educational sociology

Class and Education looks closely at the relationships between education and class, covering topics like public and private schools and funding, the voucher system, the correlation between class and higher education, and what might be done to lessen the educational achievement gap between classes.

Offers advice to administrators on how to encourage the teachers in their schools or districts and create a climate that allows them to take risks and act as coaches to their students.

Assesses the state of American higher education, arguing that it maintains inequality and benefits the affluent.

Presents an overview of how school cultures function, and discusses four "types" of educators--believers, fundamentalists, tweeners, and survivors--and describes how to maintain a balanced dynamic between them to improve the school's culture and increase the learning potential for students.

Examines the history, problems, and concerns of public education in America.

Documents education reporter Kristina Rizga's four-year investigation into the education provided by Mission High School in San Francisco, in which she reports that the students are thriving and continuing on to college in high numbers in spite of the "failing grade" the school has been given because of low scores on standardized tests.

Provides an insider's account of the Chinese school system, revealing the secrets that make it both the best and worst in the world, discussing that despite turning out the world's highest-achieving students in reading, math, and science, Chinese educators, parents, and political leaders hate the system and long to send their kids to western schools; and discusses how current reforms in the United States parallel the classic Chinese system.

Continues the emphasis found in the earlier editions on delineating and assessing social changes that have major implications for education.

A basic textbook on educational philosophy.