SESSION FIVE:
Private and Public Education

AGENDA:

• Check in!
• Critiques of Liberalism and Conservatism
  • The difficulty of being in the middle: liberalism
  • Socratic seminar: "Teach the content or change the society?"
• School reform?
  • Improving schools without improving neighborhoods
• DINNER
• Public schools in the United States
  • History of American public education
  • Structure and Models of Public Education
• Private schools in the United States
  • The Beginnings of Private Education
  • Various Models Within Private Education
• Introduction to Fieldwork for the Course (computer lab)
  • School site visits and analysis form
  • Practice questions and mock interview
• Explain homework

HOMEWORK:

• Make an appointment and go visit and interview a school administor!
• Which school do you hope to visit? Why? The numbers? What do you REALLY want to know?
• Different models of private schools in American education.

COURSE NOTES AND HANDOUTS:

Critique of Liberalism and Conservatism
History of American Public Education, Part I

Sample Appointment Script - An example of what to say when making a school appointment.
School Model Checklist - Delineates the specific criteria for your school model analysis.
School Model Definitions - Defines the major types of different school models.
School Model Questions - Suggested questions for your school appointment. (.rtf version)
Writing Standards - University of La Verne writing standards, in grid rubric form.

SUPPLEMENTAL READING:

SCHOOL: The Story of American Public Education