In this 17th edition I have made extensive additions and deletions to improve readability and to update information and tables. In some chapters I have added new sections. Below is a list of changes and additions to each chapter.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Rearranged sections for improved readability.
- Added discussion of 2014 Colorado demonstrations over Advance Placement History.
- Added recent political controversies about the Common Core State Standards.
- Added 2014 response by Texas Freedom Network to Texas State School Board’s decisions on textbooks and history curriculum.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added example of proposed sex education unit for kindergarteners.
- Added new teacher education standards for sex education issued by the Future of Sex Education.
- Added material on the effectiveness of sex education courses.
- Updated statistics on teenage pregnancies.
- Updated rates of sexually transmitted diseases among youth.
- Added material on educational discrimination of LGBTQ students.
- Added report that US adults consider character education more important than education for the economy.
- Updated statistics on violent and property crimes.
- Added description of 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
- Added material on school crime from the US Department of Education’s The Condition of Education 2014.
- Added the Center for Disease Control’s official definitions of bullying and cyberbullying.
- Updated statistics on bullying and cyberbullying.
- Added University of Michigan survey of concerns about children’s health.
- Updated statistics on obesity.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added new section: Testing and Skills as Predictors of Economic Conditions.
- Added new Table 3.1: Earnings by Educational Attainment.
- Added new Table 3.3: Lifetime Earnings by Educational Attainment, Gender, and Race.
- Replaced table on educational attainment and lifetime earnings with a more recent one.
- Added latest statistics on income inequality.
- Added New Table 3.6 on differences in per pupil revenue between states and between school districts with differing concentrations of poverty.
- Added material on private fundraising to support schools in high-income school districts.
- Updated statistics on school dropouts.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Updated statistics on projections of future occupations and their educational requirements.
- Added statistics on growing income inequality in the US.
- Added arguments that investment in education can reduce income inequality.
- Added material on the distinction between soft and hard skills.
- Added new statistics on childhood poverty.
- Updated US government poverty thresholds.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added new statistics on foreign-born US population from Africa.
- Added material on Mexicans who are descended from Africans.
- Added 2014 statistics on school segregation.
- Added section on Title IX protecting transgender students and all other students, no matter what their sexual identity.
- Added material on meeting the goals of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Updated percentage of students with particular disabilities in public schools
- Added material on writing IEP.
- Added material from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s “Guidelines for Inclusion: Ensuring Access to Education for All.”
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added discussion of non-whites as the new majority in US schools.
- Added 2014 US Census statistics on the number of foreign-born in the US population.
- Added a discussion of the Immigration Act of 1990.
- Added discussion of the 2014 “Findings and Recommendations Prepared by the Bureau of Indian Education Study Group Submitted to the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior and Education.”
- Added 2014 projected enrollments of Asian students.
- Added new table on educational attainment of foreign- and native-born citizens.
- Added new table on educational attainment of foreign-born by region of the world.
- Added new table on poverty levels of foreign-born.
- Added new table on percentage of the foreign-born population who spoke a language other than English at home.
- Added material on lack of preparation of teachers for instructing English Language Learners.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added section on “Global Migration of the World’s Peoples.”
- Added material on the 2010 National Association for the Education of Young Children program “Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves.”
- Added material about the 2014 curriculum of the Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center: “Perspectives for a Diverse America: A K-12 Literacy Based Anti-Bias Curriculum.”
- Added material on continuing low scores of females on the SAT math test.
- Added material on helping girls achieve in STEM.
- Added material on continued bias against women in science classes.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added five new tables on the social composition of school boards.
- Added discussion of court decisions related to choice plans in Arizona and Indiana.
- Updated statistics on number of students in charter schools and added three new tables on charter school characteristics.
- Added material from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and on the Peak to Peak Charter School and KIPP Academies.
- Added new material on global education businesses.
- Updated section on home schooling.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added section on student privacy and big data.
- Added discussion raised about the potential consequences and lack of longitudinal research regarding the Common Core State Standards and mandated testing.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added material about the convergence of issues in the NEA and AFT platforms regarding standardized testing, state tenure, and dismissal laws and performance evaluation.
- Added material on decreasing enrollments in teacher education programs.
- Added material on increasing job dissatisfaction among teachers.
- Chapter edited to improve readability.
- Added new section, Skills: The New Global Currency.