Categorias: Todos - reform - critical-thinking - education - curriculum

por Adelina Guadarrama 7 anos atrás

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Adelina Guadarrama Chapter 6

Compulsory education involves critical discussions about what schools should teach, including the impact of standards-based reform which emphasizes improving student achievement through standardized tests.

Adelina Guadarrama Chapter 6

Floating topic

Adelina Guadarrama Chapter 6

Compulsory Education

What Should Schools Teach?
Organization of Schools

5. public vs private schools

4. ethnic composition of schools

Effects of Desegregation and being in the Minority.

3. tracking or the groping of students in classes according to academic abilities

tracking: separating students into different levels of classes within the same school.

multicultural education calls for careful consideration when doing this to not make a student feel subordinate. (ex. low readers, high readers)

middle school, elementary, highschool

A lot more high school students are attending college; especially females

2. different approaches to age grouping

1. school and classroom size

schools within schools.

larger schools can offer a varied curriculum.

A topic of discussion. Standards based Reform: focuses on policies designed to improve achievement by holding students/school to a set of standards measured by achievement tests.
Critical Thinking
becomes a concern because some subjects like Critical Thinking do not appear on the standardized exams.
No Child Left Behind
schools need to create & enforce standards by annually testing and reporting results to the public.
a piece of legislation that mandates and ensures all students regardless of economic circumstance, academic proficiency, did not get left behind.
emerged from 20th century mostly due to industrialization, urbanization, and immigration.