1. Conservative Perspective
1.1. William Graham Sumner
1.2. Ronald Reagan
1.3. individual initiative
2. Politics of Education
2.1. Educational policy and reform
2.2. Traditional
2.2.1. hard work, family unity, individual initiative
2.2.2. schools should pass on the best of what was and what is
2.3. Education and schooling- different
2.3.1. Included
2.3.2. Included
2.3.3. Excluded
2.4. Role of the school
2.4.1. conservative
2.4.1.1. essential to economic productivity and social stability
2.5. Purposes of schooling
2.5.1. intellectual
2.5.2. political
2.5.3. social
2.5.4. economic
3. Equality of Opportunity
3.1. Horace Mann
3.2. Who shall receive the benefits of education?
3.2.1. class
3.2.2. race
3.2.3. gender
3.3. Women
3.3.1. today, less likely to drop out of school
3.3.2. more women are now attending post-secondary institutions than men
3.3.3. girls have caught up to boys in almost all measures of academic achievement
3.3.4. conservatives- "feminizing" of the classroom
3.4. Educational achievement and attainment
3.4.1. Females achieve at higher levels in reading at ages 9, 13, 17
3.4.2. higher levels of math at age 9 then lower levels at 13 and 17
3.4.3. lower levels in science at ages 9, 13, 17
3.5. School differences and educational outcomes
3.6. Coleman Study-1966
3.6.1. research- 3 rounds/ School differences DO make a difference in terms of student outcomes!!
4. Philosophy of Education
4.1. Realism
4.1.1. Aristotle
4.2. material world or matter is real
4.3. contemporary realists
4.4. possible to understand ideas through studying the world of matter
4.5. help individuals understand and then apply the principles to help solve the problems of the world
4.6. teachers should be steeped in the basic academic disciplines
4.7. should have a solid grounding in science, math, and the humanities
4.8. lecture; question and answer
4.9. curriculum consist of the basics: science and math, reading and writing, and the humanities
5. Curriculum and Pedagogy
5.1. Developmentalist curriculum
5.1.1. Needs of students instead of society
5.1.2. Dewey's writings
5.1.3. Teacher- facilitator of student growth
5.2. Neo-weberian conflict theory of Randall Collins
5.2.1. Define actions as necessary
5.3. Politics of the curriculum
5.3.1. Analyzes the struggles over different conceptions of what should be taught
5.4. Kliebard--Four different types of curriculum
5.4.1. Humanist
5.4.2. Social efficiency
5.4.3. Developmentalist
5.4.4. Social meliorist
5.5. Conflict perspective- illustrated through the debates over multicultural education
5.6. Stratification of the curriculum
5.6.1. Academic curriculum and a vocational or general curriculum
5.6.2. Ability grouping
6. Schools as Organizations
6.1. Tommy Bice-state superindentent
6.2. Ella B. Bell-representative on state school board
6.3. Bill Hopkins-local
6.4. Great Britain- before the 19th century, education was responsibility of the parents
6.5. education system-class stratified
6.6. eliminated the comprehensive secondary school
6.7. key curriculum has been narrowed
6.8. Arthur Orr-senator
7. History of U.S. Education
7.1. The Colonial Era
7.1.1. Materials
7.1.2. Personel
7.1.3. Services
7.1.4. Duration
7.2. Horace Mann
7.3. The Post-World War II Equity Era
7.3.1. educational opportunity
7.4. Plessy v. Ferguson
7.5. the Cardinal Principles
7.5.1. health
7.5.2. command of fundamental processes
7.5.3. worthy home-membership
7.5.4. vocation
7.5.5. citizenship
7.5.6. worthy use of leisure
7.5.7. ethical character
7.6. Education Reform
8. Sociology of Education
8.1. Functional theories
8.1.1. Emile Durkheim
8.1.2. A Nation at Risk
8.2. Teacher behavior
8.2.1. Schedule
8.2.2. Budget
8.3. Student peer group and Alienation
8.3.1. KPI's
8.4. Knowledge and Attitudes
8.5. Education and inequality
8.5.1. Gender
8.5.2. De facto segregation
8.6. Four levels of sociological analysis
8.6.1. Societal
8.6.2. Institutional
8.6.3. Interpersonal
8.6.4. Intrapsychic
9. Educational Inequality
9.1. Interactionist Theory
9.1.1. understand how people within interact in order to comprehend academic success and failures
9.2. Cultural Difference Theories
9.2.1. attribute cultural differences to social forces such as poverty, racism, discrimination, and unequal life chances
9.3. School Financing
9.3.1. Jonathan Kozol called for equalization in school financing
9.3.2. a lot of court cases
9.3.3. He compared public schools in suburbs with public schools in poor inner cities
9.4. Curriculum and Ability Grouping
9.4.1. within school differences
9.5. Serrano v. Priest
9.6. There are no simple explanations or solutions despite experts' claims
10. Educational Reform
10.1. School-to-work Programs
10.1.1. School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994- Pres. Bill Clinton
10.2. School Finance Reforms
10.3. No Child Left Behind
10.4. Federal involvement in education
10.4.1. In 1990, Pres. G.H.W. Bush announced 6 national goals for U.S. education
10.5. Effective Teachers
10.6. Race to the Top Fund
10.6.1. Pres. Barack Obama