Americas Teachers or Quality Management

America's Teachers: An Introduction to Education

Author: Joseph Newman

“This book is well-written and is easily accessible to the reader. Each chapter begins with a good overview of the content and the chapters are divided in meaningful ways.”
—Daniel J. Thompson, Jr., Eastern Connecticut State University

“Newman does an excellent job of discussing the growing influence of standardized testing in U.S. public schools.”
—Winfred Pitts, Southeast Missouri State University

With clear and accessible writing and the strongest research base and documentation available, America’s Teachers: An Introduction to Education, Fifth Edition accurately reflects how teachers themselves feel about their work. With critical and informative material on teaching as an occupation, the foundations of education, and emerging issues affecting today’s classrooms, this textbook provides prospective teachers with a realistic look at teaching.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• NEW! Internet Blocks Located in every chapter. These blocks are designed to encourage students to explore issues addressed in the text in more depth.
• Stronger emphasis on cultural diversity has been integrated into every chapter, especially in Chapters 6 & 8.
• Information on the importance of state curriculum standards and high-stakes testing as the most prominent school reforms of the early 2000's has been added (Chs. 2, 7, 9 & 11).
• More attention to educational choice and private education, especially home schooling, is present in Chapter 10, “Private Schools versus Public Schools.”
• Updated information on students and youth culture can be found in Chapter8.

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Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Teaching as an Occupation
1	Deciding to Teach and Finding a Job	1
2	Earning a Living and Living with Evaluation	33
3	Learning to Teach and Proving Your Competence	70
4	Joining a Teacher Organization and Empowering a Profession	112
5	Exercise Your Rights and Fulfilling Your Responsibilities	151
Pt. II	Schools and Society
6	History of American Education	177
7	Theories of Education	221
8	Sociology of Education	261
9	Politics of Education	314
Pt. III	Issues for the Twenty-First Century
10	Private Schools versus Public Schools	361
11	Teachers and the Curriculum	406
	Index	444

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Quality Management: Creating and Sustaining Organizational Effectiveness

Author: Donna C S Summers

In a kaleidoscope, bits of glass are shown in ever-changing symmetrical patterns caused by their reflection from two or more mirrors. Saving the patterns is impossible because any movement disrupts the pattern and forms a new one. Running a business is a bit like a kaleidoscope. Decisions are made, strategies are defined and deployed, and patterns are set. Then something moves the entire system and the process must begin all over again. In an ever-changing world, quality management and its philosophies, tools, and techniques help organization manage their business effectively.

The second edition includes the following chapters:
• Supply Chain Management
• Lean Principles
• Benchmarking 

Significant new material focuses on the following:
• Customers
• Value Chains
• Process Improvement
• Ethics in Business
• Lean Management
• Supply Chain Management 

A special feature in each chapter, How do we know it’s working?, provides insights into a real organization’s pursuit of excellence.