Influential People
Who wrote the famous federal document A Nation At Risk?
Who is Terrell (Ted) Bell?
Famous Federal document about the U.S school system failing
what is A Nation At Risk?
provides leadership and research in the conduct and support of scientific inquiry into the educational process
What is The National Institute of Education?
The founder was Wendy Kopp. Often referred to as a sort of the next step in school reform
Teach for America
The superintendent that proposed a merit pay system in which every teacher would be graded according to their students' standardized test scores
Who is William Coats?
A raise in pay based on a students test scores/achievements
What is merit pay?
Created by Kati Haycock
progressive advocacy group believed that education and better teachers could effectively fight poverty
- believed teachers of poor children should have majors in the subjects they taught
What is Education Trust?
Was known for making the achievement gap visible on a national scale for the first time
- did not focused on individual teachers but on schools
What is No Child Left Behind?
This person did not agree with merit pay for specific teachers or longer school days. Promoted the idea of charter schools
Who was Al Shanker?
Relied heavily on standardized test scores to evaluate students, teachers, and school systems
What is Teacher Accountability Movement?
Al Shanker was president, embraced the concept from A Nation At Risk that schools were failing
What is the American Federation of Teachers?
helped states and communities establish a framework for comprehensive, standards-based education reform for all students.
Improving America's School Act and Goals
Appointed Terrel Bell as secretary of education. Promised to end the federal government's expensive interventions on behalf of disadvantaged minority groups
Who is President Ronald Regan?
A Texas school faked dropout rates as well as creating specific education designation to not affect the school's scores
What is "Texas Miracle"?
Founded by Jimmy Carter
- the federal department run by the secretary of education
What is the Department of Education?
(2001-present) concentrated on raising the levels of test scores of low- income, minority students in an orderly setting, had strict behavior and academic expectations
What is "No excuse" charter school movement?
Wrote the expose called "Why Teachers Can't Teach" in 1980 which was published in Texas Monthly. Revealed that teachers in urban Houston and Dallas scored lower on standardized testing than the average sixteen-year-old
Who is Gene Lyons?
Teaching to what is only on the standardized test to make sure the school gets a good evalution
What is "teaching to the test"?
-largest teacher labor union in the United States
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What is the National Education Association?
seeks to break the cycle of failure with thoroughly researched proven-to-work programs
What is Success For All?