Adelina Guadarrama Chapter 6
Compulsory Education
emerged from 20th century mostly due to industrialization, urbanization, and immigration.
No Child Left Behind
a piece of legislation that mandates and ensures all students regardless of economic circumstance, academic proficiency, did not get left behind.
schools need to create & enforce standards by annually testing and reporting results to the public.
Critical Thinking
becomes a concern because some subjects like Critical Thinking do not appear on the standardized exams.
What Should Schools Teach?
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.
Organization of Schools
1. school and classroom size
larger schools can offer a varied curriculum.
schools within schools.
2. different approaches to age grouping
3. tracking or the groping of students in classes according to academic abilities
middle school, elementary, highschool
A lot more high school students are attending college; especially females
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)
4. ethnic composition of schools
Effects of Desegregation and being in the Minority.
5. public vs private schools