CH.1 Why do you need to understand educational politics?
"The teacher acts as an advocate for students." INTASC
To open a charter school,an original charter is signed by the school's founders and a sponsor. Charter schools are independent,innovative,outcome-based ,public schools.
CH. 2 How does the federal government influence education?
"Poor performance will no longer be hidden. Results will no longer be kept from parents. We will continue to work with schools that are performing poorly. Assessment results will be used to guide decisions,target resources, and reward success." George W. Bush
North Carolina has created a 23-member Textbook Commission made up of teachers, principals, parents, and a local superintendent.
Question: What is the privatization movement? Quote: “…it is difficult to untangle the web of political forces that influence schools.” Fact: There are five dimensions of educational politics. 1. at the federal, state, and local levels 2. Legal rights & responsibilities of teachers 3. Conflicting educational philosophies 4. Competition for educational resources 5. Standards, mandated testing, and calls for accountability
Chapter 1 Question: What groups are competing for control of schools in the United States? Fact:Power and decisions formerly made by the superintendent and school board are delegated to teachers, principals, parents,community members, and students at local schools. Quote:"When it comes to reforming the nation's schools, these days the leading radicals are likely to be wearing pin-striped suits and come from oak-paneled boardrooms rather than the ivy-covered walls of academia" (Homes 1990, D2).
Chapter 2 Fact: A 2001 national survey of schoolboard members revealed that women constitute 39% of school boards and men 61%. Question: How can partnerships with parents provide support for teachers? Quote: "We can sweep up all of this mess and get back to what education comes down do: caring, intelligent, trustworthy, and knowledgeable adults who will ensure that every student can learn" (Cosby 2004, xii-xiii).
Question: Why don't "we" put the energy and money into our public schools that are put into creating charter schools? Why are we reinventing the wheel? Quote: I'm assuming that the President of the United States probably never went to a poor and neglected public school-where books have missing pages walls have peeling paint, children have nothing to draw or write with, and where there is no library for reading a story or doing homework. These are the funkiest rooms: the poorest public schools where every year there are more cutbacks; where there’s less money all the time. Quote & Question: New York City school system- has more than a million pupils ( from 190 countries), nearly 64,000 teachers,1,200 schools , and total annual expenditures of almost $11 billion. How can this school district be run efficiently?
Education is political!!! Anything you do is political; it is laden with values and meanings. If you do not do anything, that is still political too. You need to understand the political parts of education and how little the federal government provides schools in the end. It only gives about 7% of the school's budget. The federal government has an indirect control in the schools. Study indirect versus direct controls. Many groups (even competing groups) are fighting for control in schools. Think about how many different philosophies of education there are, and there are just as many groups out there with tensions in the schools.
my chapter one and two questions, quotes, and facts wont post on your blogspot...when i click post and you enter in the word that it says, it wont load.. so here are mine for ch. 1 and 2
Michelle Munsell Ch.1 Question: How are teachers using the internet to influence educational policies? Fact: Currently 36 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia have adopted charter school legislation, and 3,300 schools serve almost one million students. Quote: "When i am eighty years old and someone asks me what i did in my life, I will remember those students holding those signs. I will straighten up and proudly say, 'I was a teacher."'
Ch.2 Fact: The number of local public school districts has declined from 119,001 in 1937-38 to 14,928 in 1999-2000, as a result of efforts to consolidate districts. Quote: "Parents may not be involved legally in the governance of schools, but they do play and important role in education." Question: How can partnerships with parents provide support for teachers?
Chapter 1 Educational politics refer to how people use power, influence and authority to affect instructional and curricular practices within a school or school system.
"To be a teacher, then, is to experience these political pressures."
Why are the teachers not allowed to make decisions about what is taught instead of politicians and testmakers? How many people would go to an insurance company for open heart surgery instead of going to a surgeon?
Chapter 2 Teachers should be dedicated professionals who know that their first allegience is to the students they teach. I am not saying that no action should be taken against school boards who do not live up to their promises, however, "strike" shouold not be in our vocabulary. "Teaching moment" should be, what can we do with it?
How do we get the Federal Government to pay more attention to its own people and less to the rest of the world?
Time is a precious commodity and teachers need it to meet and plan with students, parents, principals, and citizens about how to take back their schools so that they can teach and kids can learn.
Chapter 1 Question:What groups are competing for control of schools in the United States? Fact:In 1995, the percentage of students at or above the national norm in reading was 26.5 percent. Quote:"Politicians compete among themselves for political positions, and workers and business people compete for higher wages and profits. Schools supply the arena for such competition." Spring
Chapter 2 Question: Quote:"We can sweep up all of this mess and get back to what education comes down to: caring, intelligent, trustworthy, and knowledgeable adults who will ensure that every student can learn." Cosby Fact:A 2001 national survey of school board members revealed that women costituted 39 percent of school boards and men 61 percent.
Chapter 1 Q: Do you think charter schools are strengthening or weakening the U.S. system of public schools? F: Restructuring is reorganizing how schools are controlled at the local level so that teachers, principals, parents, and community members have greater authority. Q: School policies are developed in a political milleu, and “reforming schools is essentially a series of political acts not technical solutions to problems”. Chapter 2 Q: How do communities influence schools? F: The superintendent is invariably the key figure in determining a districts educational policy. Q: The chief state school officer is the chief administrator of the state department of education and the head of the state board of education.
Peggy Chapter 1 How do Educational Politics place teachers"in the line of fire"? Charter schools and for-profit schools, both part of the privatization movement, were developed in response to perceived inadequacies of the public schools. "It is clear that business has an open door to the top policymakers, including the President,in a way that professional educators would envy."
Chapter 2 How does the federal government influence education? At times, the roles of the federal, state, and federal governments in education are in conflict. "Our children's furture is more important thana 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."
Chap 1 Quote Whenever educators act to influence educational policies they are acting politically
Fact Charter schools generally score no better (& often do worse) on student achievement tests than other comparable public school students.
Question How do educational politics place teachers "in the line of fire"?
Chap 2 Quote NCLB requires states to develop accountability plans to ensure that all students become proficient in reading and math and that achievement gaps between socioeconomi backgrounds are closed. George W. Bush
Fact The number of local public school districts has declined from 119,001 in 1937-38 to 14,928 in 1999-2000 as a result of efforts to consolidate districts
Question What powers and influences do states have in governing schools?
ch 1 question- Are there groups competeing for control schools in the US- What groups, why? fact- Charter schools are independent,innovative,outcome-based ,public schools. quote- "When i am eighty years old and someone asks me what i did in my life, I will remember those students holding those signs. I will straighten up and proudly say, 'I was a teacher." ch 2 question- Are partnerships with parents ever negative in the classroom? fact- The superintendent is invariably the key figure in determining a districts educational policy. quote- "Our children's furture 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."
chpt 1 question: the idea of private not public schools is becoming popular, is it just the idea of it or actually switching over? fact: SBM increases communication among teachers, principals, parents, students and other groups concerned with the operation of schools. quote: we areplacing you on block scheduling. end of discussion. "the next say, the teacherswore black ribbons mourning the death of site-based management."
chpt 2 quote: the quality of school board goverance effectiveness is the single most district success or failure question: when the state legislature makes their decisions, what majority must agree for a new law/ruling to pass? fact: the steady increase in state control since the 1980's is the fact that the states now supply the majority of funding for schools
Chapter 1 question: What groups are competing for control of schools in the united states? quote:"let teachers make the decisions not corporate test makers" fact: charter schools are independent, innovative, outcome-based, public schools. \
Chapter 2 question: How does the local community influence schools? quote: "the quality of school board governance effectiveness is the single most imporant determinant of school district success or failure" according to Rod Paige, former U.S. secretary of Education under President George W. Bush Fact: the state board of education, acting under the authority of the state legislature, is the highest educational agency in a state.
Misty Roe Chapter 1 & 2 Fact-Teachers are expected to implement higher educational standards and to prepare, students for tests that assess students' mastery of these standards. Quote-President George W. Bush stated prior to his election to a second term in 2004, his educational platform would reflect a strong emphasis on standards and accountability. Question-What do you know about educational politics?
CH.1
ReplyDeleteWhy do you need to understand educational politics?
"The teacher acts as an advocate for students."
INTASC
To open a charter school,an original charter is signed by the school's founders and a sponsor. Charter schools are independent,innovative,outcome-based ,public schools.
CH. 2
How does the federal government influence education?
"Poor performance will no longer be hidden. Results will no longer be kept from parents. We will continue to work with schools that are performing poorly. Assessment results will be used to guide decisions,target resources, and reward success." George W. Bush
North Carolina has created a 23-member Textbook Commission made up of teachers, principals, parents, and a local superintendent.
Question: What is the privatization movement?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “…it is difficult to untangle the web of political forces that influence schools.”
Fact: There are five dimensions of educational politics. 1. at the federal, state, and local levels 2. Legal rights & responsibilities of teachers 3. Conflicting educational philosophies 4. Competition for educational resources 5. Standards, mandated testing, and calls for accountability
Katherine Hecker
ReplyDeleteQuestion: If school boards have been criticized so much for not educating themselves about the issues, why hasn't anything been done?
Quote: " In the rhetoric of democratic elistism, only the "best" the elite shoucld determine important public matters."
Fact: A 2001 survey of school board members revealed that women constitueted 39 percent of school boards and men 61 percent.
Chapter 1
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What groups are competing for control of schools in the United States?
Fact:Power and decisions formerly made by the superintendent and school board are delegated to teachers, principals, parents,community members, and students at local schools.
Quote:"When it comes to reforming the nation's schools, these days the leading radicals are likely to be wearing pin-striped suits and come from oak-paneled boardrooms rather than the ivy-covered walls of academia" (Homes 1990, D2).
Chapter 2
Fact: A 2001 national survey of schoolboard members revealed that women constitute 39% of school boards and men 61%.
Question: How can partnerships with parents provide support for teachers?
Quote: "We can sweep up all of this mess and get back to what education comes down do: caring, intelligent, trustworthy, and knowledgeable adults who will ensure that every student can learn" (Cosby 2004, xii-xiii).
Question: Why don't "we" put the energy and money into our public schools that are put into creating charter schools? Why are we reinventing the wheel?
ReplyDeleteQuote: I'm assuming that the President of the United States probably never went to a poor and neglected public school-where books have missing pages walls have peeling paint, children have nothing to draw or write with, and where there is no library for reading a story or doing homework. These are the funkiest rooms: the poorest public schools where every year there are more cutbacks; where there’s less money all the time.
Quote & Question: New York City school system- has more than a million pupils ( from 190 countries), nearly 64,000 teachers,1,200 schools , and total annual expenditures of almost $11 billion. How can this school district be run efficiently?
Class,
ReplyDeleteEducation is political!!! Anything you do is political; it is laden with values and meanings. If you do not do anything, that is still political too. You need to understand the political parts of education and how little the federal government provides schools in the end. It only gives about 7% of the school's budget. The federal government has an indirect control in the schools. Study indirect versus direct controls. Many groups (even competing groups) are fighting for control in schools. Think about how many different philosophies of education there are, and there are just as many groups out there with tensions in the schools.
Good points here,
Dr. Hendrix
my chapter one and two questions, quotes, and facts wont post on your blogspot...when i click post and you enter in the word that it says, it wont load.. so here are mine for ch. 1 and 2
ReplyDeleteMichelle Munsell
Ch.1
Question: How are teachers using the internet to influence educational policies?
Fact: Currently 36 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia have adopted charter school legislation, and 3,300 schools serve almost one million students.
Quote: "When i am eighty years old and someone asks me what i did in my life, I will remember those students holding those signs. I will straighten up and proudly say, 'I was a teacher."'
Ch.2
Fact: The number of local public school districts has declined from 119,001 in 1937-38 to 14,928 in 1999-2000, as a result of efforts to consolidate districts.
Quote: "Parents may not be involved legally in the governance of schools, but they do play and important role in education."
Question: How can partnerships with parents provide support for teachers?
Chapter 1
ReplyDeleteEducational politics refer to how people use power, influence and authority to affect instructional and curricular practices within a school or school system.
"To be a teacher, then, is to experience these political pressures."
Why are the teachers not allowed to make decisions about what is taught instead of politicians and testmakers? How many people would go to an insurance company for open heart surgery instead of going to a surgeon?
Chapter 2
Teachers should be dedicated professionals who know that their first allegience is to the students they teach. I am not saying that no action should be taken against school boards who do not live up to their promises, however, "strike" shouold not be in our vocabulary. "Teaching moment" should be, what can we do with it?
How do we get the Federal Government to pay more attention to its own people and less to the rest of the world?
Time is a precious commodity and teachers need it to meet and plan with students, parents, principals, and citizens about how to take back their schools so that they can teach and kids can learn.
Chapter 1
ReplyDeleteQuestion:What groups are competing for control of schools in the United States?
Fact:In 1995, the percentage of students at or above the national norm in reading was 26.5 percent.
Quote:"Politicians compete among themselves for political positions, and workers and business people compete for higher wages and profits. Schools supply the arena for such competition." Spring
Chapter 2
Question:
Quote:"We can sweep up all of this mess and get back to what education comes down to: caring, intelligent, trustworthy, and knowledgeable adults who will ensure that every student can learn." Cosby
Fact:A 2001 national survey of school board members revealed that women costituted 39 percent of school boards and men 61 percent.
Chapter 1
ReplyDeleteQ: Do you think charter schools are strengthening or weakening the U.S. system of public schools?
F: Restructuring is reorganizing how schools are controlled at the local level so that teachers, principals, parents, and community members have greater authority.
Q: School policies are developed in a political milleu, and “reforming schools is essentially a series of political acts not technical solutions to problems”.
Chapter 2
Q: How do communities influence schools?
F: The superintendent is invariably the key figure in determining a districts educational policy.
Q: The chief state school officer is the chief administrator of the state department of education and the head of the state board of education.
Peggy
ReplyDeleteChapter 1
How do Educational Politics place teachers"in the line of fire"?
Charter schools and for-profit schools, both part of the privatization movement, were developed in response to perceived inadequacies of the public schools.
"It is clear that business has an open door to the top policymakers, including the President,in a way that professional educators would envy."
Chapter 2
How does the federal government influence education?
At times, the roles of the federal, state, and federal governments in education are in conflict.
"Our children's furture is more important thana 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."
Chap 1
ReplyDeleteQuote Whenever educators act to influence educational policies they are acting politically
Fact Charter schools generally score no better (& often do worse) on student achievement tests than other comparable public school students.
Question How do educational politics place teachers "in the line of fire"?
Chap 2
Quote NCLB requires states to develop accountability plans to ensure that all students become proficient in reading and math and that achievement gaps between socioeconomi backgrounds are closed. George W. Bush
Fact The number of local public school districts has declined from 119,001 in 1937-38 to 14,928 in 1999-2000 as a result of efforts to consolidate districts
Question What powers and influences do states have in governing schools?
ch 1
ReplyDeletequestion- Are there groups competeing for control schools in the US- What groups, why?
fact- Charter schools are independent,innovative,outcome-based ,public schools.
quote- "When i am eighty years old and someone asks me what i did in my life, I will remember those students holding those signs. I will straighten up and proudly say, 'I was a teacher."
ch 2
question- Are partnerships with parents ever negative in the classroom?
fact- The superintendent is invariably the key figure in determining a districts educational policy.
quote- "Our children's furture 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."
chpt 1
ReplyDeletequestion: the idea of private not public schools is becoming popular, is it just the idea of it or actually switching over?
fact: SBM increases communication among teachers, principals, parents, students and other groups concerned with the operation of schools.
quote: we areplacing you on block scheduling. end of discussion. "the next say, the teacherswore black ribbons mourning the death of site-based management."
chpt 2
quote: the quality of school board goverance effectiveness is the single most district success or failure
question: when the state legislature makes their decisions, what majority must agree for a new law/ruling to pass?
fact: the steady increase in state control since the 1980's is the fact that the states now supply the majority of funding for schools
Chapter 1
ReplyDeletequestion: What groups are competing for control of schools in the united states?
quote:"let teachers make the decisions not corporate test makers"
fact: charter schools are independent, innovative, outcome-based, public schools. \
Chapter 2
question: How does the local community influence schools?
quote: "the quality of school board governance effectiveness is the single most imporant determinant of school district success or failure" according to Rod Paige, former U.S. secretary of Education under President George W. Bush
Fact: the state board of education, acting under the authority of the state legislature, is the highest educational agency in a state.
Misty Roe
ReplyDeleteChapter 1 & 2
Fact-Teachers are expected to implement higher educational standards and to prepare, students for tests that assess students' mastery of these standards.
Quote-President George W. Bush stated prior to his election to a second term in 2004, his educational platform would reflect a strong emphasis on standards and accountability.
Question-What do you know about educational politics?
ch 1
ReplyDeleteHow big of a role does educational politics play in a school?
Seymour Sarason "education is a system iin which accountability is so diffused that no one is accountable."
Educators use within-school politics to influence instructional and curricular practices within a school.
ch 2
Do the people ona school board typically reflect the diversity shown in the school as well?
Theodore Sizer "the issue of education touches more of your fellow citizens"
The state board of education is the highest level education agency in the state.