1. Theory concerned the relative failure of many of the compensatory education programs that were based on its assumptions about why disadvantage children have lower levels of achievement than more advantage children. Effective school research: The funding that within-school differences raised question about the common-sense argument that students from lower simply because they attend inferior schools. Curriculum and Ability Grouping. The fact that different group of students in same school perform very differently suggest that these outcomes. School Financing, Public Schools are financed though a combination of revenues from local, states, and federal sources. However, the majority of funds come from state and local taxes, with local property taxes a significant source. Property taxes are based on the value of the property in local communities and therefore is a proportional tax. School centered explanation however suggest that school process are central to understanding unequal educational performance. In 1980s educational performance. In 1980 educational researchers examined carefully the myriad process within schools that explain the sources of unequals academic achievement.
2. 1. The reform I feel made most influence on education was Equality of Opportunity making it easier for everyone to be able to purse higher education. Unlike the one who service in the military will have their schooling paid for.
2.1. 2. Tension between equity and excellence, between social and intellectual functions of schooling, and over differing responses to the questions. Education I whose interest? Education for whom? The US school system has expanded to serve more students for longer periods of the time than any other system in the modern world.
3. Politics of Education
3.1. 1.Intellectual, Political, Social, and Economic
3.1.1. Intellectual purpose of schooling are teach basic cognitive skills such as writing, math, and reading: to transmit specific knowledge. Political purpose of schooling are to inculcate allegiance to the existing political order; to prepare citizens who will participate in this political order; to help assimilate diverse cultural groups into a common political order; Social purpose of schooling are to help solve social problems; to work as one of many institutions, such as the family and the church. Economic purpose of schooling are to prepare students for their later occupational roles and to selects,train, and allocate individuals into the division of labor.
3.1.1.1. 2.The role of the school; is a central focus of each of the persepectives and is at the heart of their different analyses. The schools role in the broadest sense is directly concerned with aims, purpose, and functions of education in the society.
4. History of U.S. Education
5. Sociological Perspectives
6. Philosophy of Education
7. Schools as Organization
7.1. I live in district 5 and the stakeholder are as followed: State senator, Greg Reed, House of Representatives, Mo Brooks, State Superintendent, Pam Hill serving on one or more legislative committee is an important part of a state senator's job. Committee have regularly scheduled meetings to review proposed legislation. At each meeting, committee members listen to presentations from bill sponsor and public testimony from lobbyists and other interest parties. A state representative is a politician who serves in a state-level legislative branch. Local school boards have been an integral feature of the U S public education system for nearby 100 years, and they are widely regarded as the principle democratic body capable of representing citizens in local education decisions,. The formal institutional roles assigned to school boards, and the designated position board members play as representatives of the community, would lead one to believe that the school boards have considerable influence over educational decisions considerable influence over educational decisions and provides a key social and political connection to the schooling process.
7.1.1. The Social Efficiency Theory is more of a social criticism of the effect of education on certain populations. Social Efficiency Theory doesn't focus on learning philosophies but provides focus on learning philosophies but provides answer to the question, " What are the real result of our education system?" Social Efficiency Theory is also distinctive because its creators and proponents are economists (Bowles and Gintis) and an anthropologist (Ogbu) as opposed to educators. The mimetic method tradition is based on the viewpoint that the purpose of education is to transmit specific knowledge to students. Its called the didactic method, where the teacher and students relies on lecture and presentation to get the information to the students.
8. Curriculum and Pedagogy
9. Equality of Opportunity
9.1. Race is related to educational outcomes is underiable, although, given the nature of U.S. society it is extremely difficuly to separate race from class. In a society as segregated a that in the United States, it is not surprising that minority students receive fewer and interior educational opportunities than white students, explanations as to why minorities underachieve compared to whites vary. Minorities do not receives the same educational opportunities as whites and their rewards for educational attainment are significantly less. The way that class, race, and gender each inpact educational outcome, class dependind on the social class you full under most people is not expected to computer school because, don't have the funds to do so. The longer someone staus in school the more money it will cost. If you are in the lower class or working class chances are those children want to be able to get financial help from their parents. Gender, today, females and less likely to drop out of school than males, and are most likely to have a higher level of reading proficiency than males. The same is true for writing. The one area that males do better than females is in mathematics,
9.1.1. the most convicing of which is related to the behavior of classroom teachers who tend to assume that female will not do as well on their ACTS than females. It should be added that more women are now attending post secondary institutions than men, all thought it is true that many of the postsecondary institutions that women attend are less academically and socially prestigious than those postsecondary institutions attends by men and women in terms of educational attainment, have been reduced.
10. Educational Inequlity
11. Educational Reform
11.1. School- business partnership have attracted considerable media attention, but there is little convincing evidence that they have significantly in approved schools or that as a means of reform, school-business partnership will address the fundamental problems facing U.S. Education. School-to-work programs their intent was extend what had been a vocational emphasis to non-collage-bound students regarding skills necessary for successful employment ad to stress the importance of work based learning.
11.1.1. The types of reforms included state intervention, cost money, and low income, high minority schools often have significantly less money to spend, despite the availability of federal Tile1 funds. For several decades at least, school accountability has been a prominent issue on the national education scene. Accountability has taken many forms often involving state regulations or oversight. Its has included state certification of school personal and of schools districts statewide testing and assessments of pupils: state monitoring of local fiscal, management and educational practices; local fiscal, management, and educational practices; local distract and school-specific information to the public; and state intervention in the operation of local districts when problem were identified and solution were determined to be beyond the local capacity.