Description: 1 Thinking Critically about History: Ideological Management, Culture Wars, and Consumerism 2 Religion and Authority in Colonial Education 3 Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Moral Reform in the New Republic 4 The Ideology and Politics of the Common School 5 The Common School and the Threat of Cultural Pluralism 6 Organizing the American School: The Nineteenth-Century Schoolmarm 7 Multiculturalism and the Failure of the Common School Ideal 8 Growth of the Welfare Function of Schools: School Showers, Kindergarten, Playgrounds, Home Economics, Social Centers, and Cultural Conflict 9 The School and the Workplace: High School, Junior High School, and Vocational Guidance and Education 10 Meritocracy: The Experts Take Charge 11 The Politics of Knowledge: Teachers Unions, the American Legion, and the American Way 12 Schools, Media, and Popular Culture: Influencing the Minds of Children and Teenagers 13 Education and National Policy 14 The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars 15 Education in the Twenty-First Century

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