Teaching to Change the World is an up-to-the-moment, engaging, social-justice oriented introduction to education and teaching, and the challenges and opportunities they present.

List of Figures, Concept Tables, and Focal Points Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Democracy, Diversity, and Inequity 1. The U.S. Schooling Dilemma: Diversity, Inequity, and Democratic Values 2. History and Culture: How Expanding Expectations and Powerful Ideologies Shape Schooling in the United States 3. Politics and Philosophy: The Struggle over the School Curriculum 4. Policy and Law: Rules That Schools Live By Part II: The Practice of Teaching to Change the World 5. The Subject Matters: Constructing Knowledge Across the Content Areas 6. Instruction: Teaching and Learning Across the Content Areas 7. Assessment: Measuring What Matters 8. Classrooms as Communities: Developing Caring and Democratic Relationships Part III: The Context of Teaching to Change the World 9. The School Culture: Where Good Teaching Makes Sense 10. School Structure: Sorting Students and Opportunities to Learn 11. The Community: Engaging with Families and Neighborhoods 12. Teaching to Change the World: A Profession and a Hopeful Struggle Bibliography Index