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Both teachers and student's rights are subject to due process as a result of this piece of legislation.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Teachers make thousands of decisions during a single day of teaching based on their professional knowledge including a set of beliefs and principles that guide their work.
What is philosophy?
This school administrative unit is defined by geographical boundaries and is legally responsible for the education of children within those boundaries.
What is a local school district?
The two largest sources of a state's income are generated by these taxes.
What are state income and sales taxes?
Tax-supported public elementary schools were firmly established as a cornerstone of our country's educational system as a result of this 19th century initiative.
what is the Common School Movement?
Local chapters of the American Federation of Teachers work for Michigan teachers by negotiating with school districts to ensure fair wages, benefits and working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
Mr. Johnson's ensembles are known for their outstanding performances of the classics. His curriculum is grounded in the musical traditions of Western Art Music and reflects fundamental beliefs about what - and how - his students should learn.
What is perennialism?
This individual is given the responsibility of overseeing all aspects of running a school. This is also a person who will have the most influence on your life as a teacher.
Who is the principal?
Taxes targeting tobacco, alcohol, and gambling, including state run lotteries, typically make up one third of a state's income.
What are "sin taxes"?
The motto, "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" was the rallying cry of educational zealots whose goal for Native Americans was achieved by forcing their children to attend boarding schools.
What is assimilation?
A choral concert incorporating several sacred pieces as the focal point for a spring concert titled Songs of Peace, Love, and Hope is challenged by one of the student's parents. However, the principal determines that it is within the teacher's rights to select concert repertoire.
What is academic freedom?
Axiology, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic are examples of different types of philosophical beliefs.
What are branches of philosophy?
This entity is responsible for the day to day implementation of state educational policies and is headed by the chief state school officer. Members almost always have a background in teaching and some may hold advanced degrees in education.
What is the State Office or Department of Education?
Differences in the financial well-being of a community can lead to inequities in educational funding.
What are local property taxes?
The formalized segregation of African Americans in education, transportation, and housing occurred following the Civil War and continued well into the 20th century when it was overturned by a famous watershed case in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
Courts rely on this principle in determining a teacher's or school's liability for failing to protect the children under their supervision.
What is "in loco parentis"?
Bennet Reimer's ideas about the educational value of music education reflect his belief that good music elicits "feelingful" responses in students which in turn support learning in the affective domain.
What is aesthetic education?
This legal governing body exercises general control and supervision of the schools in a state. This entity is responsible for issuing and revoking teaching licenses, establishing the length of the school year, publishing curriculum standards and setting both short and long term goals for education in the state.
What is the State Board of Education?
The federal government contributes to educational funding through grants that target specific programs or groups such as Title I and Head Start.
What are categorical grants?
Although states were assigned the responsibility of running and operating schools as a result of the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, the federal government's role in school funding occurred with this piece of legislation.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
Teachers' behaviors outside of school can be cause for dismissal if courts decide the behavior is controversial and public.
What is notoriety?
According to David Elliott students acquire deep musical understanding through the process of active and authentic music making.
What is the Praxial Philosophy of Music Education?
Creating and managing district school budgets, hiring and firing district workers (not just teachers), along with establishing student policies both in and out of school are under the purview of this entity.
What is a local school board.
Grants from the federal government with fewer restrictions were generated during the 1980s with the purpose of giving states and districts greater control over how educational these funds were spent.
What are block grants?
Federally funded programs such as Title I and Head Start are examples of how schools function as an instrument for national purpose and social change. Both programs, which provide supplemental instruction and attempt to prevent learning problems before they occur, were established in response to President Lyndon B. John's rallying cry of the 1960s.
What is the "War on Poverty"?