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Tables of Contents for Conflict of Interests
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xii
1 Education and American Global Power: The Political Road to No Child Left Behind
1
31
Education for American Global Dominance
1
3
Education and Global Economic Power
4
3
Cultural Conflict and American Global Expansion
7
2
Building Political Careers on Education and Economic Expansion: Bill Clinton
9
2
The Corporate Sector and the Pursuit of Economic Dominance
11
2
Education Becomes a Central Issue in National Politics
13
3
George W. Bush: Educational Politician
16
5
No Child Left Behind: The Triumph of the Global Economic Model
21
1
No Child Left Behind: Fostering Religion in Public Schools
22
3
No Child Left Behind and America's Territorial Expansion
25
2
Conclusion
27
5
2 Sources of Conflict: Power, Knowledge, and Interest Groups
32
39
Conflicts Between Educational and Administrative Politicians
33
1
Educationists: The Progressive Reaction to the Standards and Testing Movement
34
5
Administrative Politicians
39
2
Boards of Education
41
2
Special-Interest Groups
43
1
Teachers' Unions
44
1
The Corporate Sector
45
1
Foundations
45
5
Other Interest Groups
50
3
Power and Knowledge
53
2
Conflicts over Knowledge and Power
55
2
Knowledge as an Instrument of Power
57
1
Knowledge and Economic Power
58
2
Power and Culture
60
2
Power and Language
62
1
School Knowledge and Religion
63
2
Conclusion
65
6
3 Sources of Conflict: The Politics of School Finance and the Economics of Education
71
23
Politics of School Finance
71
1
Maximizing Benefits and Reducing Costs
72
2
The Politics of Unequal School Financing
74
2
Basic Economic Questions
76
12
Who Should Pay?
76
3
How Should Educational Monies Be Distributed?
79
5
How Should Money for Education Be Collected?
84
2
How Much Money Should Be Spent on Education?
86
2
The Economics of Schooling in the New World Order
88
3
Conclusion
91
3
4 Sources of Conflict: The Educational Establishment
94
8
The Revolt against Bureaucracy
94
1
Power
95
2
Teacher Power
97
2
Power and Money
99
2
Conclusion
101
1
5 Political Organization and Student Achievement 102
Student Achievement and Equality of Educational Opportunity
102
2
Democracy versus the Market
104
2
Politics and Second-Generation Segregation
106
2
Political Content
108
2
Student Achievement and Standardized Minds through State Testing and Standards
110
2
Conclusion
112
5
6 Reinvention of the School and Government: The Changing Political Face of Public Education 115
Reinventing the School
117
1
Analyzing National Educational Policy
118
1
Grassroots Movements
119
3
Political Strategy
122
4
National Policy Concerns
126
1
The Politics of Implementation
127
3
Politicians and Interest Groups
130
1
Conclusion
131
6
7 State Politics of Education
l35
Patterns of State Educational Politics
137
2
Patterns of State Control
139
1
Politicallnfluence
140
4
Centralization and Teachers' Unions
144
2
Sources of Political Change
146
4
Grassroots Movement
146
1
Political Strategies
147
2
General Policy Concerns
149
1
The Nationalization of State Policies
150
4
Conclusion
154
3
8 Local Politics of Education
157
29
Rod Paige: From Superintendent to Secretary of Education
157
2
The Composition of School Boards
159
1
Patterns in Local Politics of Education
160
2
Dominated Communities
162
4
Factional Communities
166
3
Pluralistic Communities
169
1
Inert Communities
170
3
Educational Bureaucracies
173
3
Teachers' Unions
176
4
Site-Based Management
180
1
Conclusion
181
5
9 The Knowledge Industry
186
20
The Myth of Neutral Knowledge
187
6
The Textbook Industry
193
6
The Testing Industry
199
4
Conclusion
203
3
10 The Political Uses of the Courts
206
16
Constitutionallssues
207
4
The Otero Case
211
4
Hobson v. Hansen
215
4
Conclusion
219
3
11 The Political Control of Education in a Free Society
222
The Problem of Majoritarian Control
222
2
The Power of Special-Interest Groups
224
2
The Political Use of Schools
226
1
Educators and Social Improvement
227
1
The Economics of Education
227
1
Conclusion
227
Index
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