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Clear, concise, and authoritative, American Education brings issues and challenging perspectives to teacher educators' classrooms. Revised every two years, the text provides an 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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This text, which is revised every two years to keep up with changes in school policies, provides an introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and the profession of teaching in the US. Spring (Queens College, City U. of New York) adds a guide to chapter references to sections that discuss the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in this edition, as well as statistical tables and new sections on topics such as public interest, core curriculum, education and income, cultural capital, school segregation and the gender divide, foreign-born students, biculturalism, and the National Public School Choice Plan, and the National Private School Choice Plan. Chapters cover such topics as the goals of public schooling, equal opportunity, diversity, textbooks and curriculum, the courts, and charter schools. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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