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• ISBN: 9781612052274
• Physical Description: xx, 452 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Edition: 4th ed., rev. and updated.
• Publisher: Boulder, CO : Paradigm Pubishers, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:

CatMonthString:jan.13

Formatted Contents Note:

List of figures, concept tables, and focal points -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Decomracy, diversity, and inequality - 1. The U.S. schooling dilemma: diversity, inequality, and democratic values - 2. History and culture: how expanding - 3. Policies and philosophy: the struggle over the school curriculum - 4. Policy and law: rules that schools live by -- Part II. The practice of teaching by the world - 5. The subject matters: constructing knowledge across the content areas - 6. Instruction: teaching and learning across the content areas - 7. Assessment: measuring what matters - 8. Classrooms as communities: developing and deomocratic relationships - 9. The school culture: where good teaching makes sense - 10. School structure - 11. The community: engaging with families and neighborhoods - 12. Teaching to change the world: A profession and a hopeful struggle -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photo credits Index.

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Educational change > United States.
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