Full Description
American Schools, American Teachershistory and social commentary of education in the United States, as well as in-depth discussions about current issues. This text presents foundational aspects of education utilizing a thought provoking issues approach. It is a text about ideas that need to be considered, thought about, and discussed. The book is organized in three sections: history and background issues, issues in the classroom, and issues affecting education.
Contents
1. There Is Nothing (Really) New Under the SunEducational/Political Issues. 2. Shaping the United States: An Early History of Our Schooling. 3. Common Schools to Conservative Reactions: The Nineteenth Century to 1983. 4. In Search of an Identity: Teachers. 5. Sugar/Spice/Snakes/Snails and Testosterone: On the Matter of Girls and Boys. 6. Race. 7. Training Americans: Urban, Multicultural and Multilingual Education. 8. Dealing with Differences in the Land of Equality: Special Education. 9. Bureaucrats and Politicians: Who Controls the Classroom. 10. The Tyranny of Number Two Pencils: Testing. 11. The Sky Is Falling: Who Are These Kids? 12. Restructuring Schooling: Looking for Answers in All the Wrong Places.