CH. 5 What are some trends in funding for equity and excellence?
"Teacher candidates are able to foster relationships with school colleagues, parents, and families, and agencies in the larger community to support students' learning and well being." NCATE
States contribute nearly 50% of the resources needed to operate the public schools.
CH. 6
What is standards-based education?
"Education is controversial. Arguments over the most appropriate aims, the most propitious means, and the most effective control have raged over the centures." James William Noll
In education, standards represent the criteria students must meet to receive a grade of A, to be prmoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
Question: How is the privatization movement changing school governance?
Quote: "There are two broad areas of responsibility (for teachers). One involves participation in collaborative efforts to improve the effectiveness of the school. The second entails engaging parents and others in the community in the education of young people."
Fact: When the St. Paul City Academy opened its doors in September 1992, it became the nation's first charter school.
Chp. 2
Question: How does the federal government influence education?
Quote: "Our children's future is more important than a few pennies per child in federal funding accompanied by dictates. Now is no time to turn control of our reforms over to federal bureaucrats and politicians."
Fact: In 1979 President Carter signed a law creating the Department of Education.
Chapter 5 Q: Why is school choice is available if it is such a huge issue? F: Total expenditures for the public elementary and secondary schools in 2000-01 were $454.1 billion dollars and the total expenditure per pupil was $7,524. Q: The money that a state gives to its cities and towns is known as state aid. Chapter 6 Q: How would national standards help even out the playing field for students? F: Test besting helps students of families living in poverty and students whose first language is not English. Q: Their expectations for student performance and behavior at the classroom level are at the heart of higher standards.
Ch. 5 Question: what are some of the building conditions in the United States? Fact: The education rate program distributes about $2.25 billion a year to the schools. Quote: "rather than one national education system, there are fifty state systems that raise revenues from local, state, and federal sources."
Ch. 6 Question: What are some of the perspectives on standards? Fact: As a mobile society, the Untied States needs common educational standards so that children from one area will not fall behind when they move to another. Quote: "Teachers and teacher candidates have student learning as the focus of their work."
Chapter 5 What are some trends in funding for equity and excellence?
One challenge to financing schools has been the development of an equitable means of taxation for the support of education.
"it is conceivable that by 2020 as many as a quarter of all students could be enrolled in some school of choice, whether private or public."
Chapter 6 What is standards-based education?
In 2002 Pennsylvannia began requiring experienced teachers to take the Professional Development Assistance Program Tests developed by Educational Testing Service.
"One could argue that AYP test are designed not to help students,teachers,or schools but to catch them.It's a gotcha game, not a process to improve education."
Chap 5 Quote Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary school in 2000-2001 were $451.1 billion - National Center for Education Statistics
Fact According to the 2001 poll, 60% of the publicbelieved the amount of money spent on public schools in their state differs from school district to school district "a great deal" or "quite a lot"
Question What are some trends in funding for equity and excellence?
Chap 6 Quote the educational divide [between African Americans and Hispanic students and white students] is caused by the soft bigotry of low expectations- George W. Bush
Fact Nationwide, highstakes tests are being used increasingly to determine whether a student can participate in extracurricular activities or graduate or whether teachers and administrators are given merit pay increases.
Chapter 5: Question:How are schools financed in the United States? Quote:"All people want to maximize their benefits from education while reducing their personal costs...The ideal situation for an individual would be an educational system that increased the individual's political power and economic benefits at a cost being paid by other people." -Joel Spring Fact:A combination of revenues from local,state and federal sources is used to finance public elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
Chapter 6 Question: What role will standards play in your classroom? Quote:"Education is controversial. Arguements over the most appropriate aims, the most propitious means, and the most effective control have raged over the centuries." -James William Noll Fact:Standards represent the criteria students must meet to recieve a grade of A, to be promoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
Chapter 5 Q: What is the condition of U.S. school buildings?
Q: "All people want to maximize their benefits from education while reducing their personal costs...[T]he ideal situation for an individula would be an educational system that increased the individual's political power and economic benefits at a cost being paid by other people."
F: One approach to provideing educational equity that has generated considerable controverst is the voucher system of distributing educational funds. According to voucher plans, parents would be given government funded vouchers to purchase eduational services at the schools of their choice.
Chapter 6 Q:How are high-stakes tests changing education?
Q:"Edcation is controversial. Arguments over the most appropriate aims, the most propitious means, and the most effective control have raged over the centuries."
F: At the conclusion of th 2003-04 school year, several states withheld thousands of diplomas. (for low test scores)
Question: What is the condition of the U.S. school buildings?
Quote: "Educational and financial equity have changed significantly over the years. The window of opportunity to continue improving educational opportunities and performances for the success of all children is likely more open now than ever before."
Fact: Teachers comprise about 60 to 80 percent of total staff in many other countries; in the United States, teachers comprise more than 40 percent.
Ch. 6
Question: Will higher standards improve education?
Quote: "Every society faces not merely a succession of probable futures, but an array of possible futures, and a conflict over preferable futures. The management of change is the effort to convert certain possibles into probables, in pursuit of agreed-on preferables."
Fact: At the conclusion of 2003-04 school year, several states withheld thousands of diplomas.
Fact: One of the most bitter struggles for control of schools in the United States is centered around school choice. Quote: "Since poor parents lack the supplemental resources that rich people have for helping their children, some opponents argue that school choice would not help to equalize educational opportunities." Question: Who decides where the income comes from in school districts?
Question: What is the Lemon test? Quote: “Behaving ethically is more than a matter of following the rules or not breaking the law—it means acting in a way that promotes the learning and growth of students and helps them realize their potential.” Fact: One-third (35%) of students who have been harassed report that they first experienced it in elementary school.
Question: What is world standards? I understnd the need to compare test scores between countries but isn't this comparing apples and oranges? Fact Cost per pupil $7,524.00 Quote:According to the Gallop Poll of the public 's attitudes toward the public schools, "lack of financial suppor/funding/money" was seen as the number one problem confronting local schools.
Chapter 5 Question:How are schools financed in the United States? Quote: "Educational and financial equity have changed significantly over the years. The window of opportunity to continue improving educational opportunities and performances for the success of all children is likely more open now than ever before." Fact: The education rate program distributes about $2.25 billion a year to the schools.
Chapter 6
Question:How would national standards help even out the playing field for students? Quote: "Since poor parents lack the supplemental resources that rich people have for helping their children, some opponents argue that school choice would not help to equalize educational opportunities." Fact:Standards represent the criteria students must meet to recieve a grade of A, to be promoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
Chapter 5: Total expendature per pupil was $7524.00 yet further into the chapter it is stated that the per pupil expendature can range anywhere from $1500.00 to 15,000.00 per pupil...When people see the average expendature it never dawns on them that some of the pupils are at the $1500.00 range so they wonder where the problem is. How are we to convince Americans, other than those living the statistics, that there is a problem when the "average" does not reflect a problem?
Horace Mann Quote...it's too long to type all of it, it appears on page 156. A free school system knows no distincetion of rich and poor...that their injustice may depart from them and be known no more.
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future found that many other countries tend ot invest more resources that the US in hiring teachers. Teachers comprise 60 to 80 percent of total staff in other countries; in the US teachers comprise slightly more than 40 percent.
Chapter 6: Why not use computer-adaptve online testing systems in all schools? They are state-of-the-art technology therefore every school would have the same chance for success. Two problems solved in one!!
Higher standards will not improve education!
"We are moving in this country from a local to a national view of education and we need better arrangements to guide the way." Ernest Boyer.
ch. 5 question- What are some trends in funding for equity and excellence? fact- The education rate program distributes about $2.25 billion a year to the schools. quote- "Teacher candidates are able to foster relationships with school colleagues, parents, and families, and agencies in the larger community to support students' learning and well being."
ch.6 question- Will higher standards improve education? fact- In 2002 Pennsylvannia began requiring experienced teachers to take the Professional Development Assistance Program Tests developed by Educational Testing Service. quote- "We are moving in this country from a local to a national view of education and we need better arrangements to guide the way."
chpt 5 quote: school districts have become big business operations question: in the Serranous Priest case, when saying "to provide equal protection" what are they comparing themselves to? fact: a survey of Fortune 500 and Service 500 companies found that78% contributed money to education, 64% contributed material or equipment, 26% offered teacher summer employment, and 12% provided excutives-on-loan to schools
chpt 6 question: if standards results come back overall for a school, does that force it to close? then what happens to those students that clearly need educated? fact: test score gains attributed to the standards movement do not reflect "real" gains in the knowledge and skills the tests were designed to measure quote: by ensuring that every student in ore schools can enjoy a free, nutritious breakfast, we are supporting teaching and learning in our classrooms
chapter 5 question: do all students have equal access to technology? Quote:"all people want to maximize their benefits from education while reducing their personal costs...the ideal situation for an individual would be an educational system that increased the individual's political power and economic benefits at a cost being paid by other people" Joel Spring Fact: State revenues include both direct fund from state governments and revenues in lieu of taxation. Chapter 6 Question: what does the future hold for you as a teacher? Quote:"during the next five years, the percentage of students scoring above the norm will increase by at least two percent each year." Fact: in education standards represent the criteria students must meet to recieve a grade of A, to be promoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
Misty Roe Chapters 5 & 6 Fact-School choice is the practice of allowing parents to choose the schools their children attend. Quote-If we had a system of free choice we would also have a system of competition, innovation, which would change the character of education....Reform has to come through competition from the outside, and the only way you can get competition is by making is possible for parents to have the ability to choose" (Friedman). Question-Do you feel like there is a good future in becoming a teacher?
CH. 5
ReplyDeleteWhat are some trends in funding for equity and excellence?
"Teacher candidates are able to foster relationships with school colleagues, parents, and families, and agencies in the larger community to support students' learning and well being."
NCATE
States contribute nearly 50% of the resources needed to operate the public schools.
CH. 6
What is standards-based education?
"Education is controversial. Arguments over the most appropriate aims, the most propitious means, and the most effective control have raged over the centures."
James William Noll
In education, standards represent the criteria students must meet to receive a grade of A, to be prmoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
Lindsay Meyers
ReplyDeleteChp. 1
Question: How is the privatization movement changing school governance?
Quote: "There are two broad areas of responsibility (for teachers). One involves participation in collaborative efforts to improve the effectiveness of the school. The second entails engaging parents and others in the community in the education of young people."
Fact: When the St. Paul City Academy opened its doors in September 1992, it became the nation's first charter school.
Chp. 2
Question: How does the federal government influence education?
Quote: "Our children's future is more important than a few pennies per child in federal funding accompanied by dictates. Now is no time to turn control of our reforms over to federal bureaucrats and politicians."
Fact: In 1979 President Carter signed a law creating the Department of Education.
Chapter 5
ReplyDeleteQ: Why is school choice is available if it is such a huge issue?
F: Total expenditures for the public elementary and secondary schools in 2000-01 were $454.1 billion dollars and the total expenditure per pupil was $7,524.
Q: The money that a state gives to its cities and towns is known as state aid.
Chapter 6
Q: How would national standards help even out the playing field for students?
F: Test besting helps students of families living in poverty and students whose first language is not English.
Q: Their expectations for student performance and behavior at the classroom level are at the heart of higher standards.
Ch. 5
ReplyDeleteQuestion: what are some of the building conditions in the United States?
Fact: The education rate program distributes about $2.25 billion a year to the schools.
Quote: "rather than one national education system, there are fifty state systems that raise revenues from local, state, and federal sources."
Ch. 6
Question: What are some of the perspectives on standards?
Fact: As a mobile society, the Untied States needs common educational standards so that children from one area will not fall behind when they move to another.
Quote: "Teachers and teacher candidates have student learning as the focus of their work."
Chapter 5
ReplyDeleteWhat are some trends in funding for equity and excellence?
One challenge to financing schools has been the development of an equitable means of taxation for the support of education.
"it is conceivable that by 2020 as many as a quarter of all students could be enrolled in some school of choice, whether private or public."
Chapter 6
What is standards-based education?
In 2002 Pennsylvannia began requiring experienced teachers to take the Professional Development Assistance Program Tests developed by Educational Testing Service.
"One could argue that AYP test are designed not to help students,teachers,or schools but to catch them.It's a gotcha game, not a process to improve education."
Chap 5
ReplyDeleteQuote Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary school in 2000-2001 were $451.1 billion - National Center for Education Statistics
Fact According to the 2001 poll, 60% of the publicbelieved the amount of money spent on public schools in their state differs from school district to school district "a great deal" or "quite a lot"
Question What are some trends in funding for equity and excellence?
Chap 6
Quote the educational divide [between African Americans and Hispanic students and white students] is caused by the soft bigotry of low expectations- George W. Bush
Fact Nationwide, highstakes tests are being used increasingly to determine whether a student can participate in extracurricular activities or graduate or whether teachers and administrators are given merit pay increases.
Question What is standards based education?
Chapter 5:
ReplyDeleteQuestion:How are schools financed in the United States?
Quote:"All people want to maximize their benefits from education while reducing their personal costs...The ideal situation for an individual would be an educational system that increased the individual's political power and economic benefits at a cost being paid by other people." -Joel Spring
Fact:A combination of revenues from local,state and federal sources is used to finance public elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
Chapter 6
Question: What role will standards play in your classroom?
Quote:"Education is controversial. Arguements over the most appropriate aims, the most propitious means, and the most effective control have raged over the centuries." -James William Noll
Fact:Standards represent the criteria students must meet to recieve a grade of A, to be promoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
ch 5:
ReplyDeleteHow do schools in other nations spending on resources for schools compare to the United States?
" To kep excellent teachers at our most challenging schools across the land." Jane Butters
Many school buildings in the United States are over crowded, deteriorating, and out-of-date.
ch 6:
What are performance standards used to assess?
"Teachers and teacher candidates have student learning as the focus of their work." NCATE
A controversial approach to holding teachers accountable for students' learining is to teachers' knowledge and skills.
Chapter 5
ReplyDeleteQ: What is the condition of U.S. school buildings?
Q: "All people want to maximize their benefits from education while reducing their personal costs...[T]he ideal situation for an individula would be an educational system that increased the individual's political power and economic benefits at a cost being paid by other people."
F: One approach to provideing educational equity that has generated considerable controverst is the voucher system of distributing educational funds. According to voucher plans, parents would be given government funded vouchers to purchase eduational services at the schools of their choice.
Chapter 6
Q:How are high-stakes tests changing education?
Q:"Edcation is controversial. Arguments over the most appropriate aims, the most propitious means, and the most effective control have raged over the centuries."
F: At the conclusion of th 2003-04 school year, several states withheld thousands of diplomas. (for low test scores)
Lindsay Meyers' Posts:
ReplyDeleteCh. 5
Question: What is the condition of the U.S. school buildings?
Quote: "Educational and financial equity have changed significantly over the years. The window of opportunity to continue improving educational opportunities and performances for the success of all children is likely more open now than ever before."
Fact: Teachers comprise about 60 to 80 percent of total staff in many other countries; in the United States, teachers comprise more than 40 percent.
Ch. 6
Question: Will higher standards improve education?
Quote: "Every society faces not merely a succession of probable futures, but an array of possible futures, and a conflict over preferable futures. The management of change is the effort to convert certain possibles into probables, in pursuit of agreed-on preferables."
Fact: At the conclusion of 2003-04 school year, several states withheld thousands of diplomas.
Fact: One of the most bitter struggles for control of schools in the United States is centered around school choice.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Since poor parents lack the supplemental resources that rich people have for helping their children, some opponents argue that school choice would not help to equalize educational opportunities."
Question: Who decides where the income comes from in school districts?
Question: What is the Lemon test?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Behaving ethically is more than a matter of following the rules or not breaking the law—it means acting in a way that promotes the learning and growth of students and helps them realize their potential.”
Fact: One-third (35%) of students who have been harassed report that they first experienced it in elementary school.
Question: What is world standards? I understnd the need to compare test scores between countries but isn't this comparing apples and oranges?
ReplyDeleteFact Cost per pupil $7,524.00
Quote:According to the Gallop Poll of the public
's attitudes toward the public schools, "lack of financial suppor/funding/money" was seen as the number one problem confronting local schools.
Chapter 5
ReplyDeleteQuestion:How are schools financed in the United States?
Quote: "Educational and financial equity have changed significantly over the years. The window of opportunity to continue improving educational opportunities and performances for the success of all children is likely more open now than ever before."
Fact: The education rate program distributes about $2.25 billion a year to the schools.
Chapter 6
Question:How would national standards help even out the playing field for students?
Quote: "Since poor parents lack the supplemental resources that rich people have for helping their children, some opponents argue that school choice would not help to equalize educational opportunities."
Fact:Standards represent the criteria students must meet to recieve a grade of A, to be promoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
Chapter 5:
ReplyDeleteTotal expendature per pupil was $7524.00 yet further into the chapter it is stated that the per pupil expendature can range anywhere from $1500.00 to 15,000.00 per pupil...When people see the average expendature it never dawns on them that some of the pupils are at the $1500.00 range so they wonder where the problem is. How are we to convince Americans, other than those living the statistics, that there is a problem when the "average" does not reflect a problem?
Horace Mann Quote...it's too long to type all of it, it appears on page 156.
A free school system knows no distincetion of rich and poor...that their injustice may depart from them and be known no more.
The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future found that many other countries tend ot invest more resources that the US in hiring teachers. Teachers comprise 60 to 80 percent of total staff in other countries; in the US teachers comprise slightly more than 40 percent.
Chapter 6:
Why not use computer-adaptve online testing systems in all schools? They are state-of-the-art technology therefore every school would have the same chance for success. Two problems solved in one!!
Higher standards will not improve education!
"We are moving in this country from a local to a national view of education and we need better arrangements to guide the way."
Ernest Boyer.
ch. 5
ReplyDeletequestion- What are some trends in funding for equity and excellence?
fact- The education rate program distributes about $2.25 billion a year to the schools.
quote- "Teacher candidates are able to foster relationships with school colleagues, parents, and families, and agencies in the larger community to support students' learning and well being."
ch.6
question- Will higher standards improve education?
fact- In 2002 Pennsylvannia began requiring experienced teachers to take the Professional Development Assistance Program Tests developed by Educational Testing Service.
quote- "We are moving in this country from a local to a national view of education and we need better arrangements to guide the way."
chpt 5
ReplyDeletequote: school districts have become big business operations
question: in the Serranous Priest case, when saying "to provide equal protection" what are they comparing themselves to?
fact: a survey of Fortune 500 and Service 500 companies found that78% contributed money to education, 64% contributed material or equipment, 26% offered teacher summer employment, and 12% provided excutives-on-loan to schools
chpt 6
question: if standards results come back overall for a school, does that force it to close? then what happens to those students that clearly need educated?
fact: test score gains attributed to the standards movement do not reflect "real" gains in the knowledge and skills the tests were designed to measure
quote: by ensuring that every student in ore schools can enjoy a free, nutritious breakfast, we are supporting teaching and learning in our classrooms
chapter 5
ReplyDeletequestion: do all students have equal access to technology?
Quote:"all people want to maximize their benefits from education while reducing their personal costs...the ideal situation for an individual would be an educational system that increased the individual's political power and economic benefits at a cost being paid by other people" Joel Spring
Fact: State revenues include both direct fund from state governments and revenues in lieu of taxation.
Chapter 6
Question: what does the future hold for you as a teacher?
Quote:"during the next five years, the percentage of students scoring above the norm will increase by at least two percent each year."
Fact: in education standards represent the criteria students must meet to recieve a grade of A, to be promoted to the next grade, or to graduate from elementary or high school.
Misty Roe
ReplyDeleteChapters 5 & 6
Fact-School choice is the practice of allowing parents to choose the schools their children attend.
Quote-If we had a system of free choice we would also have a system of competition, innovation, which would change the character of education....Reform has to come through competition from the outside, and the only way you can get competition is by making is possible for parents to have the ability to choose" (Friedman).
Question-Do you feel like there is a good future in becoming a teacher?