D. E. Mulcahy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University, USA.D. G. Mulcahy is Connecticut State University Professor and Professor in the School of Education and Professional Studies at Central Connecticut State University, USA. Roger Saul is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

This volume draws from a wide scope of topics in both Canada and the United States to highlight important worldwide educational policy issues of our day. At times exciting, at times sobering, this work reminds us of the broad impact that policy-making has on the day-to-day lives of the most vulnerable among us, our learners.

• Series Editor’s Preface, Colin Brock (University of Durham, UK)Introduction and Regional Overview, D. E. Mulcahy (Wake Forest University, USA), D. G. Mulcahy, (Central Connecticut State University, USA) and Roger Saul (University of New Brunswick, Canada)Part I: Canada1. Educational History: Themes, Movements and Moments, Theodore Christou and Sean Cousins (Queen's University, Canada)2. Transforming Indigenous Education in Canada: A Turning Tide, Fiona Walton (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)3. Difference, Educational Equality and Social Justice in Canada: Critical Analyses, Ali A. Abdi (University of Alberta, Canada)4. Canadian Teacher Training Reconsidered: Community-Based Education as a Response to Changing Times, Roger Saul (University of New Brunswick, Canada) and Naomi Nichols (York University, Canada)5. Moving Towards a More Independent and Collaborative (Online) School Culture, Maryam Moayeri (University of British Columbia, Canada)Part II: The United States 6. Contemporary Schooling in the United States: An Overview, Kelly Ann Kolodny (Framingham State University, USA)7. Turning Points: Critical Periods in Educating in the United States, John Rury (University of Kansas, USA)8. Demographic Change and the Suburban School Policy Challenges Ronnie Casella (Central Connecticut State University, USA)9. Education for Social Justice in the United States: The Peculiar Case of Mathematics Education, Kurt R. Stemhagen (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)10. The Internet in Education: Development and Challenges, Leonard J. Waks (Temple University, USA)11. World Language Education: Connecting with the Rest of the World, Audrey L. Heining-Boynton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) and Mary Lynn Redmond (Wake Forest University , USA)12. International Outreach in Education in the United States, Anthony C. Ogden (University of Kentucky, USA) and Sharon Brennan (University of Kentucky, USA)13. Fifty Years of American Higher Education, 1963-2013: A Faculty Member's Point of View, Wayne J. Urban (University of Alabama, USA)14. Presidents and Policies in American Education, 1981-2013, D. E. Mulcahy (Wake Forest University, USA) and D. G. Mulcahy (Central Connecticut State University, USA)Index