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Question: How do teachers teaching history refrain from showing bias?
ReplyDeleteQutoe- "Jefferson believed education and democracy were inextricably linked" (391).
Fact- Ruth Batson was a civil rights and education activist, a NAACP leader, and the first black female member of the Democratic National Committee.
Question: If African Americans did not start to educate themselves would we still have slavery?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “to provide schooling for everyone’s children that reflects liberal, middle-class values and aspirations is to ensure the maintenance of the status quo, to ensure that power, the culture of power, remains in the hands of those who already have it.”
Fact: Today, over 95% of young people receive either a high school diploma or GED by the time they are in their mid-20s.
1. Do you think the school system is the best way to resolve educational debates?
ReplyDelete2. Deborah Meier insisted, “We need to return schools to our fellow citizens-yes, ordinary citizens, with all their warts. The solution to the messiness of democracy is more of it-and more time set aside to make it work… That’s what local school boards are intended to all about. If we can’t trust ordinary citizens with matters of local k-12 schooling, whatever can we trust them with?”
3. I found it fascinating that the Detroit lost about half of their students in the public school system from 2001 to 2010.
Fact: Pg 394-395. In 1855, the public schools of Boston were desegregated by state law. Beginning not long after the end of the Civil War, there was an assault on the fundamental meaning of democracy as stste after state effectively took away African American citizens right to vote, to participate in the larger society, or to receive a quality education.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Pg 409. (From the book) Unlike painters at their easels, teachers cannot create whatever they wish in the classroom. They are public servants beholden to the public to get a particular job done. However as teachers, rather than as mere socializers, they also help equip students to think for themselves, to concieve their own ideas and hopes and to prepare themselves for the task of making tomorrows world into something other tan a tired copy of todays. Is this a hard task as a teacher to accomplish both goals?
Quote: Pg.390. In an environment of standards, testing and accountability, we often forget that public education serves a larger purpose. That larger mission is to help young people develop the convictions and skills to shape a safe and sustainable and just world. Preserving and promoting a democratic society was the founding precept of our public education system and, if we are to continue to preserve our democracy, this mission must remain central to our efforts.
Question: How can we make our schools more democratic?
ReplyDeleteQuote: It's like we're being hidden, as if we are put in a garage. Where if they don't want something but aren't sure if they should throw it out, they put it where they don't need to think of it again.
Fact: A century ago, only 5% of adolesants received a high school diploma, 50% received a diploma 50 years ago, and today that number is 95%.
Question: Why did Jefferson believe education and democracy were inextricably linked?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Of the people, for the people, and by the people"(386).
Fact: Mann has come to be known as the father of public education in the United States.
Chapter 12 was more of the politics from Chapter 11 only on a more focused level.
ReplyDeleteThe fact I found most interesting is that 5% of adolescents received a diploma a century ago, while over 95% percent of adolescents today receive a diploma.
The Question I came up with was "How is democracy taught and used through out modern day schools?"
The quote I found most interesting was by Booker T. Washington when he said "Few people who were not right in the midst of the scenes can form any exact idea of intense desire which the people of my race showed for education. It was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn." Washingtons words hold a lot of meaning and tell you how this group of people were literally trying their hardest to get an education , as they knew it was the one tool they could acquire that could make the biggest impact on the cultural they were shackled by.
After reading chapter 12 I never realized till now that the schools hold such a high standing in democracy. In school I never saw it but now reading how it affects our lives and how the teachers are the first to place the idea into young learners, explains just how important teachers really are. We help students to adults…we help them to be an asset to society. The question I propose is how do we get students to recognize this? Or better yet how do we get the government, towns, and people out of school to realize how important our roles as teachers really are? In school I never realized just how important democracy is or how it is being taught, but now that I want to be a teacher I see so many opportunities and challenges.
ReplyDelete“Many students do not receive the kind of quality education that most people believe is their birthright because the community in which they live does not have sufficient resources to hire the best teachers or invest in buildings, technology, or laboratories” (p. 400). How do we help this? I feel horrible for the students that do not have a good school because it is the rest of their lives, and it makes me want to go and be the best teacher I can for them…but I also need to know I will be safe, money secure, and able to do my job correctly, in those conditions. How can we do this for teachers?
“’ I often wondered why we would agree to let our children go to school in places where no politician, school board president, or business CEO would dream of working’” said Kozol. (p.402)
?: How can we make our schools more democratic?
ReplyDeletequote: "We must make them feel welcomed and invited by allowing their interest, culture, and history into the classroom." ~Lisa Delpit
fact: Jefferson believed education and democracy were inextricably linked.
Fact- "A century ago, only five percent of adolescents received a high school diploma.... Today over 95% of young people receive either a high school diploma or a GED by the time they are in their mid-20s." (400)
ReplyDeleteQuote- "Horace Mann believed that education should be funded for all citizens and should be inclusive regardless of class (although not race) (392)
Question- Do you think we have came to far on trying not to discriminate? Equality for everyone is my personal goal! But speaking in the terms of special scholarships (although more than likely funded by private parties) given to multiple minority groups. I probably just have this question because I am a straight Caucasian male who has observed and been told about special college funding.
Quote: "The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibilities." -bell hooks
ReplyDeleteFact: John Dewey's progressional education movement is considered "a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
Question: Can schools be brought together and become better environments through civic engagement?
Fact: Over 95% of young people receive either a high school diploma or GED by the time they are in their mid-20s
ReplyDeleteQuestion: Is "teaching democracy" an appropriate expectation for our schools, along with all the core material that has to be covered?
Quote: "It is difficult to negotiate the tensions between what has status in oyr society and what you see important as a teacher" pg 404
How does one teach democracy along with everything else we have to do?
ReplyDeleteA century ago, only 5% of adolescents received a high school diploma,and half a century ago, only 50% of this age group did so.
"Schools have crucial obligations not only to individual students and families, but to our society as a whole"-the editors of rethinking schools
Fact: Today 95% of people have a GED or H.S. Diploma by the time they are in their mid 20’s.
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Technique without character is chaos and war. Character without technique is labor and want. W.E.B. Du Bois
Question: Do you remember a school lesson that dealt directly with what it meant to be a citizen? Was it effective in being more understanding of the community around you?
Quote: For better or worse, politics at the federal and local levels play a major role in education.
ReplyDeleteFact: 100 years ago only 5% of people got their diploma. Now 95% get theirs or their GED.
Question: How do you avoid poltics in a Government class?
Question: how can we make our schools more democratic?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "the classroom, with all it's limitations, remains a location of possibility..."
Fact: In the 20th century 5% of the population finished highschool and the majority dropped out by the end of 5th grade.
Question-How can schools become more democratic?
ReplyDeleteQuote-Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the common school improved and energized as it easily can be, may become the most effective and benignant of all the forces of civilization."
Fact-100 years ago only 5% of people graduated high school, now 95%.
Question: What are some tactics teachers can use to bridge the gaps between inequality and different types of segregation within the classroom?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Thomas Jefferson said, “Those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance.” (391)
Fact: Today, over 95% of young people receive either a high school diploma or a GED by the time they are in their mid-20s (400).
Question: Where do you draw the line between the status in our society and what you see important as a teacher?
ReplyDeleteFact: Over 95% of young people recieve either a high school diploma or GED by the time they are in their mid-20's.
Quote: "We did not learn to read nor write, as it was against the law for any person to teach any slave to read; and any slave caught writing suffered the penalty of having his forefinger cut from his right hand; yet there were some who could read and write."
Question: If Jefferson only aimed education to the free wealthy white male, then why do we follow his educational philosophy when he didn't want to give everyone the same educational opportunity?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “to provide schooling for everyone’s children that reflects liberal, middle-class values and aspirations is to ensure the maintenance of the status quo, to ensure that power, the culture of power, remains in the hands of those who already have it.”
Fact: Jefferson believed education and democracy were inextricably linked.
Just that we would use that lesson to inform our kids what happens when intolerance of a people based their religious differences goes too far, really. I mean, in a base nutshell, that's what the Holocaust was about.
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