Teachers, Schools, and Society - Hardcover

Sadker, David M.; Zittleman, Karen; Sadker, Myra P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0073378755 ISBN 13: 9780073378756

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Synopsis

The most reader friendly text in its field, the ninth edition presents a comprehensive overview of education in America. It provides in-depth commentary on educational history, philosophy, and governance, while giving special attention to current critical topics such as the changing federal role in educational finance.Newly revised for this edition, Chapter 4 (Life in School and at Home) now includes obesity, eating disorders, and a revised section on poverty. A major revision of Chapter 5, now titled Reforming America's Schools, includes updates from the stimulus plan based on new reports on federal programs and new funding formulas. Chapter 6 on Curriculum, Standards and Testing has a new section on emerging trends in the curriculum.

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Readability. The text's readability makes it accessible and engaging for the student. The authors use different approaches throughout to convey information to make the text as interesting as possible. They use humor and an accessible writing style to involve and challenge the student in active reading.
The Interactive Text. Interactive Activities and the chapter-opening What Do You Think? opinion poll activity link students to the Online Learning Center. Examples of Interactive Activities include practicing with the pedagogical cycle, identifying philosophical approaches, labeling timelines, and viewing different types of educational technology. Each chapter ends with a link to the Online Learning Center that lists the resources available. The Online Learning Center is designed to be an interactive extension of the text.
Annotated Instructor's Edition. The new AIE provides instructional ideas and links key supplements to the content through approximately 40 annotations per chapter. Features include Teaching Tips, Critical Thinking Questions, Class Activities and Grabbers, Global Views, and Multiple Intelligences Connections in addition to traditional features and referencing of supplemental material.
Interactive Pedagogy. As a whole, the pedagogical system as been made interactive through reflection questions. New pedagogical features include You Be the Judge (a revised and expanded version of the popular Balance Sheets), Profile in Education (an expanded version of Profile in Teaching), Photo-synthesis (an expanded version of Photos in Contrast), and Reel to Real Teaching (a listing of education-related movies).
Chapter Reorganization. A Question-and-Answer Guide to Entering the Teaching Profession has been moved to Chapter 15. Student Diversity (Ch. 2) now precedes Teacher Effectiveness. Philosophy of Education (Ch. 9) now follows The History of American Education.
New Content. Philosophy of Education has been extensively revised. In additional to a solid presentation of educational philosophies, this chapter now includes more diverse coverage of philosophy with specific new content added on key female figures. New topics added throughout the text include Social Reconstructionism, cultural deficit and cultural difference theories, and a discussion of financial court battles surrounding adequate education.
Online Learning Center. The Online Learning Center has been expanded as a student resource to include both a comprehensive Student Study Guide (with practice quizzes, objectives, main points, key terms, and practice activities with key terms) and content extending the text (Interactive Activities, What Do You Think? opinion poll, In the News updates, Web Links, additional Class Acts, electronic Inter-missions forms, and additional coverage not found in the text). Due to the great wealth of information of the site, the Online Learning Center has been password protected. Students receive a free password card with the purchase of a new text. Password cards can be purchased separately.
Video Program. The Teachers, Schools, and Society video program has been expanded to provide at least one video clip per chapter (in many cases, there are several). Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Video Companion has been revised to include segments on meeting special needs, cooperative learning, alternate assessments, immigrant students, curriculum design, standards, philosophy in the classroom, a school board meeting, academic controversy, identifying classroom bias, technology in instruction, and multiple intelligences. In addition, the Only a Teacher video series (as seen on PBS) is available with the text. This three-video series chronicles the history of the American teacher and includes both extensive historical coverage and contemporary classroom scenes. Segments from all of the videos are keyed to each chapter in the Annotated Instructor's Edition.
Comprehensive Coverage. Teachers, Schools, and Society provides a comprehensive introduction to education and teaching. Part I: Teachers and Students discusses what teaching is like today - opportunities, students and teachers; Part II: Schools and Curriculum looks at schools and curriculum; Part III: Foundations presents the foundations of education; and Part IV: Tomorrow discusses equal opportunity, technology, and what the student can expect in her first classroom.
Technology Coverage. Technology in Education (Ch. 13) has been revised to provide the most current coverage of technology in education - the latest computer technologies and how they are being used in schools, and how technology is affecting education. Technology-related coverage is integrated throughout the text as appropriate.
Purposeful Pedagogy. Proven features include Class Acts (part-opening vignettes), In the News (briefs on current issues in education), and Inter-missions (part-ending portfolio activities keyed to INTASC standards). Chapter pedagogy includes Focus Questions, Chapter Preview, Summary, Key Terms, Discussion Questions and Activities, and For Further Reading.
Supplements. The text is accompanied by a wealth of resources including a new Annotated Instructor's Edition; an Instructor's Manual/Test Bank (with extensive, creative activities; and added test questions as well as a new alternative assessment activity for each chapter); a computerized Test Bank, an Instructor's Resource CD-Rom (with the Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoints); Full-Color text-specific Overhead Transparencies; The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Education Overhead Transparencies and PowerPoint slides; the video program; the Online Learning Center (that includes instructor resources in additional to student resources); and a Making the Grade CD-Rom (with practice quizzes for students).
A Diversity-Focused Approach. The text includes an integrated, multicultural/diversity-oriented approach in all chapters, including the most comprehensive coverage of the roles and experiences of girls and women.
Scholarship. The text has been updated to include the most current scholarship.
Portfolio Activities. The Inter-missions sections at the end of each part provide portfolio activities keyed to the INTASC standards. Available for packaging are Rieman, Teaching Portfolios and FolioLive.

About the Author:

David Sadker has taught in middle and senior high schools, as well as at the college level, and has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and American University (Washington, DC) for more than three decades. He and his late wife Myra Sadker, gained a national reputation for research and publications concerning the impact of gender in schools. (To learn more about Myras life and work, visit www.sadker.org). Dr. Sadker has degrees from CCNY, Harvard University, and the University of Massachusetts. He has written several books and numerous articles in both professional and popular journals. He co-authored Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, (Touchstone Press in 1995), and his research has been reported in hundreds of newspapers and magazines including USA Today, USA Weekend, Parade Magazine, Business Week, The Washington Post, The London Times, The New York Times, Time, and Newsweek. He has appeared on local and national television and radio shows such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Phil Donahues The Human Animal, National Public Radios All Things Considered and Talk of the Nation, and twice on Dateline: NBC with Jane Pauley. The Sadkers received the American Educational Research Associations award for the best review of research published in the United States (1991), their professional service award in 1995, and their Willystine Goodsell award in 2004. The Sadkers were recognized with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from The American Association of University Women in 1995, and the Gender Architect Award from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in 2001. David Sadker has received two honorary doctorates.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073378755
• ISBN 13: 9780073378756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608