Multiple and Competing Purposes
At a minimum, the thing every school should do, according to Emily Hanford.
What is teach children to read?
This is what public schools are increasingly becoming due to demographic shifts in the general population.
What is diverse?
He is considered the father of the Common School Movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
Concrete operational is one of the developmental stages he identified.
Who is Piaget?
There are two sets of these - one for learning and one for the teaching profession.
What are the New York State standards?
Because they provide hot meals and support children through difficult situations like domestic violence and homelessness, this is a key role for schools, according to Jessica Grose.
What is to care?
Approximately 15% of students are identified with one or more of these.
What are disabilities?
A school for assimilating Native American students that used violent tactics such as removing children from their families, forbidding the use of their home language and corporal punishment to "save" them.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
Curriculum should be both of these things - reflecting students' experiences and introducing them to new ideas.
What are a window and a mirror?
Because any student can study and move ahead in life, schools are a place to demonstrate this, according to Asra Q. Nomani.
What is merit?
About 32% of disabilities are these.
A landmark decision in 1954 that overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine and ended legally enforced school segregation.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
The true purpose of education, according to him, is for the oppressed to liberate themselves, as well as their oppressors.
Who is Paulo Freire?
What is the Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Framework?
Not educating children about history obscures this fundamental purpose of schooling, according to McGhee and Ray.
What is making American citizens?
These students may need particular support with learning English, feeling welcome and dealing with stressors such as threats of removal and food insecurity.
Who are immigrant students?
This was a major cause of school segregation in places such as New York City and Boston.
What is housing segregation?
According to him, the real task of education is to bridge students real life experience with what they are doing in school.
Who is Dewey?
Students of color are far more likely to experience this from both their teachers and school administration.
Because they mainly focus on credentialing and useless information that will be soon forgotten, according to Bryan Caplan.
What is schools are for wasting time and money?
These students are at much higher risk for depression and self-harm.
Who are LGBTQ students?
These parents tend to have an outsized influence on public schools.
According to this scholar, childhood is constructed through a cultural lens, so that what we perceive as "normal" development may be culturally biased.
Teachers committed to social justice should work both inside and outside of the classroom to dismantle inequity, according to this scholar.
Who is Bree Picower?