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American education
New to this edition
Keeping American Education current, I have updated and added new tables and new chapter sections. Below is a list of these changes. The most important event since the last edition is issuance by the National Governors Association of the Common Core Standards. These standards are discussed in Chapter 1 and Chapter 9.
1. Chapter 1: Added two new sections "Common Core Standards: Protected
or Prepared- Childhood?" and "Impact of Educational Goals: Common
Core Standards and Literacy"
2. Chapter 2: Included text from No Child Left Behind on Sex Education
3. Chapter 2: Included new sex education requirements for New York City
Schools
4. Chapter 3: Updated statistical tables
5. Chapter 4: Added new section "Child Poverty"
6. Chapter 6: Added and updated statistical tables
7. Chapter 7: Added new section "Global Responses to Education of Linguis¬
tic and Cultural Minorities"
8. Chapter 8: Added new section "Online and Distance Learning" and statisti¬
cal table on charter schools
9. Chapter 9: Added new section "Common Core State Standards"
10. Chapter 10: Added new section "Assault on Teachers Unions' Collective
Bargaining Rights"
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