A Guide with Chapter References to Discussions of No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Preface PART 1: SCHOOL AND SOCIETY Chapter 1: The Goals of Public Schooling National Education Summit on High Schools: Who Determines the Public Interest? What is the Public Interest? Turning Public Goals into a Core Curriculum Getting the Core Curriculum into Schools Public Benefits and Goals for Schools Are Schools Always a Public Good? Historical Goals of Schooling The Political Goals of Schooling The Social Goals of Schooling The Economic Goals of Schooling Human Capital and the Role of Business in American Education Conclusion Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter Chapter 2: Education and Equality of Opportunity School Models for Equality of Opportunity The Common-School Model The Sorting-Machine Model The High-Stakes Testing Model Education and Income The Bias of Labor Market Conditions on Educational Attainment, Income, and Gender White Privilege: Race, Educational Attainment, and Income The Asian Advantage: Race, Household Income, and Education Cultural Capital: Child-Rearing and Equality of Opportunity Cultural Capital: Preschool and Equality of Opportunity Schooling: Why Are the Rick Getting Richer and the Poor Getting Poorer? Shopping for a Public School: Education, Social Class, and School Districts Savage Inequalities Central City Schools Social Class and At-Risk Students Poverty Among School-Aged Children The End of the American Dream: School Dropouts Tracking and Ability Grouping Should Tracking and Ability Grouping Be Abolished? Social Reproduction Resistance Conclusion Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter Chapter 3: Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs The Law, Race, and Equality of Educational Opportunity The Meaning of Race What Race Am I?: Racial and Cultural Self-Identification Race and Social Class School Segregation Today Second-Generation Segregation The Economics of Racism Defining Racism Institutional Racism: Relationship Between Racial Segregation and High School Dropouts Disparity in Educational Funding Based on Race Race, Social Class, and Equal Educational Opportunities Teaching About Racism The Recent Struggle for Equal Education for Women Sexism and Education What's Happening to the Boys in the New Gender Divide? Students with Disabilities Public Law 94-142: Education for All Handicapped Children Act Writing an IEP Which Children Have Disabilities? Inclusion Inclusion and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 An Inclusion Success Story The Inclusion Debate Commission on Excellence in Special Education Conclusion Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter Chapter 4: Student Diversity Foreign-Born Population of the United States Is It Hispanic or Latino? The Changing Population of U.S. Schools Educational Experiences of Immigrants to the United States Languages of School-Age Children Are U.S. Teachers Prepared for Language Diversity? Mexican American Students and U.S. Schools Asian American Students and U.S. Schools Native American Students and U.S. Schools Conclusion Suggested Readings and Works Cited in Chapter Chapter 5: Multicultural Education Different Ways of Knowing and Seeing the World Biculturalism: Collectivist and Individualist Societies Dominated Cultures: John Ogbu Empowerment through Multicultural Education: James Banks, Sonia Nieto, and Critical Pedagogy Educating for Economic Power: Lisa Delpit Ethnocentric Education Bilingual Education and English Language Acquisition: No Child Left Behind English Language Acquisition Act of 2001 Bicultural Education: Is This The Answer? Globalization: Language and Cultural Rights Conclusion Suggested Readings and Works Cited in
