v. 1. Education under the security state / edited by David A. Gabbard and E. Wayne Ross --
General Editor's Introduction : Defending Public Schools, Defending Democracy / E. Wayne Ross --
Foreword / Peter McLaren --
Introduction : Defending Public Education from the Public / David A. Gabbard --
Part I. The Security State and the Traditional Role of Schools --
"Welcome to the Desert of the Real" : A Brief History of What Makes Schooling Compulsory / David A. Gabbard 3 --
The State, the Market, & (Mis)education / Takis Fotopoulos 15 --
Part II. Security Threats --
What Is The Matrix? What Is the Republic? : Understanding "The Crisis of Democracy" / David A. Gabbard --
Civic Literacy at Its Best : The "Democratic Distemper" of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) / John Marciano 43 --
A Matter of Conflicting Interests? : Problematizing the Traditional Role of Schools / Sandra Jackson 55 --
Part III. Security Measures : Defending Public Education from the Public --
RELOADED : The Security State and the New World Order / David A. Gabbard 75 --
The Hegemony of Accountability : The Corporate-Political Alliance for Control of Schools / Sandra Mathison and E. Wayne Ross 91 --
Neoliberalism and Schooling in the United States : How State and Federal Government Education Policies Perpetuate Inequality / David W. Hursh and Camille Anne Martina 101 --
State Theory and Urban School Reform I : A Reconsideration from Detroit / Barry M. Franklin 117 --
State Theory and Urban School Reform II : A Reconsideration from Milwaukee / Thomas C. Pedroni 131 --
Cooking the Books : Educational Apartheid with No Child Left Behind / Sheila L. Macrine 141 --
The Securitized Student : Meeting the Demands of Neoliberalism / Kenneth J. Saltman 157 --
Enforcing the Capitalist Agenda For and In Education : The Security State at Work in Britain and the United States / Dave Hill 175 --
Privatization and Enforcement : The Security State Transforms Higher Education / John F. Welsh 191 --
Schooling and the Security State / Julie Webber 207.
v. 2. Teaching for a democratic society / edited by Kathleen R. Kesson, E. Wayne Ross --
Introduction : Teaching for a Democratic Society / Kathleen R. Kesson --
Part I. Teacher Education and Teacher Development --
Cultivating Democratic Curriculum Judgments : Toward a Mature Profession / Kathleen R. Kesson and James G. Henderson 3 --
Finding the Color of the Sky : Inquiry in Teacher Preparation / Cecelia Traugh 17 --
Informing the Present, Illuminating the Past : Historical Knowledge and Teacher Development / Sonia E. Murrow 31 --
Standards, Testing, and Teacher Quality : Common Sense vs. Authority in Educational Reform / Paul Shaker 43 --
Part II. The Labor of Teaching --
A Dangerous, Lucid Hour : Compliance, Alienation, and the Restructuring of New York City High Schools / Paula M. Salvio 59 --
Pursuing Authentic Teaching in an Age of Standardization / Kevin D. Vinson, Rich Gibson, and E. Wayne Ross 79 --
An "Inhuman Power" : Alienated Labor in Low-Performing Schools / Kathleen R. Kesson 97 --
Gender and the Construction of Teaching / Susan Laird 111 --
Another Brick in the Wall : High-Stakes Testing in Teacher Education--
The California Teacher Performance Assessment / Perry M. Marker 123 --
Part III. Teaching for Social Justice --
Caring-Centered Multicultural Education : Addressing the Academic and Writing Needs of English Learners / Valerie Ooka Pang and Evangelina Bustamante Jones 137 --
The Role of Race in Teacher Education : Using Critical Race Theory to Develop Racial Consciousness and Competence / Tyrone C. Howard and Glenda R. Aleman 149 --
Thinking Inclusively about Inclusive Education / Mara Sapon-Shevin 161 --
Things to Come : Teachers' Work and the Broken Promises of Urban School Reform in an Age of High-Stakes Testing / Dennis Carlson 173.
v. 3. Curriculum continuity and change in the 21st century / edited by Kevin D. Vinson, E. Wayne Ross --
Curriculum and the Challenge of Change : An Introduction / Kevin D. Vinson and E. Wayne Ross --
Part I. History, Context, and the Future of the Public School Curriculum --
An Artful Curriculum/A Curriculum Full of Life / Rita L. Irwin 3 --
Old Wine in a New Bottle : Twentieth-Century Social Studies in a Twenty-First-Century World / Perry M. Marker 17 --
Literacy Research and Educational Reform : Sorting through the History and the Myths / Martha Rapp Ruddell 31 --
The Mathematics Curriculum : Prosecution, Defense, Verdict / Cynthia O. Anhalt, Robin A. Ward, and Kevin D. Vinson 47 --
Science in Public Schools : What Is It and Who Is It For? / Bruce Johnson and Elisabeth Roberts 61 --
Character Education : Coming Full Circle / Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs) 77 --
Not the Same Old Thing : Maria Montessori
A Nontraditional Approach to Public Schooling in an Age of Traditionalism and Standardization /
Elizabeth Oberle and Kevin D. Vinson 93 --
Part II. Critical Issues in Curriculum --
The Military and Corporate Roots of State-Regulated Knowledge / Stephen C. Fleury 107 --
Extreme Takeover : Corporate Control of the Curriculum, with Special Attention to the Case of Reading / Steven L. Strauss 119 --
The Body and Sexuality in Curriculum / Lisa W. Loutzenheiser 133 --
When Race Shows Up in the Curriculum : Teacher (Self- ) Reflective Responsibility in Students' Opportunities to Learn / H. Richard Milner, Leon D. Caldwell, and Ira E. Murray 149 --
Critical Multicultural Social Studies in the Borderlands : Resistance, Critical Pedagogy, and la lucha for Social Justice / Marc Pruyn, Robert Haworth, and Rebecca Sánchez 161 --
Schooling and Curriculum for Social Transformation : Reconsidering the Status of a Contentious Idea / William B. Stanley 173.
v. 4. The nature and limits of standards-based reform and assessment / edited by Sandra Mathison, E. Wayne Ross --
Introduction : The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment / Sandra Mathison and E. Wayne Ross --
Part I. History, Context, and the Future of Educational Standards and Assessment --
A Short History of Educational Assessment and Standards-Based Educational Reform / Sandra Mathison 3 --
Standards-Based Education : Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right / W. James Popham 15 --
The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement / Alfie Kohn 27 --
International Comparisons : Worth the Cost? / Gerald W. Bracey 35 --
Assessment, Accountability, and the Impossible Dream / Linda Mabry 49 --
Authentic Accountability : An Alternative to High-Stakes Testing / Ken Jones 57 --
Evaluation of Schools and Education : Bad Practice, Limited Knowledge / Sandra Mathison and Marco A. Muñoz 71 --
Part II. Perspectives on Standards and Assessment --
Teachers Working with Standards and State Testing / Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman 81 --
"Parental Involvement" : In Defense of What Kind of Vision for "Public" School? / Melissa Freeman 93 --
Leaving No Child Left Behind : Accountability Reform and Students with Disabilities / Margaret J. McLaughlin and Katherine M. Nagle 107 --
The Accumulation of Disadvantage : The Consequences of Testing for Poor and Minority Children / Sandra Mathison 121 --
Educational Leaders and Assessment-Based Reform / William A. Firestone 137 --
The Mismeasure and Abuse of Our Children : Why School Officials Must Resist State and National Standardized Testing Reforms / William C. Cala 149.
