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Civic Literacy: Working Bibliography

 

Adler, Mortimer.  How to Read a Book.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.

 

Andrews, James, and David Zarefsky.  American Voices: Significant Speeches in American History, 1640-1945.  New York: Longman, 1989.

 

Apple, Michael W.  Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age.  New           York: Routledge, 1993.

 

Barlett, D.L., and Steele, J.B.  America: What Went Wrong?  Kansas City, KS: Andrews & McMeel, 1992.

 

Becker, Carl L.  The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas.  New York: Random House, 1958.

 

Birkerts, Sven.  The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.  New York: Fawcette Books, 1995.

 

Bloom, Allan.  The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

 

Brown, Dee.  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West.  New York: Holt, 1991.

 

Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.

 

Chesney, James D., and Otto Feinstein.  Building Civic Literacy and Citizen Power.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1997.

 

Chomsky, Noam.  “The Manufacture of Consent.”  The Chomsky Reader.  Ed. J. Peck.  New York: Pantheon, 1987.  121-136.

 

Cummins, Jim.  Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society.  Ontario, CA: California Association for Bilingual Education, 1995.

 

Cummins, Jim, and Dennis Sayers.  Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

 

Dewey, John.  Experience and Education.  New York: Collier, 1963.

 

D’Souza, Dinesh.  Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus.  New York: Macmillan, 1991.

 

Downs, Robert B.  Books that Changed America.  New York: Macmillan, 1970.

 

Finkelman, Paul.  Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1997.

 

Freire, Paolo.  “Banking Education.”  The Hidden Curriculum and Moral Education: Deception or Discovery?  Ed. H. Giroux and D. Purpel.  Berkeley: McCutcheon, 1983.  283-291.

 

Giroux, Henri.  Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education.  New York: Routledge.

 

Giroux, Henri.  Living Dangerously: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference.  New York: Peter Lang, 1993.

 

Hacker, Andrew.  Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal.  New York: Ballantine, 1995 (Expanded and updated from 1992 edition).

 

Hirsch, E.D. Jr.  Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know.  New York: Vintage, 1988.

 

Hoffstetter, Fred T. Multimedia Literacy.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

 

Horgan, John.  The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age.  Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

 

Hughes, Robert.  Culture of Complaint: A Passionate Look into the Ailing Heart of America.  New York: Warner, 1994.

 

Jacoby, Russell.  Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Cultural Wars Divert Education and Distract America.  New York: Doubleday, 1994.

 

Jefferson, Thomas, et al.  The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson.  New York: Modern Library,

 

Kurziwell, Raymond.  The Age of Intelligent Machines.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.

 

Levy, Peter.  100 Key Documents in American Democracy.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

 

Lincoln, Abraham, et al.  Selected Speeches and Writings.  New York: Vintage, 1992.

 

Macedo, D.P.  Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

 

Maier, Pauline.  American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence.  New York: Vintage, 1998.

 

McLaren, Peter.  Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

 

Morehouse, Ward.  A New Civic Literacy: American Education and Global Interdependence: A Paper

 

Murphy, James J., ed.  The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing.  New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1982.

 

Nieto, Sonia.  Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education.  New York: Longman, 1992.

 

Ong, Walter J.  Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.  London: Methuen, 1982.

 

Paine, Thomas, and Mark Philip (Editor).  Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Writings.  New York: Oxford, 1995.

 

Patrick, John J.  Founding the Republic: A Documentary History.  Greenwood, 1995

 

Postman, Neil.  Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.  New York: Knopf, 1992.

 

Ravitch, Diane (Ed.) The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation.  New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

 

Ravitch, Diane, and C.E. Finn.  What Do Our 17-year  Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature.  New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

 

Reich, Robert.  The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism.  New York: Knopf, 1991.

 

Rickover, Hyman G.  Education and Freedom.  New York: Dutton, 1959. 

 

Roberts, J.M.  The Triumph of the West.  Barnes and Nobel reprint.

 

Rorty, Richard.  “Two Cheers for the Cultural Left.”  The Politics of Liberal Education.  Ed. Darryl J. Gless and Barbara Herrnstein Smith.  Durham: Duke, 1992.

 

Rosenblatt, Louise.  Literature as Exploration.

 

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.  The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society.  New York: Norton, 1992.

 

Sehr, David T., Peter McLaren and Henry Giroux.  Education for Public Democracy. New York State University Press, 1997.

 

Semali, Ladisalus and Watts Pailliotet.  Intermediality: the Teacher’s Handbook of Critical Media Literacy.  Westview Press, 1998

 

Shor, Ira.  Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change.  Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992.

 

Stotsky, Sandra.  Connecting Civic Education and Language Education: The Contemporary Challenge.  New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.

 

Sykes, Charles J.  Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves but Can’t Read, Write, or Add.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.

 

Takaki, Ronald.  A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.  Little Brown & Co., 1994.

 

Takaki, Ronald.  Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans.  New York: Penguin, 1990.

 

Weatherford, Jack.  Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America.  New York: Crown, 1991.

 

Writing for Women: Civic Education.  United Nations Educational, 1990

 

Zinn, Howard.  “Why Students Should Study History: An Interview with Howard Zinn.”  Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice.  Ed. B. Bigelow, et al.  Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, Ltd., 1994.  150-156.

 

Zubov, Shoshana.  In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

 

Articles, Presentations, etc.

 

Crease, Robert P., and Nicholas P. Samios.  “Managing the Unmanageable.”  The Atlantic Monthly  January 1991: 80-88.

 

Delpit, Lisa D.  “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children. Harvard Educational Review  58.3 (1988): 280-298.

 

Delpit, Lisa D.  “Education in a Multicultural Society: Our Future’s Greatest Challenge.”  Journal of Negro Education  61 (1992): 237-249.

 

Drucker, Peter.  “Beyond the Information Revolution.”  The Atlantic Monthly October 1999: 47-57.

 

D’Sousa, Dinesh.  “Illiberal Education.”  The Atlantic Monthly  March

1991: 52-79.

 

Edmundson, Mark.  “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students."” Harper’s September 1997: 39-49.

 

Gibson, William.  “Presentation to the convocation on Technology and Education, National Academy of Sciences.”  May 10, 1993.  Unpublished manuscript.

 

Gordon, Suzanne.  “A National Care Agenda.”  The Atlantic Monthly  March 1991: 64-68.

 

Gregory, Marshall W.  “Humanism’s Heat, Postmodernism’s Cool.”  The CEA Critic.  57.2 (Winter 1995): 1-25.

 

Halstead, Ted.  “A Politics for Generation X.”  The Atlantic Monthly August 1999: 33-42.

 

Hitchens, Christopher.  “Goodbye to All That: Why Americans Are Not Taught History.”  Harper’s November 1998: 37-47

 

Howe, H. II.  “America 2000: A Bumpy Ride on Four Trains.”  Phi Delta Kappan 73.3 (November 1991): 192-203.

 

Kaplan, Robert D.  “Was Democracy Just a Moment?”  The Atlantic December 1997: 55-80.

 

Lind, Michael.  “To Have and Have Not: Notes on the Progress of the American Class War.”  Harper’s June 1995: 35-47.

 

Manning, Steven.  “Students for Sale: How Corporations Are Buying Their Way into America’s Classrooms.”  The Nation September 27, 1999: 11-18.

 

McConnell, Scott.  “Americans No More: Can Assimilation Operate Today As It Did a Century Ago, or Is It Going into Reverse?”  National Review December 31, 1997

 

McKibben, Bill.  “A Special Moment in History.”  The Atlantic Monthly May 1998: 55-78.

 

Noble, D.  “The Regime of Technology in Education.”  Our Schools, Our Selves 5.3 (1994): 49-72.

 

O’Brien, Conor Cruise.  “Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist.”  The Atlantic Monthly October 1996: 53-74.

 

Oppenheimer, Todd.  “The Computer Delusion.”  The Atlantic Monthly July 1997: 45-62.

 

Pinsky, Robert.  “Poetry and American Memory.”  The Atlantic Monthly October 1999: 60-70.

 

Reiff, David and Michael Clough.  “Civil Society and the Future of the Nation State.”  The Nation February 22, 1999: 11-18.

 

Rifkin, Jeremy.  “Civil Society in the Information Age.”  The Nation February 26, 1996: 11-16.

 

Schwarz, Benjamin.  “What Jefferson Helps to Explain.”  The Atlantic Monthly March 1997: 60-72.

 

Shorris, Earl.  “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor.”  Harper’s September 1997: 50-59.

 

Thernstrom, Stephen.  “The Scandal of the Law Schools.  Commentary December 1997: 27-31.

 

Wilson, Douglas L.  “What Jefferson and Lincoln Read.”  The Atlantic Monthly  January 1991: 51-62.

 

Wilson, Edward O.  “Back from Chaos.”  The Atlantic Monthly March 1998: 41-62.

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