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Hot-Button Issues for Teachers: What Every Educator Needs to Know About Leadership, Testing, Textbooks, Vouchers, and More

Hot-Button Issues for Teachers: What Every Educator Needs to Know About Leadership, Testing, Textbooks, Vouchers, and More

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One of the tragedies of American education is that so many teachers do not understand or are unaware of educational issues and how they impact on their profession. There is a gap between teacher perceptions and reality and this book is a first step in closing that gap. Hot-Button Issues for Teachers is a timely, comprehensive book that addresses more than 100 educational issues that are facing our schools, children, and especially teachers. These issues include: _

Table of Contents:
Part 1 PART I: The Teaching Profession Today Chapter 2 The Status of the Teaching Profession: Where Are We Going? Chapter 3 Decision-Makers Influencing Educational Policy: Who Are They? Chapter 4 Competition in the Educational Scene Today: Is This A New Era? Part 5 PART II: The Teacher and the Marketplace Chapter 6 The Professional Preparation of Teachers: What Is the Remedy? Chapter 7 Job Hunting and Mobility: What Should You Know? Chapter 8 Merit Pay: Has Its Day Arrived? Chapter 9 Teacher Unions and Collective Bargaining: What Are Your Views? Chapter 10 Teaching Performance and Accountability: Problems or Opportunities? Chapter 11 Mobility in the Profession: Politics or Merit? Part 12 PART III: Effective Learning and Teaching Chapter 13 Effective Classroom Management: Can It Be Achieved? Chapter 14 Curriculum and Textbook Selection: What Needs to Be Changed? Chapter 15 National Standards: What Are the Dangers? Chapter 16 Tests and Other Evaluation Tools: Are They Fair? Chapter 17 The Grading System: How Do You Handle It? Chapter 18 Teaching Controversial Issues: Should They Be Included in the Curriculum? Chapter 19 Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Groupings: Which Do You Prefer? Chapter 20 Homework: Too Little or Too Much? Chapter 21 Parent-Teacher-Principal Relationships: Can They Be Effective? Part 22 PART IV: Evolving Issues Chapter 23 The Extended School Year: Are We Ready for It? Chapter 24 Separate Schools for the Sexes and School Uniforms: Are Old Ideas Returning? Chapter 25 Teacher Burnout: Myth or Reality? Chapter 26 School Safety and Violence: Is There a Solution? Chapter 27 The Middle School: Is it Effective? Chapter 28 Political and Social Activism in the School: What Are the Pros and Cons? Chapter 29 Liberal Arts and Teacher Preparation: Friends or Mortal Enemies? Chapter 30 Science and Mathematics: Where Are They? Chapter 31 Tips for Teachers: How Can You Be an Effective Classroom Teacher?


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781578866274
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: What Every Educator Needs to Know About Leadership, Testing, Textbooks, Vouchers, and More
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1578866278
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jun 2007
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 220
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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