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"Featuring current information and challenging perspectives on the latest issues and forces shaping the American educational system-with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source-Joel Spring introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States"--

Brief Contents. Preface -- Deculturalization, Native Americans and American History: 1619 and 1776 Projects -- Native Americans: Institutional Racism and Deculturalization -- African Americans: Globalization and the African Diaspora -- Asian Americans: Exclusion and Segregation -- Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx Americans: Exclusion and Segregation -- The Great Civil Rights Movement and the New Culture Wars Globalization: The Great Civil Rights Movement and Wars of Liberation -- Twenty-First Century: Resegregation, White Supremacy and Teaching Corporate Culture.

chapter 1 The Republican Education Agenda: Free Markets and Religion -- chapter 2 Religion and Culture in the Republican Education Agenda -- chapter 3 Democrats: Provide Quality and Affordable Public Education -- chapter 4 Banks, Investment Firms and the Education Business -- chapter 5 The Democratic Left, the Green and Libertarian Parties -- chapter 6 New Agenda for American Schools.

In this timely analysis of the current state of global educational policies, Joel Spring focuses on thespread of the Western school model and its impact on creating an urban-consumer culture, increasing economic inequalities, contributing to environmental destruction and diminishing compassion and empathy essential for energizing social justice movements. In his signature straightforward, concise style, Spring describes and analyzes the school's role in displacing religious with secular values, promoting nationalism, preparing students to work in global corporations, supporting cultural and linguistic homogeneity, and discusses related goals and effects of anti-globalization movements such as the Alt-right, Anti-fascist groups, radical environmentalism and anarchism. An important addition to Spring's body of work on global educational policies, this provocative book challenges readers to re-examine what they know about education, globalization and their interconnections.

Globalization of education -- The World Bank : economic education model, the economization of education, and the audit state -- The World Ministry of Education and Human Rights Education : OECD and the United Nations -- The World Trade Organization and the global culture of higher education -- Corporatiation of global education : profit opportunity and resistance to corporatization -- Religious and indigenous education models : a clash of civilizations? -- A global workforce : migration and the talent auction -- Globalization and complex thought : is there a theory of educational globalization?

1. Corporatism, social control, and cultural domination : from the radical right to globalization -- 2. The corporate state and schools -- 3. Anarchist critics of public schools -- 4. Free schools and deschooling -- 5. Choctaw tribal roots -- 6. Alaskan island -- 7. The politics of knowledge -- 8. Education and globalization -- 9. Consumer capitalism and schools -- 10. New goals for global schools : long life and happiness -- 11. Global educational rights and proposed constitutional amendment.

1. Introduction: The politics of education and the politics of knowledge -- 2. What do people talk about when they talk about schools? -- 3. From the local to the global in school governance -- 4. Civil society and schooling -- 5. Politicians and educational ideologies -- 6. The education business : making money and influencing schools -- 7. Politics of school finance and the economics of education -- 8. Global education politics and the United States -- 9. Political control of education in the democratic society : proposal for amendment to U.S. Constitution.

In this ground-breaking book, Joel Spring examines globalization and its worldwide effects on education. A central thesis is that industrial-consumerism is the dominant paradigm in the integration of education and economic planning in modern economic security states. In the twenty-first century, national school systems have similar grades and promotion plans, instructional methods, curriculum organization, and linkages between secondary and higher education. Although there are local variations, the most striking feature is the sameness of educational systems. How did this happen? How was educa

Joel Spring investigates the role of educational policy in the evolving global economy, and the consequences of school systems around the world adapting to meet the needs of international corporations. The new global model for education addresses problems