Surveying which programs are effective and which are not, this book also examines the impact of for-profit teacher training in the classroom.

Between Church and State includes new scholarship on the role of Roger Williams and William Penn in developing early American conceptions of religious liberty.

Whether it was the impoverished people of New Mexico who declared, Our purpose is to protect the rights and interests of the people in general, the runaway slave Joseph Taper writing all are born free and equal, or Jeffersons self evident ...

In this compelling account, James W. Fraser, an eminent historian of education, takes readers through two centuries of teacher preparation to uncover its development from colonial times to current standards-based models.

This is a book for teachers, parents, and other concerned citizens who care about public education, who want schools to be democratic in the best sense, and who seek argumentative ammunition for defending schools and for placing school ...

" Teach includes primary source readings and integrates the intellectual foundations of education throughout each chapter.

Students come alive when dealing with primary sources. This is a documentary history of education in the United States and can save the instructor from doing a good deal of photocopying.

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