1. Education and Inequality
1.1. Cultural Deprviaton and you
1.1.1. Cultural Deprivation theory addresses the idea that school achievement is much more that economic, but produces a cultural capital. That Capital is the ability to have unmarketable skills which allow the individual to move forward in society. These skills are things like dress, speech, and understanding of cultural hierarchy. It goes on to explain that people who are the working class are promoted to be workers and thus are not taught these skills, or are taught to devalue these skill in favor of a trade.
1.2. What are ways in which schools are responsible for inequality?
1.2.1. School Financing. Schools that do not have high property tax yields do not have the same level of funding as their counter parts and therefore less opportunities.
1.2.1.1. Effective Research. Schools have to conduct data collecting efforts into themselves to address issues inside their ranks. This method of data collection can be perverted by misinformation and biased expectations.
1.2.1.1.1. Curriculum and Pedagogic Practices. Differences between teaching styles and approaches can effect performance. This is also an issue when it come to active community and teacher involvement.
2. Education Reform
2.1. School changes
2.1.1. Privitatzation.
2.1.1.1. This concept of reform is to allow private industry the access to the school. Mostly this method has not been used long enough to see quantitative data on its effectiveness, however, companies seem interested and therefore are planning to move forward with future projects.
2.1.2. Teacher Education
2.1.2.1. This idea spans the need for school systems to attract better and more hard working teachers to the classroom. This is implemented by raising trading standards and to get teacher more involved in their teaching.
2.2. Other reforms
2.2.1. The book labels several other reforms including community involvement, student centered learning, school organized for student an teacher learning and many more .
3. What is the Goal of Education?
3.1. Social Position
3.1.1. Education should serve to groom students to help grown and change their society.
3.2. Economic Position
3.2.1. Education should prepare people for the work force.
3.3. Intellectual Position
3.3.1. Education should serve to create bright thinkers and academics that think critically about the world.
3.4. Nationalist Position
3.4.1. Education should serve to promote nation tradition and patriotism.
3.5. Role of the school?
3.5.1. The role of the school is to dispense one of the fore mentioned stances. The school should help students become a force of change in the school, prepare of a future in the work force, gain academic, and to pass on the traditions and social norms of the home land.
4. Where did history being in the U.S?
4.1. Eduation for all and not for the few!
4.2. Focus America!
4.2.1. Among other movements the most important movement in the history of education is the realization that the population has right and need to free public education. We can see this moment starting in the U.S with the Puritan prep school of the early colonial North-East. Then though decision was made to condition the youth for a harsh religious society, it was still a milestone for public education and the echo of this moment was still seen in the modern and then progressive reforms that would follow.
4.2.2. We really see this idea catch on fire in the late 19th century. The industrial revolution was in full swing in the U.S and now that children were no longer needed to work fields the want and need to see an educated youth was in high demand. This would eventually lead into the modern school systems that we have today which came into play after the second world war.
5. School and People (The relationship)
5.1. Conflict Theory
5.1.1. Imagined by Karl Marx, Conflict Theory said clams that society is controlled by the competition of resources. This is a negative view on society that relates back to the elites mainting an environments were people stay at ends to maintain power.
5.2. interactionism
5.2.1. Interationsim is the idea that stress the important in the relationship between teachers and students. The idea is the the performance the teacher feeds the students was well as the inverse.
5.3. Functionalism
5.3.1. Functionalism is a return to basics in phylosipy in which the agrument is made that multiple things feed into the subject in question. I should be noted that this relates to the classroom by a taking notice that education is a keystone for many other aspects of society and that society in turn effects edcuation
5.4. What can school do for you?
5.4.1. Employment!!!
5.4.1.1. School has a duty to train students for the positions they look to fill.
5.4.2. Peer Groups
5.4.2.1. School plays a great role in establishing relationships between students. Giving some connection to help with employment and other chances for social interactions that they may lack at home.
5.4.3. Equality
5.4.3.1. Schools can serve to both end and facilitate inequalities by either conditioning students to live without it,, or aiding in enforcing it.
5.4.3.2. Tracking
5.4.3.2.1. Another job for the pubic is tracking, or gauging where in future education students fit. These are also use to judge what jobs students will feel comfortable in.
5.4.3.2.2. Genders
6. Schools as organizations
6.1. Alabama Stakeholders
6.1.1. State Senator Paul Bussman(R)
6.1.2. State Represenative Robert Aderholt (R)
6.1.3. District 7 Board member Jefferey Newman
6.2. Local area
6.2.1. Superintendent Johnny Yates and board members Christine Garner, Gary Bradford, Beth Vinson, Shannon Terry, and Reta Waldrep
6.3. What brings about change in school culture
6.3.1. Four things bring about change in the culture of school. These four things are conflicts, new behaviors, team dynamic, and the relationship between process and content. Conflict acts as the wind in the sails of all of the other actions. New behavior arise as a result of the conflict, sometimes from student to student conflict and others time between the administration and student conflict. Team dynamic is the result of the evolution between new behavior and conflict as students, teacher, and administers must learn to act within themselves to deal with the for mentioned issues. Finally, all issue must relate back to the content.
7. Curriculum
7.1. My oppinon on curriculum
7.1.1. I personally identify as philosophically fluid. I do not worry myself with the identification of one specific school of though, but cause I believe that it is far too limiting. The best form of curriculum is a curriculum that is fluid and changes to best match the need of the educated and educators. Furthermore, I believe that all concepts should be broken down constructively and the useful of all be used and the dangerous of observed in caution.
7.2. Two dominate schools of teaching
7.2.1. Mimetic tradition
7.2.1.1. The Mimetic tradition centers around traditional transeres of knowelege. They focus more on the need for teachers to teacher the student information and the student to learn
7.2.2. Progressive model
7.2.2.1. The Progressive model or transformative model. This model powerless students to join into the teaching lesson by viewing them as a growing part of this method rather than a receiving end the relationship.
8. Equality of Opportunity
8.1. Does what your are effect education?
8.1.1. Yes. Class, race, religion, and other identities effects educations in numerous ways. The dominate ways is what your culture desires you to learn. Although this may feature more in race and religion than class, this is the diving force behind many public debates and reforms. Questions such as: "Do we pray in school?", or "Is separate equal" are huge head liners, however, they my also feature in themes and issues such as "Do we always use christian literature when teaching or should we use Arabic stories as well?", or "How inclusive are the 'Key people' within this lesson's citations? Are they all white men, or do we see diversity?"
8.2. The Coleman Study
8.2.1. The Coleman Study has an huge result on the civil rights when it came to education in the United States. For the first time people saw data showing that public school systems where not up to par with private school systems. It reinforced the idea that it is the school not the parent who play a role in the success of the student, a claim was dismissed as groundless until this study.