Thinking critically about history: ideological management and the culture wars -- Religion and education in colonial education -- The Ghost Dance and the schooling of Native Americans -- Nationalism, multiculturalism, and moral reform in the new republic -- The common school and the threat of cultural pluralism -- The ideology and politics of the common school -- Organizing the American school: the Nineteenth-Century schoolmarm -- Educational racism: Native Americans and Asian Americans -- Hispanic/Latino Americans: exclusion and segregation -- Education and segregation: African Americans -- Growth of the welfare function of schools: school showers, kindergarten, playgrounds, and social centers -- The school and the workplace: high school, junior high school, and vocational guidance and education -- Meritocracy: the experts take charge -- The politics of knowledge: teachers unions, American Legion, radicalism, movies, and radio -- Education and national policy -- The great civil rights movement and the new culture wars -- The end of the century.
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