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Summary of Chapter 1 1.1 California Context Are California's Schools? 1.2 International Context Are U.S. Schools Beneath the Planet? 1.3 Fiscal Context Schools for Knowledge Work 1.4 Social Context The High Social Costs of Educational Failure 1.5 Wishfulness Sure, But My Kid Is Going to Be OK. . Right? Are Schools Improving? 1.7 History Have Schools Always Worked This Way? 1.8 Purpose Overview of Chapter 2 2.1 Diversity The Changing Face of America's Students 2.2 Poverty and Race Just How Do pupil's Backgrounds Affect Their School Performance? 2.3 Health, Nutrition and Learning Are Schools Accountable for Students' Health? 2.4 Parents A Kid's First Teacher 2.5 Levers to Change What Motivates Students? 2.7 Special Needs? 2.8 Foster Youth Educating Foster Kids 2.9 Undocu*ented Undocu*ented Students 2.10 Student Voices Overview of Chapter 3.1 Recruitment Who TeachesWhy? 3.2 Preparation and Certification The Way To Make a Teacher 3.3 Retention The Way to Keep a Teacher 3.4 Placement Who Teaches Where? How Do Teachers Improve? Just how Do Teachers Work Together? 3.7 Benefits The Advantages of Teaching 3.8 Pay Just How Has Teacher Pay Changed? If They're Succeeding 3.9 As*essment How Do Teachers Know? 3.10 Tenure and Educator Tenure - Good? Evil? 3.11 Pensions is a Teacher's Profession? 4.0 Spending Time. . Summary of Chapter 4 4.1 Early Childhood Yes, Preschool Topics 4.2 Clas* Size What Size Should Groups Be? 4.3 School Hours Will There Be Enough Time to Understand? 4.4 Timemanagement Spending School Time Well 4.5 Extratime and Tutoring Time to Master, or Time to Forget? 4.7 After-school What Should Happen After School? 4.8 Absences 5.0 Places For Learning Summary of Chapter 5 5.1 Where Would You Live? Zip Codes and School Quality 5.2 School Choice If There Is a Choice of Schools? 5.3 Selectivity and Diversity How Schools Sort Students 5.4 Atrisk When Regular School Does Not Cut It 5.5 Charter Schools