American teachers : histories of a profession at work /
Donald R. Warren, editor.
- New York : Macmillan, c1989.
- xiii, 472 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
"A Publication of the American Educational Research Association." Includes index.
Bibliography: p.
Who became teachers? : the social characteristics of teachers in American history / John L. Rury -- Incentives and rewards to teaching / Susan B. Carter -- Child gardening : the teaching of young children in American schools / Barbara Beatty -- The teacher in the country school / Wayne E. Fuller -- Agents of democracy : urban elementary-school teachers and the conditions of teaching / James W. Fraser -- Career ladders and the early public high school teacher : a study of inequality and opportunity / David F. Labaree -- Teacher activism / Wayne J. Urban -- Teacher preparation in the nineteenth century : institutions and purposes / Jurgen Herbst -- Teachers and teacher training in the twentieth century / William R. Johnson. "Let us go and buy a school master " : historical perspectives on the hiring of teachers in the United States, 1750-1980 / Michael W. Sedlak -- Man/woman/teacher : gender, family and career in American educational history / Geraldine Joni��?�ch Clifford -- The history of Blacks in teaching : growth and decline within the profession / Linda M. Perkins -- The persistence of reform in American schools / Larry Cuban -- Practice and policy : notes on the history of instruction / David K. Cohen -- The future of the past : what do we need to know about the history of teaching? / David Tyack.