Introduction and regional overview / D.E. Mulcahy, D.G. Mulcahy, and Roger Saul -- Canada -- Educational history: themes, movements, and moments / Theodore Michael Christou and Sean Cousins -- Transforming indigenous education in Canada: a turning tide / Fiona Walton -- Difference, educational equity and social justice in Canada: critical analyses / Ali A. Abdi -- Canadian teacher training reconsidered: community-based education as a response to changing times / Roger Saul and Naomi Nichols -- Moving towards a more independent and collaborative (online) school culture / Maryam Moayeri -- The United States of America -- Contemporary schooling: an overview / Kelly Kolodny -- Turning points: critical periods in educating the United States of America / John l. Rury -- Demographic change and suburban school policy challenges / Ronnie Casella -- Education for social justice in the United States of America: the peculiar case of mathematics education / Kurt Stemhagen -- The internet in education: developments and challenges / Leonard J. Waks -- World language education: connecting with the rest of the world / Audrey L. Heining-Boynton and Mary Lynn Redmond -- International outreach in education / Anthony C. Ogden and Sharon Brennan -- Fifty years of American higher education, 1963-2013: a faculty member's point of view / Wayne J. Urban -- Presidents and policies in American education, 1981-2013 / D. E. Mulcahy and D. G. Mulcahy.