Энциклопедия "Encyclopedia of American Education"

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Title: Encyclopedia of American Education (3 Volume Set)
Author: Harlow G. Unger
Publication date: 2007 (3d edition)
ISBN: 0816068879
Number of pages: 1400
Format: pdf.zip
Size: 10.5 MB
Language: English
password: encyclopedia

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The Encyclopedia of American Education (Third Edition)
is designed as an easy-to-use reference for the entire educational community:
above all, students of education, but also teachers, librarians, parents, school administrators,
school board members, legislators and all others directly or indirectly affiliated with
or interested in education and the education process.

This three-volume set by an education journalist contains nearly 2,500 entries on every aspect
of education at all levels from colonial times to the present.
Legal issues, teaching methods, types of schools, educational organizations and programs,
tests, publications, administration, and leading educators are some of the broad areas covered.
Articles range from a few sentences (voucher system, classical realism, phoneme)
to several pages (school choice, prayer-in-school, student unrest),
with most falling somewhere in between (Channel One, Coleman Report, multicultural education).
Entries for each state briefly survey the history of education there.
The one for Alabama states that "fewer than 30% of its adults have high school diplomas";
other sources say more than 60 percent are high-school graduates.
Entries give concise definitions and descriptions, which will be sufficient for most users.
The treatment is often historical, however; entries do not always delve into current issues.
For instance, the incorporation of trade books into the elementary curriculum is not mentioned
in children's literature; the controversy over alternatives to vivisection is not found under biology.
There is no entry for the Internet, a topic that certainly has many implications for education,
and it is not mentioned in computers. Curiously, saving space is provided
as the reason library catalogs and other holdings were converted to computer files in recent years.