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Foundations of Education
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CONTENTS
Part I: TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
Chapter 1: Becoming a Teacher
Chapter 2: Different Ways of Learning
Chapter 3: Culturally Responsive Teaching
RAP Introduction
RAP
Part II: SCHOOLS AND CURRICULUM
Chapter 4: Schools: Choices and Challenges
Chapter 5: Student Life in School and at Home
Chapter 6: Curriculum, Standards, and Testing
RAP
Part III: FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 7: The History of American Education
Chapter 8: Philosophy of Education
Chapter 9: Financing and Governing America’s Schools
Chapter 10: School Law and Ethics
RAP
Part IV: YOUR CLASSROOM
Chapter 11: Teacher Effectiveness
Chapter 12: Your First Classroom
Chapter 13: Q and A Guide to Entering the Teaching Profession
The Courage to Teach: A Final Word
RAP
Text Appendixes
1: State Offices for Teacher Certification and Licensure
2: Praxis Teacher Competency Exams and Sample Test Questions
Online Appendixes
A: Curricular Tension Points and Trends
B: Classroom Observation Guidelines
C: Software by Subject Area
D: A Summary of Selected Reports on Education Reform
E: State Offices for Teacher Certification and Licensure
Glossary
Notes
Credits
Index
NEW
AMERICAN EDUCATION
13th Edition
Joel Spring, Queens College
2008 / 400 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-07-352594-5 / MHID: 0-07-352594-4
Available: April 2007
Website: http://www.mhhe.com/spring13
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. This edition
introduces a new chapter reference guide to the No Child
Left Behind Act, provides a fresh look at multiculturalism and
multilingualism, and presents a new discussion of the link
between schooling and the growing gap between rich and
poor.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
• Integrated coverage of the No Child Left Behind Act examines
this act’s impact on many facets of education. Updated and
expanded coverage considers the continuing controversies
surrounding the act, with additional material on how standardized
testing affects students with disabilities and English-Language
Learners. The new reference guide provides a chapter-by-chapter
indicator of where No Child Left Behind-related material appears
in the text.
• Detailed exploration of the opportunity gap considers the links
between education and income and cultural capital and career
achievement, and presents data on the connection between
schooling and the growing gap between rich and poor.
• Updated and expanded sections dealing with multicultural
education, multilingual education, and diversity include discussions
of school segregation today, boys in the gender divide, and
foreign-born populations in the United States. New census tables
cover education, race, income distribution, students with disabilities,
school spending, poverty, and English-Language learners.
CONTENTS
A Guide with Chapter References to Discussions of No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001
Preface
Part One: SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
Chapter One: The Goals of Public Schooling
Chapter Two: Education and Equality of Opportunity
Chapter Three: Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race,
Gender, and Special Needs
Chapter Four: Student Diversity
Chapter Five: Multicultural and Multilingual Education
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