Girls and Exclusion

Rethinking the Agenda

By Audrey Osler, Kerry Vincent

The widespread view that girls are succeeding in education and are therefore 'not a problem' is a myth. By drawing directly on girls' own accounts...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30316-3 (Routledge)

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Education as Enforcement

The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools

Edited by Kenneth J. Saltman, David A. Gabbard

With surveillance cameras, chainlink fences, surprise searches and metal detectors our public schools increasingly resemble the military and prisons. The first book to focus...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94489-2 (Routledge)

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Access To Academics for All Students

Critical Approaches To Inclusive Curriculum, Instruction, and Policy

Edited by Paula Kluth, Diana M. Straut, Douglas P. Biklen

The authors of this book join a growing number of voices calling for teachers in diverse, inclusive schools to move beyond facilitating social participation in...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4166-4 (Routledge)

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Educating the Consumer-citizen

A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media

By Joel Spring

In Educating the Consumer-Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media, Joel Spring charts the rise of consumerism as the dominant American...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4274-6 (Routledge)

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History Lessons

Teaching, Learning, and Testing in U.S. High School Classrooms

By S.G. Grant

In this book, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with the extant research literature to explore current issues of...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4503-7 (Routledge)

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Readings for Bridging Cultures

Teacher Education Module

By Carrie Rothstein-Fisch

Readings for Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module is highly recommended for use by teacher-educators and professional development specialists who use Bridging Cultures: Teacher Education Module....

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4567-9 (Routledge)

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Schooling, the Puritan Imperative, and the Molding of An American National Identity

Education's "errand Into the Wilderness"

By Douglas McKnight

Present-day America is perceived by many as immersed in a moral crisis, with national identity fractured and uncertainty and anxiety about the future. Public schools...

2003 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-4317-0 (Routledge)

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Promises to Keep

Cultural Studies, Democratic Education, and Public Life

Edited by Greg Dimitriadis, Dennis Carlson

This book takes a serious look at the erosion of democratic public life and public education, and offers directions for re-imagining, re-designing, and re-inventing the...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94475-5 (Routledge)

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Dividing Classes

How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage

By Ellen Brantlinger

In this study of the school system of an Indiana town, Ellen Brantlinger studies educational expectations within segments of the middle class that have fairly...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93298-1 (Routledge)

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The State and the Politics of Knowledge

By Michael W. Apple

The State and the Politics of Knowledge extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Educating the "Right" Way in new and truly international directions....

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93513-5 (Routledge)

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