Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives, providing a comprehensive, thought-provoking overview.
"Alberta stands as a model of radical education reform in Canada. Standardized exams, school accountability, lean budgets, and "market" choice are rapidly transforming the nature of education in the province." "But reform is not necessarily right or good, especially if undertake…
America's great research universities are the envy of the world--and none more so than Harvard. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fun…
US-based scholars of education and social sciences of whom one grew up in Japan and two in China discuss Japanese education as a construction of American projections, and demonstrate new, more sophisticated, and more nuanced research in the field.
US-based scholars of education and social sciences of whom one grew up in Japan and two in China discuss Japanese education as a construction of American projections, and demonstrate new, more sophisticated, and more nuanced research in the field.
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities who had considered race a biological fact began to view it as a cultural and envir…
Asserts that Brazilian mid-century educational reforms, designed to end rigid, race-based exclusions and to incorporate the poor, did so by stressing whiteness as the primary characteristic of modernity.
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To combat the "vampires" of our society and to isolate the systematic ways in which our once productive industries and our government have been breached, Ratigan provides readers with a set of values that together form the answer for how each of us can not only understand what h…