Teachers, Schools, and Society

by Sadker, Myra Pollack; Sadker, David Miller

• ISBN13: 9780072287950
• ISBN10: 0072287950
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780072423884
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
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Summary

Ever since its first edition, education professors have relied on the Sadkers for their comprehensive coverage of all aspects of American education. From the underlying principles of teaching and schooling to the operation of schools, the fifth edition retains that same great coverage. But it also builds on this foundation. Now fully updated, with more exciting new material than ever, Teachers, Schools, and Society, Fifth Edition offers a structure unsurpassed in breadth.Written in an informal and highly engaging style that appeals to students, Teachers, Schools, and Society is punctuated throughout with interesting features and sidebars. Over 50 contemporary issues are discussed and there is a special guide that walks you through them. At en end of the text is a forty-page handbook on observing schools and classrooms that is filled with helpful tips and activities.The fifth edition offers new material on induction, technology, ethics, student diversity, multiple and emotional intelligence, national standards and testing, and the emergence of EMOs (Educational Maintenance Organizations).Combine all this with an excellent author team, detailed appendices, and a complete supplements package, and you have an extraordinary resource for introductory coverage of American education.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
part one Teachers and Students	4	(130)
1 Becoming a Teacher	4	(23)
2 A Question-and-Answer Guide to Entering the Teaching Profession	27	(22)
3 Teacher Effectiveness	49	(33)
4 Student Diversity	82	(52)
part two Schools and Curriculum	134	(146)
5 Schools and Beyond	134	(34)
6 Life in Schools	168	(33)
7 What Students Are Taught in Schools	201	(33)
8 Controversy over Who Controls the Curriculum	234	(46)
part three Foundations	280	(142)
9 The History of American Education	280	(36)
10 Financing and Governing America's Schools	316	(36)
11 School Law and Ethics	352	(34)
12 Philosophy of Education	386	(36)
part four Tomorrow	422	(99)
13 The Struggle for Educational Opportunity	422	(38)
14 Technology in Education	460	(31)
15 Your First Classroom	491	(30)
A Final Word	521	(12)
Appendices	533	(27)
1 Addresses for State Offices of Certification	533	(3)
2 Information About the National Teacher Exam (Praxis Series)	536	(2)
3 A Summary of Selected Reports on Education Reform	538	(6)
4 Observation Manual	544	(16)
Glossary	560	(11)
Notes	571	(22)
Photo Credits	593	(1)
Index	594