Joel Spring - American Education
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Seventeenth edition published 2016
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
and by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2016 Taylor & Francis
The right of Joel Spring to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
First edition published 2010 by Routledge
Sixteenth edition published 2013 by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Spring, Joel H.
American education / Joel Spring. Seventeenth edition.
pages cm. (Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in
education)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. EducationSocial aspectsUnited States. 2. EducationPolitical
aspectsUnited States. 3. Educational equalizationUnited States.
4. Education and stateUnited States. I. Title.
LC191.4.S684 2016
379.73dc23
2015008609
ISBN: 978-1-138-85092-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-85093-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-72446-1 (ebk)
Typeset in Sabon
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon, UK
In this 17th edition I have made extensive additions and deletions to improve readability and to update information and tables. In some chapters I have added new sections. Below is a list of changes and additions to each chapter.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Rearranged sections for improved readability.
- Added discussion of 2014 Colorado demonstrations over Advance Placement History.
- Added recent political controversies about the Common Core State Standards.
- Added 2014 response by Texas Freedom Network to Texas State School Boards decisions on textbooks and history curriculum.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added example of proposed sex education unit for kindergarteners.
- Added new teacher education standards for sex education issued by the Future of Sex Education.
- Added material on the effectiveness of sex education courses.
- Updated statistics on teenage pregnancies.
- Updated rates of sexually transmitted diseases among youth.
- Added material on educational discrimination of LGBTQ students.
- Added report that US adults consider character education more important than education for the economy.
- Updated statistics on violent and property crimes.
- Added description of 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
- Added material on school crime from the US Department of Educations The Condition of Education 2014.
- Added the Center for Disease Controls official definitions of bullying and cyberbullying.
- Updated statistics on bullying and cyberbullying.
- Added University of Michigan survey of concerns about childrens health.
- Updated statistics on obesity.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added new section: Testing and Skills as Predictors of Economic Conditions.
- Added new : Earnings by Educational Attainment.
- Added new : Lifetime Earnings by Educational Attainment, Gender, and Race.
- Replaced table on educational attainment and lifetime earnings with a more recent one.
- Added latest statistics on income inequality.
- Added New on differences in per pupil revenue between states and between school districts with differing concentrations of poverty.
- Added material on private fundraising to support schools in high-income school districts.
- Updated statistics on school dropouts.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Updated statistics on projections of future occupations and their educational requirements.
- Added statistics on growing income inequality in the US.
- Added arguments that investment in education can reduce income inequality.
- Added material on the distinction between soft and hard skills.
- Added new statistics on childhood poverty.
- Updated US government poverty thresholds.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added new statistics on foreign-born US population from Africa.
- Added material on Mexicans who are descended from Africans.
- Added 2014 statistics on school segregation.
- Added section on Title IX protecting transgender students and all other students, no matter what their sexual identity.
- Added material on meeting the goals of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Updated percentage of students with particular disabilities in public schools
- Added material on writing IEP.
- Added material from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations Guidelines for Inclusion: Ensuring Access to Education for All.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added discussion of non-whites as the new majority in US schools.
- Added 2014 US Census statistics on the number of foreign-born in the US population.
- Added a discussion of the Immigration Act of 1990.
- Added discussion of the 2014 Findings and Recommendations Prepared by the Bureau of Indian Education Study Group Submitted to the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Education.
- Added 2014 projected enrollments of Asian students.
- Added new table on educational attainment of foreign- and native-born citizens.
- Added new table on educational attainment of foreign-born by region of the world.
- Added new table on poverty levels of foreign-born.
- Added new table on percentage of the foreign-born population who spoke a language other than English at home.
- Added material on lack of preparation of teachers for instructing English Language Learners.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added section on Global Migration of the Worlds Peoples.
- Added material on the 2010 National Association for the Education of Young Children program Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves.
- Added material about the 2014 curriculum of the Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center: Perspectives for a Diverse America: A K-12 Literacy Based Anti-Bias Curriculum.
- Added material on continuing low scores of females on the SAT math test.
- Added material on helping girls achieve in STEM.
- Added material on continued bias against women in science classes.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added five new tables on the social composition of school boards.
- Added discussion of court decisions related to choice plans in Arizona and Indiana.
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