TY - BOOK AU - Spring, Joel TI - Conflict of interest: the politics of American education. SN - 0072405988 AV - LC89.S6 PY - 2002/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill N1 - 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 ER -