Hot-Button Issues for Teachers: What Every Educator Needs to Know About Leadership, Testing, Textbooks, Vouchers, and More

Vairo (academic affairs, California State U. School of Education) et al., who have collectively been teachers at all levels of education, identify and discuss issues facing the teaching profession in the US. They provide advice for dealing with these problems, which entail school violence, salaries, merit pay, teacher accountability, testing, national standards, ethics, teacher burnout, pedagogy vs. subject matter, content, professional preparation, classroom management, homework, parent-teacher-principal relationships, and other topics. There is no index. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Philip D. Vairo is the former president of Worcester State College and acting vice president for academic affairs and dean emeritus of California State University's School of Education. He was distinguished professor of education and director of the Miami Touro Project, Touro College. Sheldon Marcus was the associate dean in the Graduate School of Education and former chair of Urban Education prior to returning to full-time teaching and research as professor of education at Fordham University in New York City. Max Weiner is currently dean and professor emeritus of Fordham University's Graduate School of Education. He was also a professor and dean of teacher education at the City University of New York.