Goals of Public Schooling
4 years of English, 4 years of math (algebra 1 and 2, geometry and statistics)
What is the core curriculum?
* Name at least 2
War on Poverty
1950s-1980s
What was the problem Horace Man and later educational leaders faced?
Which moral values to teach in school
Definition: Investment in education will improve the quality of workers and increase the wealth of the community
Human Capital
What Act addresses "To ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education..."
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Expansion of highschools
1920s-1940s
What is one-course schools added to their curriculum to expansion social roles?
Answers may vary
Family and Consumer Sciences, Home economics, etc...
What is inadequate education directly linked to?
Poverty; War on Poverty
Who determines public goals and who influences them?
Elected representatives in local, state, and federal governments influenced by numerous interest groups.
Which bill did Thomas Jefferson pass in 1779?
Which Act gave Congress authority to federal funds to be provided to the states in the form of block grants to promote chastity until marriage?
Title V of the welfare-reform act of 1996
When did education inflation first appear?
"In the early 1970s when the labor market was flooded with college graduates, and scholars and doctorates were driving taxicabs and cooking in restaurants."