Foundations of Education

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• The new edition is available as a digital option through SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class. 
• New data on how education reform, policy changes, societal influences, and student diversity affect teaching and learning.
• “Recent Trends” analyzes the growing influence of education privatization, social-emotional learning, and personalized learning, and their impact on student attainment.
• Expanded coverage of student diversity includes marginalized, gifted, and LGBTQ+ students, and an analysis of how students’ perceptions of microaggressions influence their learning.
• Includes new Teachers’ “Model Code of Ethics” to guide PreK-12 educators in their decision making and to help teacher preparation programs nurture their teacher candidates’ ethical problem-solving capacities.
• Greater emphasis on how money matters in improving student outcomes, including an eye-opening exercise in fiscal equity, and an analysis of recent trends of using taxpayer dollars to pay for private education. 
• Includes coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, how it changed how we use technology to plan and deliver instruction, and the equity issue it raises. 

• “Learning Objectives” correlate to the main sections of each chapter to help students focus their attention on key information.
• “American Educational Spotlight” sections contain professional and personal accounts of notable individuals from diverse backgrounds who have contributed in a major way to the topic under study.
• “Reflect & Discuss Activities” such as minds-on, small group and class exercises immediately follow major concepts in each chapter to help students make the information they read relevant and personally meaningful.
• “Did you get it quizzes?” allow students to measure their performance against the learning objectives in each chapter. 
• “Diverse Voices” are included in several chapters in the form of personal essays from individuals who have encountered problems relating to disability, race, sexual identity, and poverty, as well as suggestions for how teachers can help students with similar experiences. 
• “Flip Sides” presents a range of philosophical and practical educational dilemmas to encourage students to apply their learning. 
• “Icons” appear throughout exploring issues on diversity, Common Core State Standards, Technology, and InTASC Standards.