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Big ideas! Philosophers, Historians & Anthropologists of Education
Radical Reforms?
Wrapping my mind around that concept
"Court"-ing education
Money, money, money
100
The idea that there are enduring (and taken-for-granted) aspects of the way we do school that are deeply imbedded and work against the taking up of quick reform.
What is "grammar of schooling"?
100
What reform was able to "stick" through a perfect storm of evidence, piggybacking upon a successful initiative, and neurological research?
What is the arts integration reform?
100
Ken Robinson describes the deep ways we organize schools and expect them to work this way.
What is "cultural gene pool" of education? Bonus.
100
This U.S. Supreme Court case decision prohibited segregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Ed? Bonus.
100
Charter schools will be provided funding for everything but this (typically) in order to provide public education.
What is a building?
200
This scholar fiercely argues that teachers should work and be considered as "transformative intellectuals"?
Who is Henry Giroux?
200
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"?
200
This adjective is tightly associated with the purported rationale and benefit of charter schools?
What is innovative (or choice, competition)? Bonus.
200
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.?
200
The name of influential research based on the longitudinal results of a high quality, wrap-around pre-k approach in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
What is Perry Pre-school research? Bonus.
300
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"? Bonus.
300
This reform emphasizes the idea that public school curriculum should be characterized by being "college and career ready."
What is Common Core/R2T?
300
This term, which involved the word "gap," refers to a particular difference between NAEP and state-accountability scores.
What is "proficiency gap"?
300
In this U.S. Supreme Court decision, the judges found that there is "no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers, and curriculum; for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education."
What is Lau v. Nichols?
300
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 EDFI 300 class.
What is equity? Bonus.
400
This Brazilian philosopher of education is best known for his "banking" concept of education.
Who is Paolo Freire?
400
This country is doing away with the traditional division of school day into subjects.
What is Finland? Bonus.
400
This concept refers to "the historically accumulated and culturally developed bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household and individual functioning and well-being.”
What is Funds of Knowledge? Bonus.
400
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)?
400
In their support of UPK, select economists, like Heckman, argue that if you do this, it will reveal that UPK is a wise budgetary decision.
What is "cost-benefit analysis"?
500
This philosopher concentrates her work on happiness and schooling, explores notions of democratic schooling, and wrote, "We risk losing what might be called...a democracy that respects every form of honest work, includes people from every economic and social class, and cultivates a deep understanding of interdependence"
Who is Nell Noddings?
500
This Act strove to have all children proficient in core academic areas by 2014 and then was reauthorized under this name in 2016.
What is NCLB reauthorized as ESSA?
500
This concept refers to the "unwritten, unofficial, and often unintended lessons, values, and perspectives that students learn in school."
What is "hidden curriculum"?
500
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)?
500
Under NCLB, teacher bonuses were increasingly being tied to this reform, which called 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)?