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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
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What education philosopher that we studied described schooling as a failing business plan that we have held on to?
Who is Geoffrey Canada?
100
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)?
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
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?
200
This scholar argues that one of the reasons Americans love to reform schools is because "there is an old and persistent cultural strain in American history, derived from many sources, that seeks human perfection and sees education and schooling as essential to that perfectibility"?
Who is William Reese?
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. 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? 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?
300
This term refers to choosing the language variety appropriate to the context.
What is code-switching?
300
What policy provides temporary relief from deportation and work authorization to young undocumented immigrants?
What is What is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
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 EDFN300 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
The most recent name and iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
What is Every Student Succeeds Act?
400
These are the four types of curricula we discussed in class.
What are Formal curriculum, hidden curriculum, symbolic curriculum and media curriculum?
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
From the 1970s on, a cost-benefit analysis was done aiming to calculate the effectiveness of this?
What is pre-kindergarten?
500
What is the approach to justice that personalizes a crime by having the victims and the offenders mediate a restitution agreement to the satisfaction of each as well as involving the broader community?
What is restorative justice?
500
This Act strove to have all children proficient in core academic areas by 2014.
What is NCLB? Bonus.
500
Nel Noddings' four forms of continuity include: continuity of place, purpose, curriculum, and ______?
What is "people"?
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
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)?