Teaching to change the world

Part I: Democracy, diversity, and inequality

The U.S. schooling dilemma: diversity, inequality, and democractice values

History and culture: how expanding expectations and powerful ideologies shape schooling in the United States

Politics and philosophy: the struggle over the school curriculum

Policy and law: rules that schools live by

Part II: The practice of teaching to change the world

The subject matters: constructing knowledge across the content areas

Instruction: teaching and learning across the content areas

Assessment: measuring what matters

Classrooms as communities: developing caring and democratic relationships

Part III: The context of teaching to change the world

The school culture: where good teaching makes sense

School structure: sorting students and opportunities to learn

The community: engaging with families and neighborhoods

Teaching to change the world: a profession and a hopeful struggle.