"If you think that Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education was written to introduce you to the world of teaching, you are only half right. This book also reflects our excitement about a life in the classroom and is intended to spark your own fascination about working with children. We wrote this book to share with you the joys and the challenges we feel about teaching, as well as the importance of fairness and justice in school and society. With this fourth edition, our goals are unchanged. We work hard to provide you with information that is both current and concise, and we work even harder to create an engaging book--one that will give you a sense of the wonderful possibilities found in a career in the classroom"--