to the United States Immigrant Languages Are U.S. Teachers Prepared for Language Diversity? Mexican American Students and U.S. Schools Asian American Students and U.S. Schools Native American Students and U.S. Schools Chapter 5: Multicultural Education Dominated Cultures: John Ogbu Empowerment through Multicultural Education: James Banks, Sonia Nieto, and Critical Pedagogy Educating for Economic Power: Lisa Delpit Ethnocentric Education Bilingual Education and English Language Acquisition: No Child Left Behind English Language Acquisition Act of 2001 Bicultural Education: Is This The Answer? Globalization: Language and Cultural Rights PART 2: POWER AND CONTROL IN AMERICAN EDUCATION Chapter 6: Local Control, Choice, Charter Schools, and Commercialism The Education Chair School Boards Who Knows Their School Board Members? Educational Bureaucracy Site-Based Management Home Schooling School Choice National Public School Choice Plan: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Public-Private Choice Plan: The State of Ohio's Pilot Project Scholarship Program Charter Schools Examples of Three Charter Schools "Do Charter Schools Measure Up?": 2002 Report of the American Federation of Teachers For-Profit Schools and Charters Edison Schools Inc.: A Tale of an Education Company in Search of Profit The Edison Design Commercialism in Schools Chapter 7: Power and Control at the State and National Levels: High-Stakes Testing, School Violence, The Reading and Math Wars, and Private Foundations Local, State, and Federal School Revenues Categorical Aid: The So

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