American education
Subtitle: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
By: edited by Thomas L. Good ; editor for the society, Margaret Early.
Contributors: Good, Thomas L., 1943-; National Society for the Study of Education.
Series: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education -- 99th, pt. 2.
Publisher: National Society for the Study of Education; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Education -- United States -- History.; Education and state -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Education and society, 1900-2000 / Sharon L. Nichols and Thomas L. Good; value: Teachers' work: yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Dee Ann Spencer; value: Motivation and learning in school: societal contexts, psychological constructs, and educational practices / Mary McCaslin and Eleanor DiMarino-Linnen; value: Reading in the Twentieth Century / P. David Pearson; value: Elementary and middle school mathematics at the crossroads / Douglas A. Grouws and Kristin J. Cebulla; value: Elementary school social studies: yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman, and Carolyn O'Mahony; value: Achievement testing in American schools / Jerome V. D'Agostino.