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Conflict of interests : the politics of American education
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- Creator
- Joel Spring
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Fifth edition
- Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xii, 228 pages, I-14 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 007287578X, 9780072875782
- OCLC
- ocm54034940
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Education and American global power: the political road to No child left behind -- Sources of conflict: power, knowledge, and interest groups -- Sources of conflict: the politics of school finance and the economics of education -- Sources of conflict: the educational establishment -- Political organization and student achievement -- Reinvention of the school and government: the changing political face of public education -- State politics of education -- Local politics of education -- The knowledge industry -- The political uses of the courts -- The political control of education in a free society