America: Pathways to the Present - Modern American History Teacher's Edition

by Andrew R.L. Cayton, Elisabeth Israels Perry, Linda Reed

2005 Prentice Hall Pathways to the Present, Modern American History -- Teacher's Edition (TE)(H) by Andrew Cayton, Elisabeth Israels Perry, Linda Reed, & Allan M. Winkler *** 9780131282087 ***1048 Pages

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

A specialist in the history of early America and the Atlantic World, Andrew Robert Lee Cayton was Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. A native of Cincinnati, he received a B.A. with high honors from the University of Virginia and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from Brown University. He was previously a Visiting Professor of History at The Ohio State University as well as the John Adams (Fulbright) Professor of American Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, The Washington Post Sunday Book World, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Reviews in American History, The Journal of American History, The William and Mary Quarterly, The Journal of the Early Republic and The Great Plains Quarterly.

Reviews

[Jessica López-Barkl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, I just finished this today. I started in August, and I had decided to read everything...all of the tools, all of the multi-intelligence activities, all of the questions, all of the tests, all of the supplementary materials, yup, all of it. And, now, I am done. Praise the high school history gods! I have been reading this textbook alongside my 11th grade students' weekly homework assignments; I've been making them read everything, as well, because I don't believe that their End-of-Course-Exam (the EOC they're required to take and put my name on the front) is only the things that it purports to be on the website. So...to cover my butt (because I don't believe the EOC is for them...it's for me and the No-Child-Left-Behind-Teacher-Inquisition) and help them with school and federal goals of information reading and writing, I had them read everything, and then I created Prezis that cover what they are supposedly only required to know for this EOC. I was suspect when the EOC guidelines said they only really needed to know the Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway and D-Day, in regards to WWII. There was no mention of them having to know the Battle of Stalingrad. How the heck are they supposed to understand the initial Cold War tensions if they don't understand the ramifications of the Battle of Stalingrad. Ugh! So...I told them to read everything. So, it's not a bad textbook, but, considering that it was published in 2005; it's severely out-dated; an embarrassment in this Teacher Evaluation Inquisition Era that all K-12 teachers find themselves in. It's of course our fault when students don't learn, and the teacher evaluation system is the quantitative way to prove that...god forbid that it be the federal government's lack of spending on good resources that will maintain the standards that they want the teachers to uphold. It can't be the resources; it has to be the teachers. It can't be the lack of accountability for parents; it has to be the teachers. It can't be the supposed "Laziest Generation" (side note: why would any generation embrace that title?) and their inability to study or be active learners; it has to be the teachers. There is no trinity of learning anymore; it is solely on the teacher's shoulders to ensure that no child is, indeed, left behind. In the Information Age, where all information is at our fingertips, literally; there is obviously a disconnect to the idea of the textbook...it should probably go the way of the newspaper...or the Dodo... It would be a lot easier for the public education system to move to tablets in the classroom and the purchasing of virtual textbooks that are continuously updated because, frankly, it's embarrassing to be forced to have school and federal goals of better information reading and writing, when the examples of said reading and writing are so out-of-date... In an age where we have an Industrial Revolution every month; we can't expect a textbook to stay current for five-plus years anymore...it's, simply, irresponsible...okay...soapbox done for the day...