1. Politics of Education
1.1. CONSERVATIVE
1.1.1. Perspective
1.1.1.1. Point of View
1.1.1.1.1. Feature Viewpoint
1.2. PROGRESSIVE
1.2.1. Visions
1.2.1.1. Beliefs
1.2.1.1.1. Video
2. Schools as Organizations
2.1. Alabama/Madison County Represenatives
2.1.1. State Senator
2.1.2. House of Represenatives
2.1.3. State Superintendent
2.1.4. Represenative of the State School Board
2.1.5. Local Superintendent
2.1.6. Local School Board
2.2. Japan
2.2.1. Educational System
2.2.2. Curriculum
2.2.3. Lesson from Japan
3. Curriculum and Pedagogy
3.1. Historical Curriculum Theory
3.1.1. Humanist Curriculum
3.1.2. Social Efficiency Curriculum
3.1.3. Developmentalist Curriculum
3.2. Sociological Curriculum Theory
3.2.1. Modern Functionalist Theory
3.2.2. Conflict theorists
3.2.3. neo-Weberian conflict theory of Randall Collins
3.2.3.1. Max Webar
3.2.3.2. Randall Collins
4. Equality of Opportunity
4.1. Educational Achievement
4.1.1. Class Stratification
4.1.1.1. Attainment
4.1.1.1.1. Class
4.1.1.1.2. Race
4.1.1.1.3. Gender
4.2. Coleman Study
4.2.1. James S. Coleman
5. Educational Inequality
5.1. Effective School Literature
5.1.1. Defined
5.1.2. Characteristics of ESL
5.1.3. Annette Lareau
5.1.3.1. Video
5.2. Explanations of Unequal Educational Achievement
5.2.1. Functionalist
5.2.2. Conflict Theorist
5.2.3. Interactionism
6. Educational Reform
6.1. School based reforms
6.1.1. Effective Teachers
6.1.1.1. Film: Stand and Deliver
6.1.1.1.1. Jaime Escalante
6.1.2. Private Schools
6.1.2.1. Intersectional Schools
6.1.2.1.1. Charter Schools
7. History of U.S. Education
7.1. 20th Century
7.1.1. 1909 1st JR High School in Columbus, OH
7.1.2. 1919 Progressive Education Programs (John Dewey)
7.1.3. 1932 New Deal Education programs based off Roosevelt deal.
7.1.4. 1944 G.I. Bill of Rights (Gave solders school rights)
7.1.5. 1954 Brown Vs. Board of Education
7.1.6. Sputnik leads to increased federal education funds
7.2. 21st Century
7.2.1. 1964-1965 Head Start Program
7.2.2. 1972 Title IX Prohibited discrimination on basis of ses
7.2.3. 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA)
7.2.4. 1979 Cabinet- level department of education is developed
7.2.5. 1983 A Nation at risk
7.2.6. 2002 No Child Left Behind Act
7.3. The Rise of the Common School
7.3.1. Led by Horace Mann of Massachusetts
7.3.2. Because of Mann, the 1st state normal school
7.3.3. 19th Century, education was very limited for women.
7.3.4. By 1821, Emma Hart Willard opened the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York.
7.3.5. In 1833, Oberlin Collegiate Institution in Ohio opened doors to women & African-Americans.
7.3.6. In 1831, Southerners believed that literacy bred both insubordination and revolution.
7.3.7. In 1846, Roberts V. City of Boston.
7.3.8. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
7.4. Conservative
7.4.1. Conservative critics react
7.4.2. 1983, Ronald Reagan founded the National Commission on Excellence.
7.4.3. Terrel Bell issued famous report A Nation at Risk.
7.4.4. A Nation at Risk:Video
8. Sociological Perspectives
8.1. Theoretical Perspective
8.1.1. Functional Therories
8.1.2. Conflict Theories
8.1.3. Interactional Theories
8.2. Impacts on Individual schooling
8.2.1. Knowledge and Attitudes
8.2.1.1. 1966 Coleman and Colleagues
8.2.1.2. 1979, Ron Edmonds
8.2.2. Employment
8.2.2.1. Research Information
8.2.2.2. Schools act as a gatekeeper in determining who will be employed in high-status occupations.
8.2.3. Teacher Behavior
8.2.3.1. Teachers are very busy people and wear many different hats: instructor, disciplinarian, bureaucrat, employer, friend, confidant, educator and more.
8.2.3.2. Role Strain
8.2.3.3. Self-fulfilling Prophecy
8.2.3.4. 1977, Persell
9. Philosophy of Education
9.1. Generic Notions
9.1.1. Plato:Website
9.1.2. Plato believed that the state should play an active role in eduation.
9.1.3. Plato distrusted the world and believed it was in a flux.
9.1.4. The only constant for Plato was Mathematics
9.1.5. Plato's method
9.1.6. Plato thought that education was important to a means of moving individuals collectively toward achieving the "GOOD."
9.2. Key Researchers
9.2.1. 1561-1626 Francis Bacon
9.2.2. 1632-1704 John Locke
9.2.3. John Locke thought that the human mind ordered sense data and experience and then reflected on it.
9.3. Goal of Education
9.3.1. Help individuals understand and then apply the priciples of science to help solve the provlems plaguing the modern world.
9.4. Role of Teachers
9.4.1. Teachers should be steeped in basic academic disciplines in order to transmit to their students the knowledge necessary for the continuance of the human race.
9.4.2. Teachers need a solid grounding in science, mathematics, and the humanities.
9.5. Method of Instruction
9.5.1. Realist support a number of methods
9.5.2. Lecture, & Question and answer
9.5.3. Competency-based assessment as a way of ensuring that students learn what they are beieng taught.
9.6. Curriculum
9.6.1. This would consist of the basics; science, math, reading and writing, and humanities.