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Author Spring, Joel H.

Title Political agendas for education : from the Christian Coalition to the Green Party / Joel Spring
Published Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1997

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Description viii, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education
Sociocultural, political, and historical studies in education.
Contents 1. The Christian Coalition, the 1996 Republican Platform, and the Contract With America. The Republican Party and the Christian Coalition. Morality and Democracy. Secular Humanism and Religious Freedom. Sex Education and Pornography. Multicultural Education. Liberal Domination of Education and Culture. Contract With America and Education -- 2. Think Tanks, Neoconservatives, and the Libertarian Party: Marketing School Choice and National Standards. Planning an Intellectual Revolution: The Trickle-Down Theory of Ideas. Libertarian Party: Walking Among the Pot-Smoking Nudist Right. Neoconservatives: Academic Standards, Choice, and Charter Schools. The Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute: Marketing Racism and School Reform. Conclusion: Marketing School Choice and National Standards -- 3. The Neoconservative Republican Agenda: Goals 2000, Privatization, and Charters. Neoconservatives, Business, and National Standards. Bush Republicans and Education
Standards and Tests: The Politics of Culture. Break-the-Mold Schools. For-Profit and Charter Schools -- 4. The New Democrats. Clinton and the New Democrats. Goals 2000 and the Skills-Mismatch Theory. Are the New Democrats Wrong? Inequality, Educational Inflation, and Skills-Mismatch Theory. The Politics of Educational Psychology. Reinventing the Government and the School. Multiculturalism and Affirmative Action -- 5. What's Left of the Left? Rainbow Coalition, National Organization for Women, Green Party, and Cultural Politics. The Rainbow Coalition. The National Organization for Women and The Feminist Majority. The Green Party. Cultural Politics. Conclusion: Angry White Males -- 6. Putting It Together
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Conservatism -- United States.
Education -- Political aspects -- United States.
Liberalism -- United States.
LC no. 97008976
ISBN 0805827668 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0805827676 (paperback: acid-free paper)