Index

A
Addams, Jane, 25, 30, 49, 66, 98, 122, 123, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 136, 170, 176, 178, 408, 463
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), 435, 460
Adorno, Theodore, 413, 430
Africa, 4, 24, 110, 326, 356, 401, 485, 495
Alm, Richard S., 40, 58, 424, 428
Altruism, 415
Amadeus, 381, 476
Americanize, 343, 422
Americanized, 192, 209
Amoroso
Archimedes, 69
Aristotle, 330, 384, 406, 414, 419
Aronowitz, David, 424, 428

B
Bandura, Albert, 424, 458, 460
Berlin, Irving, 216
Berlin, Isaiah, 370
Biracial, 472, 474
Bosco
Brahmin, 52, 192, 214, 220, 232, See Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Britton, James, 423, 424, 445, 452, 460

C
Canada, 395, 452, 495
Capitalism, 104, 105, 108, 109, 144, 173, 212, 285
Carib Indian, 362
Caribbean, 4, 42, 187, 362, 442, 462
Antigua, 362
Trinidad and Tobago, 358
U.S. Virgin Islands, 349, 358, 372, 495, 496
Saint Croix, 358, 477
Carr, Connie. See Amoroso, Connie (Concetta)
Casco Bay Project for Work Place Education, 453
Catcher in the Rye, 45, 62, 312, 354
Holden Caulfield, 45, 312, 313
Catholic, 5, 8, 52, 95, 115, 137, 146, 151, 193, 194, 212, 216, 218, 232, 238, 277, 278, 279, 281, 294, 296, 297, 305, 310, 311, 325, 347, 353, 354, 410, 466
China, 413
Chomsky, Carol, 364, 366, 367, 392
Chomsky, Noam, 24, 392, 394, 406, 423, 425, 426, 428
Christian, 8, 35, 55, 96, 100, 167, 168, 175, 212, 405, 410
Civil Rights Act, 299
Class System
medieval class system, 412
modern class system, 412
Coles, Gerald, 448
Coles, Robert, 49, 418, 424, 425, 428
Connecticut, 72, 79, 85, 93, 123, 160, 243, 269, 286
Middletown, 72, 85, 87, 93, 99, 118, 123, 150, 151, 161, 183, 266, 340
Conservative, 40, 41, 96
Conservatives, 41, 92, 425, 438
Constructivism, 15, 21, 477
Constructivist, 392, 425, 477, 482
Cosmopolis, defined, 411, 414
Critical Theory, 7, 28, 41, 53, 420
Critical Social Theory, 413
Cuba, 324, 449, 458, 495
Cubans, 453
Cuban Literacy Campaign, 43
Cullum, Albert, 380, 394, 473

D
Darwin, Charles, 190, 286, 413, 414, 415
Democracy, 10, 26, 125, 127, 131, 134, 135, 141, 163, 173, 180, 274, 284, 285, 291, 336, 399, 415, 432
Department of Education, 6, 40, 60, 63, 155, 353, 433, 460
Descartes, René, 47, 174, 175, 406, 411, 412, 423, 429
Cartesian, 46, 406, 413, 428
Dewey, John, 13, 18, 25, 30, 31, 41, 48, 55, 58, 66, 98, 103, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 141, 168, 170, 171, 172, 176, 177, 180, 181, 235, 249, 279, 285, 299, 336, 337, 349, 351, 361, 366, 394, 395, 406, 408, 413, 416, 419, 421, 422, 423, 429, 480, 489
Discrimination, 106, 182, 189, 192, 193, 203, 231, 365, 419
Disney, 227, 309, 351, 356, 367
Dreiser, Theodore, 25, 30, 31, 49, 103, 106, 137, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 173, 177, 185, 216, 218, 266, 349, 351, 409
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 24, 96, 98, 177

E
Egypt
Suez Canal, 69, 92, 99, 402
Einstein, Albert, 56, 68, 330, 413, 432
Elkind, David, 45, 58, 168, 177, 347, 351, 368, 377, 395, 424, 429, 434, 460
The Hurried Child, 58, 351, 377, 395, 424, 429
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 73, 477
“The Rhodora”, 477
Enlightenment, 46, 55, 175, 190, 191, 405, 406, 409, 412, 413, 430
Erasmus, 406, 410, 477
Erickson, Erik, 58, 424

F
Fasolino, Stella. See Amoroso (Henry Sr’s Family), Stella (Mother)
Feminism, 175
Women’s Suffrage, 106, 129
Fictional Characters
Durlamo, 30, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 88, 202, 257
Felia, 12, 17, 33, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 119, 121, 462
Marina, 30, 74, 78, 79, 81, 85, 86, 87, 91, 103, 104, 105, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 118, 119, 121, 123, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 136, 137, 138, 140, 142, 143, 144, 145, 148, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162, 185, 202, 408
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 25, 26, 30, 49, 53, 67, 87, 89, 94, 95, 98, 100, 103, 106, 108, 120, 122, 142, 161, 173, 174, 177, 178, 436, 460
Fordham University, 44, 383, 388
Freire, Paulo, 33, 35, 37, 42, 43, 46, 49, 54, 59, 167, 364, 381, 395, 441, 442, 449, 458, 460, 464, 469
French Revolution, 219, 413
Frost, Robert, 100, 167, 214, 275

G
Galilei, Galileo, 406, 410, 411
Garafolo. See Bosco, Giuseppina’s Husband, Sebastiano Garafolo
Gardner, Howard, 33, 37, 45, 59, 169, 178, 287, 288, 293, 429
Gatto, John Taylor, 426, 429, 464, 470, 474, 485, 488, 490
Giroux, Henry, 33, 37, 40, 43, 59, 63, 352, 405, 428, 487
Golden Rule, 35
Goldman, Emma, 25, 26, 30, 31, 48, 49, 58, 67, 74, 87, 95, 99, 103, 122, 124, 128, 161, 170, 173, 174, 177, 178, 188, 408, 416, 463
Goodman, Kenneth, 55, 59, 392, 395, 396, 419, 423, 425, 429, 430, 474, 485
Goodson, Ivor, 420, 430, 474, 485, 486, 489, 490
Gordon
Gramsci, Antonio, 35, 37, 49, 53, 59, 97, 99, 225, 293, 408, 409, 418, 430, 463
Greek, 30, 32, 69, 73, 110, 111, 123, 125, 126, 170, 186, 217, 284, 411, 413
Athens, 69, 190, 218, 219
Gulizia, Salvatore (“Salvi,” the Music Teacher), 52, 92, 94, 185, 199, 200, 208, 217, 228, 229, 230, 269

H
Hall, G. Stanley, 424
Heidegger, Martin, 275, 406, 413, 430
Hildreth, Gertrude, 54, 60, 283, 293, 423
Hine, Lewis, 25, 30, 49, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 151, 154, 156, 157, 158, 172, 178, 222, 247
Hobbes, Thomas, 60, 405, 430
Hoffer, Eric, 48, 49, 60, 349, 352, 409
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 192, 214, 220, See Brahmin
Horkeheimer, Max, 413
Hugo, Victor, 472, 486
Humanists, 410, 413
Hume, David, 220, 406, 412, 419

I
Illiteracy, 4, 40, 42, 44, 419, 488
illiterate, 26, 32, 35, 40, 43, 48, 93, 129, 171, 189, 193, 334, 354, 399, 439, 440, 442, 465, 495
Immigration, 26, 48, 92, 93, 95, 149, 171, 192, 209, 212, 214, 238, 276, 283, 286, 400, 426, 452
Immigrant, 4, 26, 32, 40, 53, 56, 81, 93, 94, 98, 100, 119, 125, 162, 174, 184, 189, 207, 212, 219, 221, 228, 236, 238, 276, 279, 281, 295, 327, 334, 335, 358, 362, 400, 408, 422, 429, 495
Immigrants, 31, 32, 53, 54, 66, 73, 92, 94, 95, 96, 103, 106, 115, 125, 129, 137, 138, 152, 156, 157, 162, 171, 173, 174, 185, 187, 189, 191, 192, 212, 214, 215, 216, 220, 223, 232, 236, 238, 241, 247, 261, 276, 292, 293, 295, 296, 399, 400, 402, 403, 408
India, 413
Ireland, 106, 192, 332
Irish, 35, 73, 76, 77, 94, 98, 106, 125, 185, 186, 187, 189, 191, 192, 199, 214, 220, 221, 231, 232, 237, 238, 247, 261, 276, 277, 279, 293, 294, 295, 308, 314, 327, 343, 399
Irwin, Grace, 422, 430
Italia, S. S., 71, 93, 98
Italy, 51, 84, 92, 93, 116, 119, 123, 196, 198, 212, 213, 215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 245, 265, 272, 295, 307, 308, 322, 334, 400, 422
Italians, 81, 88, 92, 93, 159, 186, 187, 192, 200, 215, 257, 271, 276, 277, 281, 297, 301, 302, 306, 314, 322, 326, 343, 354, 400
IWW (International Workers of the World), 80, 87, 89, 94, 95, 99, 100, 106, 108, 113, 128, 174, 177, 183

K
Kant, Immanuel, 35, 37, 175, 407, 412, 419, 431
Keillor, Garrison, 363, 395
Kennedy, Rose, 24, 31, 231, 278
King Jr., Martin Luther, 299, 330, 352, 375, 379, 403, 477
Kohn, Alfie, 41, 60, 471, 474, 486, See also Praise
Kozol, Jonathan, 42, 60, 449, 452, 461, 474, 486

L
Lawson, Candy, 424, 431
Lee, Harper, 473
Literacy, 4, 5, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 100, 167, 193, 210, 225, 276, 281, 300, 310, 318, 320, 332, 337, 338, 341, 346, 347, 353, 357, 358, 363, 364, 365, 369, 372, 392, 397, 399, 405, 408, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 423, 424, 425, 426, 432, 433, 437, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 446, 447, 449, 452, 453, 458, 462, 463, 465, 467, 470, 473, 483, 485, 488, 489, 495, 496
Literate, 4, 30, 43, 190, 217, 225, 371, 377, 426, 439, 445, 447, 463, 473
Locke, John, 423
Louis XIV, King, 412
Luther, Martin, 174, 410

M
Maine, 6, 10, 43, 75, 106, 114, 213, 221, 232, 260, 316, 317, 342, 372, 377, 381, 384, 386, 389, 442, 452, 453, 454, 461, 472, 476, 495
Marcellus, Claudius, 71
Marchesi (Friends of the Boscos), 71, 267
Marxism, 41
Maslow, Abraham, 424, 464
Massachusetts, 4, 30, 51, 73, 95, 98, 100, 101, 107, 120, 122, 131, 164, 167, 202, 212, 213, 214, 220, 221, 223, 279, 293, 337, 350, 399, 400, 408, 425, 495
Boston
Boston Public Library, 52, 192, 235, 279, 280, 291
Bostonians, 188, 189, 190, 192, 213, 279
North End, 11, 12, 17, 31, 52, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 182, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190, 192, 193, 195, 200, 202, 204, 216, 219, 228, 231, 232, 233, 240, 245, 266, 272, 273, 278, 289, 297
Lawrence, 4, 11, 12, 16, 24, 30, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 61, 63, 69, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 100, 101, 103, 107, 122, 123, 124, 136, 141, 143, 154, 162, 167, 172, 182, 183, 191, 208, 209, 210, 212, 213, 220, 223, 251, 252, 253, 257, 270, 278, 293, 294, 350, 353, 354, 401, 478
Quincy, 13, 19, 31, 51, 52, 84, 92, 95, 96, 101, 122, 123, 132, 134, 188, 200, 203, 204, 205, 206, 209, 217, 230, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 243, 245, 246, 247, 249, 250, 251, 253, 254, 255, 259, 261, 262, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 272, 273, 283, 285, 288, 291, 295, 296, 301, 302, 303, 315, 316, 317, 324, 326, 327, 331, 332, 333, 334, 336, 348, 399, 408, 495
Meritocracy, 413, 414, 415, 480
Mill, John Stuart, 35
Montaigne, Michel de, 47, 61, 311, 384, 406, 409, 410, 411
Montessori, Maria, 25, 55, 61, 116, 117, 118, 119, 134, 158, 167, 168, 177, 178, 179, 368, 369, 371, 372, 374, 380, 389, 395, 406, 471, 475, 482, 486, 487
Myers, Brian, 419
“A Reader’s Manifesto”, 420

N
NCLB. See No Child Left Behind
New York City, 11, 12, 17, 30, 53, 66, 68, 93, 95, 98, 99, 100, 103, 106, 108, 117, 125, 145, 157, 169, 170, 179, 180, 182, 185, 227, 272, 294, 299, 318, 334, 356, 378, 388, 389, 422, 437, 448
Ellis Island, 48, 52, 53, 54, 71, 76, 93, 149, 151, 152, 156, 157, 160, 173, 174, 212, 219
Grand Central Terminal, 123, 124, 126, 170, 171, 184
Newton, Isaac, 412
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 168, 173, 175, 178, 179, 275, 406, 431
No Child Left Behind, 41, 49, 61, 356, 425, 429, 433, 452, See NCLB
Normans, 185, 402

O
Organic Primer, 449, 450

P
Parker, Francis Wayland, 13, 19, 25, 30, 31, 49, 55, 103, 122, 123, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 170, 179, 247, 265, 299, 314, 319, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 347, 348, 351, 354, 361, 406, 408, 423, 425
Peace Corps, 342, 358
Vista, 341, 344, 358, 495
Pedagogy, 4, 33, 41, 46, 50, 53, 54, 59, 61, 132, 179, 333, 336, 347, 375, 394, 405, 418, 420, 423, 445, 488, 489
Penna, Anthony N., 33, 37
Piaget, Jean, 167, 364, 368, 392, 395, 396, 423, 428
Planck, Max, 413
Plato, 8, 9, 10, 44, 63, 131, 311, 330, 364, 384, 396, 413, 416, 431, 477
Postmodern, 41
Postmodernism, 175
Poverty, 26, 31, 40, 44, 45, 48, 59, 66, 77, 104, 105, 107, 129, 137, 138, 146, 191, 192, 193, 210, 213, 231, 240, 241, 268, 286, 290, 347, 400, 409, 419, 426
Praise, 164, 369, 371, 374, 435, 463, 471, 478, 487, See also Zentall, Shannon and Kohn, Alfie
Private School vs. Public School, 479
Progressive, 33, 35, 40, 48, 53, 90, 117, 122, 125, 132, 168, 285, 337, 391, 418, 421, 424, 425, 464
Progressives, 41, 169, 225, 249, 250, 420
Protestant, 96, 100, 171, 173, 174, 176, 281, 285, 298, 334, 347, 353, 399, 410
Puritan, 55, 176, 189, 190, 213, 404
Puritans, 174, 190, 247
Puzo, Mario, 174, 216, 221, 339, 349, 354, 402, 409, 431, 465

R
Racism, 48, 49, 59, 176, 223, 227, 360, 413, 470, 476
Rand, Ayn, 35, 285
Renaissance, 170, 216, 279, 406, 410, 411, 413, 415, 472
Riis, Jacob, 49, 221
Rist, Ray, 33, 37
Rodgers, Carl, 424, 457, 464
Roman, 71, 96, 110, 123, 125, 167, 170, 192, 200, 215, 216, 303, 382, 395
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 35, 37, 47, 62, 213, 222, 406, 412, 423
Ruth, Babe, 57, 68, 118, 198, 247, 248, 324

S
School Athletics, 284, 480
Science, 46, 50, 66, 103, 118, 119, 120, 125, 128, 132, 155, 176, 177, 190, 219, 230, 278, 284, 336, 337, 348, 355, 373, 379, 382, 406, 408, 413, 416, 422, 426, 439, 469, 476
Scientific Method, 54, 406, 422
Shannon, Patrick, 47, 62, 334, 348, 354, 425, 428, 432, 434
Shaw, George Bernard, 24, 35, 37, 49, 62, 125, 161, 180, 408
Sicily, 30, 51, 52, 63, 69, 70, 71, 72, 75, 79, 80, 81, 92, 93, 99, 100, 101, 103, 110, 111, 136, 149, 150, 162, 165, 167, 176, 181, 191, 192, 193, 194, 201, 208, 212, 213, 215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 246, 247, 265, 267, 281, 322, 402, 403, 408, 495
Melilli, 69, 72, 73, 78, 93, 183, 206, 243, 267, 288
Messina, 70, 93, 148, 217
Sicilians, 73, 81, 93, 110, 167, 192, 193, 205, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 228, 243, 244, 271, 274, 276, 277, 401
Siracusa, 69, 71, 79, 123
Syracuse, 110, See Siracusa
Skinner, B. F. (Burrhus Frederic), 168, 406, 423
Socialism, 87, 105, 106, 107
Socrates, 9, 44, 167, 175, 313, 482
Sowell, Thomas, 419, 432
Spock, Benjamin, 299, 330, 355, 391, 395, 397
Steele, Bill, 256
Steele, Bob, 248
Steele, Claude, 33, 37, 385, 386, 388, 397, 475, 487
Strike, 1907 Bell telephone, 255
Strike, 1912 Lawrence, 48, 53, 94
Stuckey, Elspeth, 415, 432
Swift, E. M., 284, 297, 480, 487
Swift, Jonathan, 409

T
Taylor, Denny, 424, 472, 487
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 55, 60, 92, 218, 392, 394, 397, 416, 422, 425, 431, 432
Taylorism, 55, 219, 347, 395
Tennessee, 42, 171, 438, 443, 476
Nashville, 42, 338, 360, 371, 397, 438, 442, 443, 457
Theroux, Paul, 331, 339, 342, 355, 374, 397
Thirty Years War, 174, 411, 412
Thorndike, Edward Lee, 25, 35, 38, 49, 66, 101, 119, 120, 121, 168, 180, 181, 287, 297, 365, 393, 397, 408, 422, 481
Toulmin, Stephen, 175, 181, 222, 297, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 432
Cosmopolis, 175, 181, 222, 297, 410, 432

U
Underachievement, 40, 55, 61, 62
University of Wisconsin, 47, 63, 313, 358, 462, 496
USM (University of Southern Maine), 5, 342, 495

V
Vanderbilt, 124, 127, 142, 170
Venceremos, 14, 20, 43, 449, 450
Vico, Giovanni Battista, 47, 49, 59, 63, 345, 355, 424
Voices, 452, 495

W
Weinstein, Lee, 42, 43, 50, 51, 434, 442, 446, 452
Wisconsin, 144, 367, 476
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 412
World War I, 68, 209, 413
World War II, 227, 413, 488
Writers at Work, 453

X
Xiuquan, Hong, 414

Y
Young, Alfred F., 92, 102
Young, Michael, 413, 414, 433
The Rise of the Meritocracy, 414, 433

Z
Zentall, Shannon and Morris, Bradley, 471, See also Praise
“Good job, you’re so smart”, 471
Zinn, Howard, 44, 63, 182, 183, 223