1. Schools as Organizations
1.1. Senate of Alabama: Senator (Senior) Richard Shelby and Senator (Junior) Jeff Sessions- Alabama House of Representatives: Representative Mac McCutcheon (R), Representive Victor Gaston, and Jeffrey Woodard- Alabama State Super Superintendent is Michael Sentance. Cullman county Superintendent is Mr. Shane Barnette
1.2. To establish change within a school there must be many things brought to surface and managed. Reoccurring problems and disagreements lead that forefront. Change requires new forms of communication to become present through out the system many problems occur simply because of trust issues and lack of communication. Team building will become a large part of that process.
2. Curriculum and Pedagogy
2.1. Developmentalist Theory: Dewey and Peiget are two of my favorite theorist. I strongly agree with this method because it puts the focus on each individual child rather than the community itself. To be able to change a community it is important to be able to establish the difference between students, so that they will gain the most from their education as possible.
2.2. The chapter tends to establish the importance of understanding the change in how curriculum is taught, so that they can actively debate on an educated level. Without being properly educated, the Marxist of the world can change the process of educating young minds into something unsavory.
3. Equality of Opportunity
3.1. According to older studies it has been found that certian aspects of a person will determine whether they will be capabule of achieving higher goals. The theorist surmised that the the class, race, and gender were the main componets. However as the years have gone on the statistics seem to have changed due to the communtiy of the united states changing to equate equal opportunity. This being said it is important to continue this change of cu;ture so that future students will have anything to old them back from becoming who ever they want to become in life.
3.2. One answeris based off of the difference between private and public school systems along with whether they are academically oriented. The private schools seem to do a better job of enforcing discipline in a way that is consistent with student achievement. A second answer would be... It was determined that the class and race of the students would have a lot to do with effectiveness of the overall schools scores; however, the school and its staff are the final determining factor.
4. Educational Inequality
4.1. Cultural Deprivation theorizes that the working class and the non white students tend to need more help and guidance to ensure that their children are prepared for school. It says that that the parents are to blame for their children being behind other students due to lack of knowledge or time to properly prepare their children for school.
4.2. School-Centered Explanations for Educational Inequality
4.2.1. School Financing: school financing often can decrease the options for teaching materials. If a county school is located in an area where the land is not valued as wealthy or the population of the county is small then it tends to cut the amount of funding given to the school from their state government. This can often cripple them in their budget for new supplies and technology.
4.2.2. Between School Differences: The difference between a low income school, private, county, etc. can make a huge impact on the students. This impacts who their teachers are, the types of funding the school will receive, and the students attending the school.
4.2.3. Curriculum and Ability Grouping: Tracking is viewed as a important mechanism by which students are separated based on ability and to insure that the best and brightest receive the type of education required.
4.2.4. Gender and Schooling: Woman tend to feel that schools tend to gear their curriculum more towards males. It talks about them wanting to make the appropriate changes to ensure that it also includes females.
5. Educational Reform
5.1. School Reform
5.1.1. School to Work System: it provides students with a relevant education by allowing them to explore different careers and explore what skills are required.
5.1.2. Teacher Education: The need to attract and obtain teacher candidates. It is the need to recognize the type of education future educators will require.
5.2. Out Side the School System Reforms
5.2.1. School Vouchers: This would allow parents to cast their vote on school systems by determining where their money would go. This in turn would punish the bad systems and reward the good systems.
5.2.2. School Choice: It would allow market forces to shape school policy rather than subjecting educators to the heavy hand of the educational bureaucracy.
6. Politics of Education
6.1. Four Purposes of education
6.1.1. Intellectual- is to teach the basic skills such as reading writing and mathematics. It is also to teach specific knowledge like literature and history.
6.1.2. Political- Teaching allegiance to the political order to prepare people who will participate in politics.
6.1.3. Social- Helps to solve social problems such as learning how to work as a family.
6.1.4. Economics- To prepare students for their future occupational role in life to help over economic standards.
6.2. Perspectives
6.2.1. The role of schools in the conservative view is to insure the individuals and groups compete in a social environment.
6.2.2. unequal performance believes individuals or groups of students rise and fall on their own hard-work, initiative and intelligence.
6.3. Educational Problems
6.3.1. educational problems... Conservatives argue that when the academic standards were lowered this was the end of educational quality.Multicultural education, where they respond to all cultures, made them water down education. on traditional heritage of american and western civilizations.
6.3.2. Cultural realism- All values and ideas are equal. Schools lost their traditional roles of teaching moral standards and values.
6.3.3. Individuality and freedom allowed in schools caused a lose of disipline and authority over the students; because, the schools are state controlled they are amuned to the laws of competitive free market.