SESSION SIX:
Excellence and Equality: No Child Left Behind and its Predecessors

AGENDA:

• Check in - site visits!
• Revise personal philosophy of education statement - Theory and Praxis
  • Brainstorm with rough draft in hand!
• Private Education, Cont'd
• Understanding the Mission of Schooling in U.S.
  • Public Education, Part II
  • Issues surrounding agenda, purpose, and access
• DINNER
• NCLB
  • "College prep" curriculum, API/AYP, "PI Schools "
• "Meeting the needs of every student"
• Reality? The future?
• Where theory meets praxis: Mrs. Geib interview
  • "First Day" article
  • Questions and answers
• "Misunderstood Minds"
• Rest of the class:
  • Personal philosophy, PowerPoint project, philosophy profiles, critical issues paper, school model comparison analysis

HOMEWORK:

• Read "Critical Issues" - Chapter 6: Standards-Based Reform: Real Change or Political Smoke Screen
  • Argument we discussed in class in greater context!
• Personal philosophy statement due next meeting!
  • Re-work paper to reflect more thoroughly your philosophy, taking into account the educational philosophies you found helpful and incorporating them into your vision of yourself as a teacher!
• BBoard posting on equality and excellence
  • Feel free to take the material about No Child Left Behind and comment wherever you might like..!

GUIDING METAPHOR FOR SESSION:
"First Day," by Steve Lane

COURSE NOTES AND HANDOUTS:

History of Education, Part II

PowerPoint Guidelines - Guidelines for your class PowerPoint presentation.
PowerPoint Rubric - Grading rubric for your class PowerPoint presentation.

SUPPLEMENTAL READING:

State of California Testing and Accountability Office
US Gov. No Child Left Behind
"Pencils Down!"
The Education Trust
Harvard Civil Rights Project