American Education - Couverture souple

Spring, Joel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0073128589 ISBN 13 : 9780073128580

Editeur : McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2005

Synopsis

Clear, concise, and authoritative, "American Education" brings up-to-date information and challenging perspectives to teacher educators' classrooms. Revised every two years, the text provides an 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 provides thorough coverage of "No Child Left Behind," a review of drug testing and vouchers, a new discussion of academic testing, and coverage of the Commission on Excellence in Special Education.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Joel Spring received his Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently a Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His great-great-grandfather was the first Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and his grandfather, Joel S. Spring, was a local district chief at the time Indian Territory became Oklahoma. He currently teaches at Queens College of the City University of New York. His major research interests are history of education, multicultural education, Native American culture, the politics of education, global education, and human rights education. He is the author of over twenty books and the most recent are How Educational Ideologies are Shaping Global Society; Education and the Rise of the Global Economy; The Universal Right to Education: Justification, Definition, and Guidelines; Globalization and Educational Rights; and Educating the Consumer Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0073128589
• ISBN 13: 9780073128580
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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