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| Each chapter concludes with "Activities," "Recommended Readings," and "Notes." | |
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| Preface | |
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| Teaching as an Occupation | |
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| Deciding to Teach and Finding a Job | |
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| Motives for Teaching | |
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| Perceived Advantages of Teaching | |
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| Teachers Who Love, Teachers Who Care | |
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| Leaving No Child Behind? Teachers and Culturally Diverse Students | |
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| Teaching as Academic Work | |
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| Satisfaction with Teaching | |
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| Burnouts, Dropouts, and the Promise of School Reform | |
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| The Critical Years Ahead | |
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| The Teacher Job Market | |
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| Baby Boom, Generation X, Generation Y, and Beyond: The Demand for Teachers | |
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| A Complex Guessing Game: The Supply of Teachers | |
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| The Politics of Teacher Supply and Demand | |
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| Bending Standards, Changing Standards, and No Child Left Behind | |
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| Connecting with a Teaching Position | |
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| Earning a Living and Living with Evaluation | |
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| Teacher Salaries, State by State | |
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| Qualified Good News | |
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| Salaries for New Teachers | |
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| Other Factors to Consider | |
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| Americarsquo;s Teachers in 2005: A Demographic Profile | |
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| Comparing Salaries in Teaching and Other Occupations | |
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| What Do Other People Earn? | |
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| How Much Will It Cost You To Be a Teacher? | |
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| What Lies Ahead? | |
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| Teacher Salary Schedules | |
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| A Salary Schedule with "Perverse Incentives" | |
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| A Typical Salary Schedule | |
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| An Exceptionally Good Salary Schedule | |
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| Suspend Disbelief for a Moment | |
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| Merit Pay: The Birth of "Sound and Cheap" | |
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| Pyramid Building | |
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| Bias and Favoritism | |
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| Teacher Testing | |
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| Tried and Rejected | |
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| The Accountability Movement: Merit Pay Comes Back to Life | |
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| The Factory Model of Schooling | |
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| Accountability-Based Merit Pay on Trial | |
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| Value Added Assessment | |
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| School Performance Incentives | |
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| No Child Left Behind: A Perfect Match for Merit Pay | |
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| Behavioral Evaluation of Teachers | |
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| How Behavioral Evaluation Works | |
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| Teachers Likes and Dislikes | |
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| Effects on the Classroom | |
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| Portfolios: Multifaceted Teacher Evaluation | |
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| "Union of Insufficiencies" | |
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| Doing the Job Right | |
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| The Latest Versions of Merit Pay | |
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| Changing Times | |
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| Wright Brothers or Alchemists? | |
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| Teacher Career Ladders | |
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| Recent Experiments: Still Looking for a Better Way to Pay | |
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| Learning to Teach and Proving Your Competence | |
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| Teacher Education in the Era of No Child Left Behind | |
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| Multiple Routes into Teaching | |
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| The Traditional Route: Undergraduate Teaching Education | |
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| Liberal Education | |
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| The Teaching Field | |
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| Professional Education | |
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| Masterrsquo;s-Level Routes into Teaching | |
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| The Holmes Partnership and Professional Development Schools | |
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| Alternative Masterrsquo;s Degree Programs | |
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| Alternate Routes into Teaching: Quick and Dirty, or Merely Quick? | |
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| The New Jersey Shortcut | |
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| The Texas Squeeze Play | |
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| A Tale of Two Occupations | |
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| Raising the Bar in Teacher Education | |
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| Nostalgia for a Golden Age of Teaching | |
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| Reforming Teacher Education from the Inside: NCATE, INTASC, and NBPTS | |
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| Standards and Assessments: Breaking with the Past | |
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| Literacy Skills | |
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| The Teaching Field | |
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| Professional Education | |
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| Moving Internal Reform into Place | |
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| INTASC Standards | |
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| Portfolio Assessment | |
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