Critical issues in education : an anthology of readings / edited by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Educational thought in Western culture -- Introduction -- Prologue: modern and postmodern thought -- "Orientation" editorial for The social frontier (1934) / George S. Counts -- "The need for transcendence in the postmodern world" (1994) / Vaclav Havel -- The aims of education -- "My pedagogic creed" (1897) / John Dewey -- Cardinal principles of secondary education (1918) / National Education Association -- "A morally defensible mission for schools in the 21st century" (1997) / Nel Noddings -- Society and education -- Selection from notes on the state of Virginia (1781) / Thomas Jefferson -- "Thoughts upon the mode of education proper in a republic" (1786) / Benjamin Rush -- Selections from report no. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848) / Horace Mann -- Selection from Dare the schools build a new social order (1932) / George S. Counts -- Compulsory schooling, education, and the transmission of culture -- Massachusetts Compulsory School Law (1852) / General Court of Massachusetts -- Selection from Compulsory mis-education (1964) / Paul Goodman -- "Vulnerability in education" (1966) / Jules Henry -- "The banking model of education" (1970) / Paulo Freire -- "Why we must disestablish school" (1970) / Ivan Illich -- Sexuality and education -- Selection from A vindication of the rights of woman (1792) / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Seneca Falls declaration (1848) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Equal right amendment (1921) / Alice Paul -- Title IX (1972) / Congress of the United States -- "The absent presence: patriarchy, capitalism, and the nature of teacher work" (1987) / Patti Lather -- "A queer youth" (1996) / Paul H. Cottell, Jr -- "How and why boys under-achieve" (2000) / Wendy Bradford and Colin Noble -- Race, multiculturalism, and education -- Laws prohibiting the education of slaves (1830-1832) / General Assembly of the State of North Carolina; General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia; and the General Assembly of Alabama -- "Industrial education for the negro" (1903) / Booker T. Washington -- "The talented tenth" (1903) / W. E. B. Du Bois -- "A talk to teachers" (1963) / James Baldwin -- "Education for all handicapped children act" (1975) / Congress of the United States of America -- "Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism" (1988) / Henry Giroux -- "Multicultural education and school reform" (2001) / Sonia Nieto -- Social class and education -- Selection from Pygmalion in the classroom (1968) / Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson -- "Social class and the hidden curriculum of work" (1980) / Jean Anyon -- "Crossing class boundaries" (2000) / Bell Hooks -- Technology and education -- Augmenting human intellect (1962) / Douglas Engelbart -- "How computers contribute to the ecological crisis" (1990) / C.A. Bowers -- "The field: knowledge in computerized societies" (1979) / Jean-Fran÷cois Lyotard.