Books in the Critical Issues in American Education series

Takes readers into the everyday worlds of teacher training, and reveals the complexities and dilemmas they confront as they learn how to perform a job that many people assume anybody can do. Using rich qualitative data, Everitt analyzes how people make sense of their prospective jobs as teachers, and how their introduction to this profession is shaped by institutionalized rules and practices.

Paints a vivid picture of Latino student life at a liberal arts college, a research university, and a regional public university, outlining students' interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community.

Examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead students to different college destinations based on race and class. Megan Holland finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to sources of information, even among students in the same school and in schools with established college-going cultures.