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"Clear, concise, and authoritative compact and affordable, too with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, American Education brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators' classrooms. Revised every two years, American Education provides a fresh, concise, and up-to-date introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States"--
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In this text for pre-service teachers, Spring (Queens College, City University of New York) provides an understanding of the political, social, and economic forces shaping the direction of American education and their impact on classroom teachers' training, pedagogy, and content of instruction. Material on school and society looks at the history and goals of public schooling, equality of educational opportunity, student diversity, and multicultural and multilingual education. Later chapters examine power and control in American education, discussing local control and school choice, state and national control, high stakes testing, the teaching profession, textbooks and curriculum, and the relationship between the courts and the schools. This fourteenth edition of the text contains new material on topics such as legal definitions of race, global immigration, charter schools, cyber bullying, and for-profit global education corporations. Statistical tables have been updated, and there are new chapter openings as reader guides. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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