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| The Profession | |
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| Why Become a Teacher? | |
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| Why People Decide to Teach | |
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| Rewards and Difficulties in Teaching | |
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| The Teaching Profession | |
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| Becoming a Teacher in an Era of Reform | |
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| The Teaching Profession | |
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| Teaching: A Time Perspective | |
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| Teaching: Dealing With Complexities | |
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| The Multiple Roles of Teaching | |
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| Who Will You Work With? | |
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| Students | |
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| Learner Diversity: Differences in Today's Students | |
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| Cultural Diversity | |
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| Gender | |
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| Ability Differences | |
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| Learning Styles | |
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| Students with Exceptionalities | |
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| Changes in American Society: Influences on Today's Schools | |
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| A Changing Society | |
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| Students Placed At-Risk | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Education in the United States: Its Historical Roots | |
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| The Colonial Period (1607-1775) | |
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| The Early National Period (1775-1820) | |
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| The Common School Movement (1820-1865) | |
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| The Evolution of the American High School | |
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| The Progressive Era | |
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| Searching for Equality: The Education of Cultural Minorities | |
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| The Modern Era: Schools Instruments for National Purpose and Social Change | |
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| Educational Philosophy: The Intellectual Foundations of American Education | |
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| Philosophy and the Philosophy of Education | |
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| Traditional Schools of Philosophy | |
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| Exploring Diversity: Philosophy and Cultural Minorities | |
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| Philosophies of Education | |
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| Developing as a Professional: Forming a Personal Philosophy of Education | |
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| The Organization of American Schools | |
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| What Is a School? | |
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| The Organization of Schools | |
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| Early-Childhood Programs | |
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| Elementary Schools | |
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| High Schools, Junior High Schools, and Middle Schools | |
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| What Is an Effective School? | |
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| Governance and Finance: Regulating and Funding Schools | |
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| Governance: How Are Schools Regulated and Run? | |
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| School Finance: How Are Schools Funded? | |
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| Emerging Issues in School Governance and Finance | |
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| School Law: Ethical and Legal Influence on Teaching | |
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| Law, Ethics, and Teacher Professional Decision Making | |
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| The U.S. Legal System | |
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| Teachers' Rights and Responsibilities | |
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| Religion and the Law | |
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| Students' Rights and Responsibilities | |
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| Teaching | |
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| The School Curriculum | |
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| What Is Curriculum? | |
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| Forces That Influence the Curriculum | |
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| Controversies in the Curriculum | |
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| Instruction in American Classrooms | |
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| Looking in Classrooms to Define Effective Teaching | |
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| Using Our Understanding of Learning to Define Effective Teaching | |
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| Technology in American Schools | |
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| What Is Technology? | |
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| Using Technology in the Classroom | |
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| Issues in the Use of Educational Technology | |
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| Careers | |
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| Joining the Profession | |
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| Characteristics of Beginning Teachers | |
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| Knowledge and Learning to Teach | |
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| Joining the Profession | |
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| Surviving Your First Year of Teaching | |
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| Directory of State Teacher-Certification Offices | |
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| References | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |