Spring, Joel

Conflict of interest: the politics of American education. / Joel, Spring - Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002. - ix, 218 p.: 24cm.

Includes index.

Contents: Educational politicians -- Sources of conflict: power and knowledge -- 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, systematic reform and federal policies -- 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.

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LC89.S6