• Readability. The text's readability makes it accessible and engaging for the student. The authors use different approaches throughout to convey information to make the text as interesting as possible. They use humor and an accessible writing style to involve and challenge the student in active reading.
• Comprehensive Coverage. Teachers, Schools, and Society provides a comprehensive introduction to education and teaching. Part I: Teachers and Students discusses what teaching is like today - opportunities, students and teachers; Part II: Schools and Curriculum looks at schools and curriculum; Part III: Foundations presents the foundations of education; and Part IV: Tomorrow discusses equal opportunity, technology, and what the student can expect in her first classroom.
• A Diversity-Focused Approach. The text includes an integrated, multicultural/diversity-oriented approach in all chapters, including the most comprehensive coverage of the roles and experiences of girls and women.
• Technology Coverage. Technology in Education (Ch. 13) has been revised to provide the most current coverage of technology in education - the latest computer technologies and how they are being used in schools, and how technology is affecting education. Technology-related coverage is integrated throughout the text as appropriate.
• Scholarship. The text has been updated to include the most current scholarship.
• Supplements. The text is accompanied by a wealth of resources including a new Annotated Instructor's Edition; an Instructor's Manual/Test Bank (with extensive, creative activities; and added test questions as well as a new alternative assessment activity for each chapter); a computerized Test Bank, an Instructor's Resource CD-Rom (with the Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and PowerPoints); full-color text-specific Overhead Transparencies; The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Education Overhead Transparencies and PowerPoint slides; the video program; the Online Learning Center (that includes instructor resources in additional to student resources); and a Making the Grade CD-Rom (with practice quizzes for students).

Pedagogical Features

Purposeful Pedagogy. The pedagogical structure of Teachers, Schools, and Society has been refined in the sixth edition so that the overall system is interactive. Reflection opportunities have been added to features and figures to prompt students to think about what the information means and how it related to what they are learning.

Each part

• Begins with a Class Act that relates stories from future teachers, teachers, and teacher educators about their involvement in education
• Ends with an Inter-missions section the provides portfolio activities keyed to INTASC standards

Each chapter begins with:

• Focus Questions that prepare the student for the chapter content ahead
• A What Do You Think? feature that links students to the Online Learning Center for interactive preparation for the chapter content. Their responses to questions are fed into a national polling system so they can see how other students using the text responded
• A Chapter Preview that gives an introduction to the chapter

Each chapter includes:

• Interactive Activities that students can link to on the Online Learning Center to apply what they are learning
• A You Be the Judge feature that presents both sides of an argument. Students can go to the Online Learning Center to respond to the reflection questions following the feature, and have the option of submitting their responses to their instructors.
• A Frame of Reference feature that takes a closer look at important topics
• An In the News feature that summarizes interesting education-related new items. Additional In the News summaries are located on the Online Learning Center.
• A Photo-synthesis feature that presents photos for analysis
• A Profile in Education feature that highlights important figures in education. Additional information about the educator profiled is available on the Online Learning Center.
• Numerous Figures, Tables and Photographs provide additional information and interest

Each chapter ends with:

• A Chapter Review feature that alerts students to the review materials, including quizzes, located on the online student study guide
• A comprehensive Chapter Summary
• Key Terms and People with page references
• Discussion Question and Activities that also list WEB-tivity activities located on the Online Learning Center
• A Reel to Real Teaching feature that highlights an education-related movie along with reflection questions and follow-up activities. Students can submit their reviews of the movies on the Online Learning Center.
• For Further Reading that provides an annotated list of books on topics related to the chapter.