American Education
- ISBN-10
- 0073525944
- ISBN-13
- 9780073525945
- Series
- American Education
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
- Author
- Joel H. Spring
Description
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.
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