American Education

American Education
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 347
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ISBN-10 : 9781317531036
ISBN-13 : 1317531035
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis American Education by : Joel Spring

Joel Spring’s American Education introduces readers to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States. In his signature straightforward and concise approach to describing complex issues, Spring illuminates events and topics and that are often overlooked or whitewashed, giving students the opportunity to engage in critical thinking about education. In this edition he looks closely at the global context of education in the U.S. Featuring current information and challenging perspectives—with scholarship that is often cited as a primary source, students will come away from this clear, authoritative text informed on the latest topics, issues, and data and with a strong knowledge of the forces shaping of the American educational system. Changes in the 17th Edition include new and updated material and statistics on economic theories related to "skills" education and employability the conflict between a skills approach and cultural diversity political differences regarding education among the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian and Green parties social mobility and equality of opportunity as related to schooling global migration and student diversity in US schools charter schools and home schooling

The Teacher Wars

The Teacher Wars
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780345803627
ISBN-13 : 0345803620
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Teacher Wars by : Dana Goldstein

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. “[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

In Praise of American Educators

In Praise of American Educators
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1942496575
ISBN-13 : 9781942496571
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis In Praise of American Educators by : Richard DuFour

Leadership, Professional Learning Communities, PLC at Work

Inside American Education

Inside American Education
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 567
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ISBN-10 : 9781439107621
ISBN-13 : 1439107629
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Inside American Education by : Thomas Sowell

An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony.

Minding American Education

Minding American Education
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Publisher : Teachers College Press
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780807743522
ISBN-13 : 0807743526
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Minding American Education by : Martin Bickman

This book presents an antidote to the self-destructive war between educational conservatives and progressives, arguing that each has only part of the solution in what should be a productive dialectic between experience and concepts--Outlines the rich tradition of educational thought we have already created in this country, suggesting ways to apply it to our current reform efforts--Provides a new paradigm for re-conceptualizing our educational past, urging us to move in the direction of our best and most characteristic literary and philosophical thinkers--Critiques the usual academic discourse on education and suggests alternatives through his lively and direct style.

Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools

Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools
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Publisher : Multicultural Education
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9780807763452
ISBN-13 : 0807763454
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools by : Christine E. Sleeter

"Drawing on Christine Sleeter's review of research on the academic and social impact of ethnic studies commissioned by the National Education Association, this book will examine the value and forms of teaching and researching ethnic studies. The book employs a diverse conceptual framework, including critical pedagogy, anti-racism, Afrocentrism, Indigeneity, youth participatory action research, and critical multicultural education. The book provides cases of classroom teachers to 'illustrate what such conceptual framework look like when enacted in the classroom, as well as tensions that spring from them within school bureaucracies driven by neoliberalism.' Sleeter and Zavala will also outline ways to conduct research for 'investigating both learning and broader impacts of ethnic research used for liberatory ends'"--

Self-Taught

Self-Taught
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780807888971
ISBN-13 : 0807888974
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Self-Taught by : Heather Andrea Williams

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.

Religion and American Education

Religion and American Education
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 502
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ISBN-10 : 9781469617459
ISBN-13 : 1469617455
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Religion and American Education by : Warren A. Nord

Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices to public education and by those secular liberals for whom religion is irrelevant to everything in the curriculum. While he maintains that public schools and universities must not promote religion, he also argues that there are powerful philosophical, political, moral, and constitutional reasons for requiring students to study religion. Indeed, only if religion is included in the curriculum will students receive a truly liberal education, one that takes seriously a variety of ways of understanding the human experience. Intended for a broad audience, Nord's comprehensive study encompasses American history, constitutional law, educational theory and practice, theology, philosophy, and ethics. It also discusses a number of current, controversial issues, including multiculturalism, moral education, creationism, academic freedom, and the voucher and school choice movements.

The Education of American Teachers

The Education of American Teachers
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Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015006509528
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Education of American Teachers by : James Bryant Conant

Encyclopedia of American Education

Encyclopedia of American Education
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X004020755
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Education by : Harlow G. Unger

Contains approximately 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries providing information on people, events, and topics related to a variety of educational areas such as administration, reform, history, church-state conflicts, and civil rights, each with bibliographic references.