The Development of American Public Education

DOI:10.21742/AJEMR.2018.3.1.05

AUTHORS

Mohd Syakirin Ramli, Centre for Fundamental and Liberal Education, Universiti Malaysia, Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

The United States federal government's intervention in public education is a major and complex basic issue in American education research. It not only involves the study of American education policy, law, finance, management, and other issues but also relates to the understanding of the American public education governance system and public education system. In the history of the United States, it has been a long and tortuous process to verify that federal intervention has profoundly affected public education in the United States. The federal government's intervention in public education in the United States mainly appears in three modes: the granting of funds, the organizational control mode, and the cultural control mode. American public education has also moved closer to "homogenization" and "centralization" from a pattern of localism and decentralization. This is the cultural logic of "embedded" capitalism, which became the self-rescue logic of late capitalism to avoid the abyss of self-destruction, making the form of centralized cultural education an inevitable history of American public education.