Download or read book Transitions in American Education written by Donald Parkerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise social history of teaching from the colonial period to the present. By revealing the words of teachers themselves, it brings their stories to life. Synthesizing decades of research on teaching, it places important topics such as discipline in the classroom, technology, and cultural diversity within historical perspective.