1. Politics of Education
1.1. Purposes of Education
1.1.1. Intellectual Purpose
1.1.2. Political Purpose
1.1.3. Social Purpose
1.1.4. Economic Purpose
1.2. Liberal Perspective
1.2.1. The role of school
1.2.2. Explanation of Unequal Performance
1.2.3. Definition Of Educational Problems
2. Philosophy of Education
2.1. Pragmatism
2.1.1. Generic Notions
2.1.2. Key Researchers
2.1.3. Goal Of Education
2.1.4. Role of Teacher
2.1.5. Method Of Instruction
2.1.6. Curriculum
3. Schools as Organizations
3.1. Major Stakeholders - Madison City School District
3.1.1. State Senators
3.1.2. House of Representatives
3.1.3. State Superintendent of Education
3.1.4. Representative on State School Board
3.1.5. Local Superintendent
3.1.6. Local School Board
3.2. Elements of change within school processes and school cultures
3.2.1. Conflict
3.2.2. New Behaviors
3.2.3. Team Building
3.2.4. Content
4. Equality of Opportunity
4.1. Impact on Educational Outcomes
4.1.1. Class
4.1.2. Race
4.1.3. Gender
4.2. Responses to Colemon Study from 1982
5. Educational Inequality
5.1. Cultural Deprivation Theory
5.1.1. Intellectual Development
5.1.2. Attitudes and Beliefs
5.2. School-centered explanations for educational inequality
5.2.1. School Financing
5.2.2. Pedagogic practices
5.2.3. Curriculum and ability grouping
5.2.4. Gender and Schooling
6. History of U.S. Education
6.1. Reform
6.1.1. Civil Rights Movement
6.2. Historic Interpretation Of U.S. Education
6.2.1. Democratic-Liberal Perspective
7. Sociological Perspectives
7.1. Theoretical Perspectives
7.1.1. Functional Theory
7.1.2. Conflict Theory
7.1.3. Interactional Theory
7.2. Effects of schooling
7.2.1. Knowledge
7.2.2. Attitudes
7.2.3. Employment
7.2.4. Tracking
7.2.5. Gender Inequality
8. Curriculum and Pedagogy
8.1. Traditions of Teaching
8.1.1. Mimetic (Conservative)
8.1.2. Transformative (Progressive)
8.2. Curriculum Theory
8.2.1. Developmentalist Theory
9. Educational Reform
9.1. School-based reforms
9.1.1. Privatization
9.1.2. Teacher Quality
9.2. Reforms (societal, economic, community, or political reforms)
9.2.1. School Finance Reforms
9.2.2. Full Service and Community Schools Reform