From the New Deal to the war on schools : race, inequality, and the rise of the punitive education state /
Daniel S. Moak.
- xii, 326 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The politics of the federal education state : faith in education and the turn toward punitiveness Part I. From political economy to equal opportunity : the struggle over ideas, 1932-1965. To reconstruct or adjust? The battle within the progressive education movement, 1920s-1940s The achievement of civil rights within the status quo : race and class in black political visions, 1930s-1950s Courts, communism, and commercialism : the rise of the liberal incorporationist coalition Part II. From ideology to institutionalization : the foundations of the federal education state, 1965-1980. The great society and the ideological origins of the federal education state From belief to blame : federal funding and the punitive policy shift Conclusion: The enduring legacy of the liberal incorporationist education state : persistence and possibility in the current era
"In an era defined by political polarization, both major U.S. parties have come to share a remarkably similar understanding of the education system as well as a set of punitive strategies for fixing it. Combining an intellectual history of social policy with a sweeping history of the educational system, Daniel S. Moak looks beyond the rise of neoliberalism to find the origin of today's education woes in Great Society reforms"--
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Education--History--United States--20th century. Educación--Historia --Estados Unidos --Siglo XX Racism in education--History--United States--20th century. Racismo en la educación --Historia --Estados Unidos --Siglo XX Discrimination in education--History--United States--20th century. Discriminación en la educación--Historia --Estados Unidos --Siglo XX
United States--Social policy--20th century. Estados Unidos--Política social--Siglo XX