Brief Contents : PREFACE xi // Part One: Teachers // Chapter 1. The Teachers World 5 . // Chapter 2. Teachers and Their Struggle for Professionalism 34 Chapter 3. Effective Teaching 66 ¦ Chapter 4. Student Diversity 98 // Part Two: Schools // Chapter 5. What Are Schools For? 129 // Chapter 6. What Students Are Taught in Schools 153 // Chapter 7. Controversy over Who Shapes the Curriculum 179 // Chapter 8. The Social Side of School 208 // Chapter 9. Good Schools 241 // Part Three: Foundations // Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. // The History of American Education 275 School Governance 309 School Law 338 Financing America’s Schools 366 Philosophy of Education 392 // Part Four: Issues and Trends // Chapter 15. The Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity 431 Chapter 16. Contemporaiy Social Forces and Children at Risk 475 Chapter 17. Today’s Reforms, Tomorrow’s Schools 511 // Resource Handbook // GLOSSARY G-0 // INDEX 1-1