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| Note: Each chapter concludes with "A Final Word." | |
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| Schools and Students | |
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| What Is a School and What Is It For? | |
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| Education and Schooling Four Basic Purposes of School Models of Schools | |
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| Schools as Cultures | |
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| Schools as Transmitters or Re-creators of Culture | |
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| What Do Studies Reveal About the Nature of Schools? | |
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| What Is a Good School? | |
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| The Unfinished Work of Schools | |
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| Who Are Today's Students in a Diverse Society? | |
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| Sources of Student Diversity Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity Diverse Needs Diverse Abilities | |
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| The School's Response to Diversity | |
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| The Teacher's Response to Diversity | |
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| What Social Problems and Tension Points Affect Today's Students? | |
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| Social Problems Affecting Students Tension Points in American Education | |
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| What Is Taught? | |
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| What Is Curriculum? | |
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| What Is the Present Curriculum? | |
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| Assessing Student Academic Performance Additional Influences on Curriculum Is the Existing Curriculum Relevant to Today's Society? | |
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| Teachers | |
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| What Makes a Teacher Effective? | |
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| Framework for Professional Practice | |
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| The Teacher as a Reflective Decision Maker Aspects of Reflective Decision Making | |
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| What Attitudes Does the Effective Teacher Possess? | |
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| What Subject-Matter Knowledge Does the Effective Teacher Need? | |
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| What Theoretical Knowledge Does the Effective Teacher Need? | |
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| Personal Practical Knowledge What Teaching Skills Are Required of an Effective Teacher? | |
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| What Should Teachers Know About Technology and Its Impact on Schools? | |
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| A Brief Look at Education's Technological Past | |
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| How Are Schools Being Pressured to Change? | |
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| How Are Technologies Affecting Student Learning? | |
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| How Are Technologies Affecting Teaching? | |
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| How Are Computer Technologies Organized for Student Use? | |
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| What Are Key Issues in Educational Technology? | |
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| What Are the Ethical and Legal Issues Facing Teachers? | |
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| The Ethics of Teaching | |
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| The Teacher and the Law Lifestyle and the Teacher Law, Religion, and the School Students and the Law | |
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| Foundations and the Future | |
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| What Are the Philosophical Foundations of American Education? | |
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| What Is Philosophy? | |
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| The Terrain of Philosophy Schools of Educational Philosophy | |
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| The Influence of Psychological Theories Your Philosophy of Education | |
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| What Is the History of American Education? | |
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| Themes in American Education Elementary Education | |
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| Secondary Education Private Education Education of Minorities | |
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| How Are Schools Governed, Influenced, and Financed? | |
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| Who Legally Governs Public Education? | |
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| Who Influences American Public Education? | |
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| How Are Schools Financed? | |
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| How Should Education Be Reformed? | |
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| What Ought to Be the Elements of Educational Reform? | |
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| Current Reform Initiatives | |
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| The Current State of School Reform | |
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| The Teaching Profession | |
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| What Are Your Job Options in Education? | |
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| Will There Be Job Openings in Education? | |
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| How Do You Obtain a Teaching Position? | |
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| How Do You Become Licensed? | |
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| If You Don't Teach, What Then? | |
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| What Can the New Teacher Expect? | |
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| The School Milieu: The Shock of the Familiar | |
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| Administrators: Mixed Bag and Many Hats Peers: A Mixed Blessing | |
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| Instruction: So Much to Learn Students: Friends of Fiends? | |
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| Parents: Natural Allies with Different Agendas Surviving the First Year of Teaching | |
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| What Does It Mean to Be a Professional? | |
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| The Status of Teaching: A Profession or Not? | |
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| Professional Associations Your Own Professional Development | |
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| Why Teach? | |
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| Motivations for Teaching | |
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| The Rewards of Teaching Sources of Useful Experience Case Studies in the Motivation to Teach | |