ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what today’s teachers spend most of their time teaching-the academic subjects. It describes the debates that swirl around progressive teachers like Kimberly Min. Today as in the past, debates about what and how to teach are very political. They arouse the public’s interests, passions, and fears about how schooling portrays the culture and how the culture might be changed by what schools teach. Clearly, teachers are not merely knowledge technicians parceling out a preestablished, neutral commodity called subject matter.
