Introducing the World of Education A Case Study Reader

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Teaching and Learning .........1 Student Teaching .........3 Vignette of a Fifth - Grade Teacher .........23 A Commitment to Children ............33 2. The Diversity of Educational LIfe ...........57 Culturally Diverse families and Schools ..........59 Educating Students with Disabilities ..........69 School Inequality : Federal Courts........83 School inequality : State Courts..........101 3. Schools ...........119 The Good High School..............121 Low-and High- Performing Schools Serving native American Students .........149 Schools on Probation .......165 Public School Choice .........177 4. Districts and States ................205 The Superintendency .........207 Reforming Urban Districts ................233 State Departments of Education .............261 State Education Standards ............273 5. Community and School Board Action .............289 An Urban Youth Program ................291 School-Community collaboration in Starting a New School...........305 Educational Programs and the Local Community power structure ..............327 School board Leadership.............349 A post-9/11 Perspective on U S education ...............369 Doing Case Studies in Education ...................379