Big ideas! Philosophers, Historians & Anthropologists of Education
What education scholar whom we studied described schooling as a failing business plan that we have held on to?
Who is Geoffrey Canada?
What school reform is defined as an initiative in the US that details what K-12 students should know in ELA and Math at the end of each grade level?
What is Common Core State Standards (CCSS)?
South Carolina has emerged as the epicenter of this reform where students will study in school for half the day and then work, learning hands-on skills, at a factory or business for the rest of the day.
What are apprenticeships?
This U.S. Supreme Court case decision prohibited segregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Ed?
This term refers to a publicly-funded, independent school operating under a "contract" between the school and its authorizing agency.
What is a charter school?
This historian of education outlined several critiques of the Common Core State Standards including their over-reliance on testing, high costs, and inability for reform.
Who is Diane Ravitch?
This reform calls for schools to separate students who have particular English-language learning needs from native English speakers in order to educate them together for most of their core academic subjects.
What is "school within a school"?
This adjective is tightly associated with the purported rationale and benefit of charter schools?
What is innovation/choice/competition?
The name of the longest court battle in the history of the state of South Carolina that found the state was not upholding citizens' rights to a minimally adequate public education.
What is Abbeville v. the State of S.C.?
The name of influential research based on the longitudinal results of a high quality, wrap-around pre-k approach in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The research revealed, in part, that providing high-quality pre-k yielded a higher tax return and higher salaries for those involved.
What is Perry Pre-school research?
Not offering a Spanish-language class to help develop the L1 skills of Spanish-speaking students would be an example of what (hint--Angela Valenzuela)?
What is "subtractive schooling"?
This reform emphasizes the idea that public school curriculum should be characterized by being "college and career ready."
What is Common Core?
The members of this body are elected by the general public and responsible for school buildings, financial stewardship, and teacher bonuses among other things.
What is the School Board? Bonus.
In this SCOTUS case, the majority ruled that relying on local property taxes is not an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.
What is San Antonio v. Rodriguez (1973)?
The idea that districts and schools will pay more per pupil if that student has particular needs is an example of this core organizing concept of our EDFN300 class.
What is equity?
This philosopher of education advocates for intellectual rigor for vocational education.
Who is Nell Noddings?
The most recent name and iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
What is Every Student Succeeds Act?
This state, north of Texas, had not only massive teacher protests, but also a remarkable number of teachers running for public office.
What is Oklahoma?
In this U.S. Supreme Court case, the judges decided that all children regardless of their legal status have a right to elementary and secondary schooling in the U.S.
What is Plyler v. Doe (1982)?
From the 1970s on, a cost-benefit analysis was done aiming to calculate the effectiveness of this?
What is pre-kindergarten?
Richard Ruiz proposed a three-prong model for understanding orientations toward language. What are these three prongs?
What are language as a problem, languages as a right, and language as a resource?
This Act strove to have all children proficient in core academic areas by 2014.
What is NCLB?
Nel Noddings' four forms of continuity include: continuity of place, purpose, curriculum, and ______?
What is "people"?
This South Carolina District Court case was the first to challenge "separate, but equal" schooling and eventually became one of 5 cases to constitute the Brown v. Board of Ed SCOTUS case.
What is Briggs v. Elliott (1952)?
Teacher bonuses are increasingly being tied to this reform, which calls for teacher evaluation/quality to be measured by comparing the current test scores of his/her students to the scores of those same students in the previous school year.
What is value-added measure (VAM)?