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NCLB

GWBs initiative, bipartisan approved effort

Diversity Penalty

schools are penalized for having a high population of ELL and Special Ed Students. Catch 22.

Accountability


Testing Requirements, AYP, Consequences, Public Reporting

Dropout Rates

The dropout rates have INCREASED due to NCLB because schools are focused on positive test scores and AYP

Linda Darling Hammond's Marshall Plan for Teaching

recruit new teachers by underwriting their preparation, adding incentives for veteran teachers teaching within needy schools, "teaching hospitals"

The good with NCLB

flags differences in race and class, shines spotlight on longstanding inequalities

the bad with NCLB

lawsuits against the government regarding unfunded costs, drill and kill approach, harms special ed and ell

America falls about

halfway in worldwide rankings

funding

NCLB allocates about 10% of most schools budgets

tracking

combination of ability grouping and curriculum differentiation

Oakes found in her study that...

tracking often prevents rather than promotes educational goals within schools, has a disproportionate impact on poor children and students of color,

assumptions underlying tracking...

students differ in academic potential, separation is necessary to manage the difference, academic aptitude are stable, classification can be easily accomplished

common and predictable characterisitics

intellectual performance is judged and then placement is determined, tracks are labeled according to the performance level of students in them, curriculum is tailored to students in them, the collective groups form a hierarchy

high track

high status knowledge, more time for learning, more friendly and warm environment

low track

low status knowledge, more time with discipline problems, focused on discipline

factors for thrivin

temperament, insightful, supporting and affirming relationships, moral strengths

psychological resilience

being able to bounce back after adversity or tragedy

inclusive schools

safe spaces, complex pedalogical thought, prepare the next generation of citizens

inclusive curricula and pedagogy

subtle, but powerful inclusive learning community

inclusive policies and practices

support values of safety and respect, non discriminatory policies,

primary message of waiting for superman

american public education is a failed enterprise, money is not the problem, teacher unions are a barrier to reform, bad teachers are protected by unions, poverty is not the problem

statistics on charter schools v. public school

17% of charter schools are better


37% were worse


46% were equivalent

how much of test data is attributed to teacher quality

7.5-10%

Geoffrey Canada

makes 400,000 a year


has nearly 200 million in assets

wfs believes that teacher unions are

protecting "bad teachers"

DFER

democrats for education reform, contributed to political candidates for local and state offices who pledge to promote charter schools

Americans are obsessed with

tracking student performance, accountability, competition, and school choice

Finnish schools assess through

performance based or teacher made assessments

finland's schools primary drive since the 1980s has been

education being necessary to even our social inequality

necessary for social order because it justifies class differences

The Noble Lie

Jefferson believed education was the

future foundation of order will be laid out there and necessary for a stable society

treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

annexation of 525000 miles that includes states as well as the exclusion of cultural heritage

natural aristocracy

groups of citizens selected to lead through merit and talent

Sources of enlightenment thought

John Locke and Jean Jacques Rosseau

purpose of virginia plan

schools would function as a little republic

abigail adams

urged her husband to remember the ladies and to protect them from tyrannical men

Mary Wollstonecraft

wrote the Vindication of the Rights of Women. believed in full rights for women and men, and ample job opportunities

subtractive schooling

strives to remove any culture from students and Americanize them

influences on public school growth

urbanization, industrialization, and immigration

Horace Mann

wanted self-discipline for self-government

appeals to wealthy

would make workers malleable and docile

appeals to working class

would even out class differences

Michael Katz's critique

common schools were a means of social control for wealthy to control the working class

feminization of teaching

refers to belief to nurturing nature, low cost, superior virtue of teachers

kid catching

kids were hogtied and taken off of the reservation and put in boarding schools

impact of boarding schools

individuals werent prepared for life off the reservation or life on the reservation

assimilation process

hair was cut, appearance was changed, name was changed, language was removed

naming was significant

it was pregnant with cultural significance, it was their identity within the tribe

Alfred Binet

developed iq tests and believed that iq could be increased by education

Henry Goddard

translated the BinetSimon scale. believed that intelligence is NOT affected by later influences

Carl Brigham

created theoretical foundations of SAT, culture of standardized testing, and explained differences in racial superiority

alpha test

for the literate army people, measured directions.math/judgment

beta test

for the illiterate army people measured memory, matching, geometry

pygmalion effect

self-fufilling prophecy

deficit thinking

blames the victim, notion that kids have internal defects

Alvarez v. lemmon grove

based on the 14th amendment, first successful desegregation case, isolated as local event

language exclusion

less than 7% offering bilingual education, sink or swim pedalogical practice of English only education

unions evolved as

a way to protect the job security of self-employed artisans

changes ushered in by public schools

centralization, consolidation, specialization, and superintendents

John Dewey (pedalogical progressive)

education is not preparation for life, but life itself

Ella Flagg young (pedalogical progressive)

promoted sharing power to teachers, promoted student centered learning

John Dewey and the nature of children

kids are both naturally social and curious

two fallacies

seed growth is limited because its line of growth is fixed. growth cannot occur without atmospheric influence

initiative in growth comes from

needs and powers of the individual

ultimate test of education

is its use and application in carrying on and improving the common life of all

Do negros need separate schools?

necessary only so far as to provide education for the race

proper education

a sympathetic connection between student and teacher, knowledge of the history and background of black students, proper facilities

model minority stereotype

smart, achievement oriented, hardworking, respectful

voluntary minorities

see themselves as guests and feel the need for social mobility

involuntary minorities

getting educated feels like you are sacrificing your identity to assimmilate into a society you were forced into

Lee's critique

fails to explain why Asians do not perform as well in their respective countries in the US, fails to explain poor achievement across Asian Americans, treats voluntary minorities as a homogeneous group, thereby ignoring group differences

Goals 2000:

lowered intensity of criticism, did not increase funding to DOE, cut grants/loans, no substantial effect

A Nation At Risk

handout policy, school choice, voucher experiments, home schooling, educational excellence. the root of the problem and its solution lies in education

school choice/vouchers

school choice translates as privatization

public education system is...

too big for charter schools/vouchers to have a real impact

manufactured crisis

no significant decline in performance

NCLB focused on

shift to mandated testing

site based management

system with councils that often consists of teachers, parents, often creates tension

sputnik

historical event that created anxiety

Brown v. Board

responsible for an increase in High School Graduation Rates butttt (...)

Constitution 1787

constitution only refers to equal representation in the upper house

14th Amendment

granting equal protection of the laws (equal protection clause)

double taxation

refers to blacks who were taxed to pay for whites schools but also required to fund their own schools

David Berliner study

disaggragated international test scores