Mathematics curriculum has long been a topic of keen interest in mathematics education and remains a central issue in efforts to improve mathematics learning opportunities for students. This Yearbook continues in a long line of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Yearbooks that have addressed various facets of the changing mathematics…

This paper offers an annotated bibliographical review of the preceding year's publications in the fields of social justice education. In this Year in Review for 2006, the authors present the work of three advanced Social Justice Education graduate students and the Editors of "Equity & Excellence in Education (EEE), who together have selected…

This yearbook addresses research on teacher induction and is designed to provide teachers and teacher educators with current research and practical guidelines for conceptualizing and implementing research. The conceptual framework of the yearbook is based on a triadic definition of scholarship: the production of knowledge, the interpretation and…

Discusses layout changes in the Warwick high school yearbook, reflecting changes in the school system. (RB)

Suggests ideas yearbook advisors can use, borrowing heavily from magazine designs. (RB)

The goals and themes of this yearbook are specified. A summary and preview of the issues and forces which have emerged during the course of history of mathematics education and which are to be discussed in the remaining chapters of this book are presented. (FL)

Provides the framework from which the issues and forces which have caused changes in American mathematics education have emerged. The development of mathematics education in America is traced from 1492 to the present. Five chronologically arranged periods are included each of which contains a summary of the dominant issues and forces of that…

Points out that it is not necessary and is sometimes undesirable for a school yearbook to have a theme. Provides guidelines for choosing and using a theme. (TJ)

Indicates that to build a successful yearbook advertising program an adviser must instill enthusiasm and then find students willing to sell advertising. Provides eight guidelines for structuring an advertising sales program. (TJ)

Argues in favor of summer delivery yearbooks, telling how they permit coverage of end-of-the-year school events. (GT)

Offers tips to student photographers on how to take good pictures for the school yearbook. (FL)

Suggests ways for yearbook caption writers to get complete information about pictures, offers ideas for beginnings of captions, and lists do's and don't's regarding what to include in captions. (GT)

Argues that school yearbooks need not have themes. Suggests that if a theme is to be used, the staff should consider what a theme is, where it should be used, and which particular themes to avoid. Describes a few themes that have been used successfully. (TJ)

This paper is the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ) fourth annual review of state laws, rules and regulations that govern the teaching profession. This year's "Yearbook" takes a different approach than the past editions, as it is designed as a companion to the 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook", NCTQ's most recent…