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Title: The American School: 1642-1996 by Joel H. Spring ISBN: 0-07-060560-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 17 July, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $56.10

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (6 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Dreary and politically correct
Comment: I cannot recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the history of American education. It is loaded with the author's leftist political opinions. Its subtitle should be "A Marxist Interpretation of American Educational History." The author is one of the '60s radicals who never left the campus and who understands little or nothing about the lives of our nation's public school teachers and children, not now and not in the past. Readers who want a good read as well as accurate history would be better off reading David Tyack or Diane Ravitch.

Rating: 1
Summary: What an awful book!
Comment: This is a very boring book to read. The author is extremely "politically correct" with predictable leftist views. Unfortunately he feels he must push his views on the reader with his tendentious rendering of history. Avoid it!

Rating: 5
Summary: excellent
Comment: This book does a very good job of illustrating the struggles of various minority groups in the US. It provides an excellent emphasis on the historical status of how these groups came to be influenced by American Education-- which only promoted Anglo, Protestant, and middle-class values instead of multicultural ones. It showed how these groups struggled against and adapted to these restrictive educational principles and the book also questions whether or not we should place value on an education which only represents one view of our multicultural society. There are so many subjects of our society which are presented in this book-- from media to religion, capitalism, school board composition (and how most boards lack women and are represented by buisiness interests), segregation, deculturalization and politics-- even though it is a bit over-priced, it contains much priceless knowledge!

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