Teachers, Schools, and Society

by David Miller Sadker and Myra Pollack Sadker

The most reader friendly text in its field, the seventh edition presents a comprehensive overview of education in America. It provides in-depth commentary on educational history, philosophy, and governance, while giving special attention to current critical topics such as student diversity, standards and testing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072877774
• ISBN13: 9780072877779
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Becoming a Teacher

This book is excellent to guide people that want to become teachers. The videos are really good.

Just what I needed

Thank you for making this purchase so easy! It was exactly the book needed and you offered some savings when compared to the local bookstore. It made sense to buy the books needed for this semester from you.

Teachers, Schools and Society

This book was used for my freshman Foundations of Education course. I found the book a joy to read, and it provided a balanced look at the teaching profession. This one book that will definantly not be sold back. The supplemental materials on the CD-ROM seemed to be high quality, but I disliked having to read them on my computer and ended up ignoring the CD.

New First Edition

The other reviews for this are for the old edition and not the Brief Introduction to Education, so please be aware that the date of the reviews is before this text was published. In reading the other reviews, it was obvious that the reviewers missed the point of the text--it is to be used in an introductory course, not in a course where preservice or practicing teachers would be designing lessons and units. This text provides a great overview of the educational issues and problems that someone contemplating becoming a teacher needs to know about before investing time, energy, and money into obtaining certification. The brief version is much better, more up-to-date and student friendly than the original text by Sadker and Sadker. For anyone contemplating being a teacher, the issues presented in this text may help you decide if you really have what it takes to be a classroom teacher. It gives an overview of the political, economic, and social issues facing educators as well as the historic perspective of American Education. Well worth the cost.