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The Education Profession | |
A Teaching Career | |
Today's Teachers | |
The Importance of Teachers to Society | |
The Public View of Teachers and Schools | |
Who Teaches?Teachers Needed | |
Teaching as a Profession | |
Characteristics of a Profession | |
Professional ResponsibilitiesReflecting on One's Practice | |
Challenges Affecting Teachers | |
Salaries | |
Working Conditions | |
Beginning and Continuing a Teaching Career | |
Becoming Licensed | |
Searching for a Teaching Position | |
Remaining a Teacher | |
Sociological Founcations of Education | |
Diversity in Society | |
Culture and Society | |
Diversity and Education | |
Socioeconomic Status | |
Ethnicity and Race | |
Language | |
Gender | |
Exceptionalities | |
Religion | |
Geography | |
Social Challenges in Schools | |
Power in Society | |
Ethnocentrism | |
Prejudice and Discrimination | |
Today's Families | |
Parenting | |
Latchkey Kids | |
Homelessness | |
Abuse | |
Today's Youth | |
Who Is This Generation?Challenges of Youth Culture | |
Democracy and Education | |
Roles of Schools | |
Purposes of Schools | |
Whose Schools?Democratic Schools | |
Education That Is Multicultural | |
Undergirding Tenets | |
Diversity | |
Social Justice | |
Equality | |
Culture of the School | |
Traditions | |
Hidden Curriculum | |
Culturally Relevant Teaching | |
Building on Cultural Context | |
Centering the Cultures of Students | |
Validating Student Voices | |
Challenges in Multicultural Classrooms | |
Technology and Equity | |
Gender-Sensitive Education | |
Education for Language Diversity | |
Teachers as Social Activists | |
Thinking Critically | |
Modeling Equity in the Classroom | |
Teaching for Social Justice | |
Governance And Support Of American Education | |
Organizing and Paying for American Education | |
The Structure of the American Education System | |
Organization of Schools | |
Organization of the School District | |
Organization of Education at the State Level | |
The Federal Government's Role in Education | |
School Choice: Increasing Options along with Uncertain Outcomes | |
Politics in Education | |
Issues Related to Organization and Structure | |
Financing Education: Sources of Funds and the Move from Equity to Adequacy | |
A System of Taxation and Support for Schools | |
Education Spending | |
Accountability | |
Perennial School Finance Issues | |
Legal Foundations of Education | |
Legal Aspects of Education | |
Legal Provisions for Education: The U.S. Constitution | |
Church and State | |
Segregation and Desegregation | |
Equal Opportunity | |
Teachers' Rights and Responsibilities | |
Conditions of Employment | |
Academic Freedom | |
Teacher Responsibilities and Liabilities | |
Students' Rights and Responsibilities | |
Students' Rights as Citizens | |
Students' Rights and Responsibilities in School | |
Historical Foundations of Education | |
The Evolution of American Education | |
Education in Other Cultures | |
The Beginnings of Education (to 476 C.E.) | |
Education in the Middle Ages (476-1300) | |
Education in Transition (1300-1700) | |
The Important Role of Education in Our Developing Nation | |
Colonial Education | |
The Struggle for Universal Elementary Education | |
The Need for Secondary Schools | |
Federal Involvement in Education | |
The Evolution of Teaching Materials | |
Meager Education for Diverse Populations | |
Private Education in America | |
Learning from History | |
The Continuing Historical Effort to Improve Education | |
More Students and Bigger Schools | |
The Rapid Growth of the Educational Enterprise | |
School District Consolidation | |
The Development of the Teaching Profession | |
The Increasing Complexity of the Educational Enterprise | |
Changing Aims of Education | |
Preparation of Teachers | |
Education of Women | |
Recent Trends in Education | |
New Emphases in Education | |
Educational Critics | |
School Reform | |
School Public Opinion over the Past Half-Century | |
Major Educational Events of the Past Century | |
The Value of History | |
Philosophical Foundations of Education | |
Philosophy: The Passion to Understand | |
Structure and Methodology of Philosophy | |
The Branches of Philosophy | |
Thinking as a Philosopher | |
Schools of Philosophy and Their Influence on Education | |
Idealism | |
Realism | |
Pragmatism | |
Existentialism | |
Eastern Ways of Knowing | |
Native American Ways of Knowing | |
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