126 Announcements

• Final Exam is on CREATE Website (save a tree):

• Project Information:Today in Class– Halat Qadir-Iraq & US

Education

• Today in CREATE at 4:00– Group #33: Sociological

Themes in The Blind Side

• Thursday June 3 In Class

• Angineh Torosiyan & Coral Leidke-Iran, US & Germany

• Devalin Jackson-The Relevance of HCBUs

Project Information-con’t

• June 8– In CREATE– 1:30: Jalin Patel: The

Value of AP – 1:50 Tina Kim: Education

in Korea– In CH 113– 3:00: Group 21:

Education in Mexico– 3:20: Group 35: Teacher

Preparation

• June 8th (con’t)– 3:40: Ernest & Cazarez:

Narratives in Textbooks– 4:00 Craig Curry

Consequences of Math Instruction Changes

– 4:20: Group 32: Class Differences in Parent Involvement

Preuss/Gompers Theory of Action

• Cultural– GCMS: “Culture Camp”

to instill common high expectations, predictability

– College teams– signs, banners, uniforms

to signal “college going culture”

– UCSD students serve as tutors, role models

Preuss/Gompers Theory of Action

• Political– UCSD: Contentious

debate led to CREATE & Preuss

– Gompers: Also contentious: Activist parents + Sup’t + community groups led to charter

Other Local Innovations: HTH, KIPP

Range of academic calendar (zero periods, contracts, periods of varying, longer school year)

Local personnel decisionsEmbed teacher professional development in school dayProject based learning (hands-on, tie students’ experience

to disciplinary concepts)Range of assessments—not just standardized tests—

including portfolios, exhibitionsHTH: offers teaching credential!

EVIDENCE @ CLAIM that SD Charters ImprovePerformance

• Preuss: 4-year College Enrollment– 2004: 80% (N=55)– 2005: 84% (N=75)– 20O6: 78% (N=87) – 2007: 87% (N=78)– 2008: 87% (N=87)– 2009: 93% (N=93)

• Preuss: State-wide Tests (API)– 2004: 2nd in County (844)– 2005: 1st in County (861)– 2006: 2nd in County (879)– 2007: 1st in County (877)– 2008: 1st in County (881)– 2009: 1st in County (894)

GCMS

EVIDENCE @ CLAIM that SD Charters ImprovePerformance• School 2007API 2008API• Preuss 877 881• HiTechHi 807 785• SDHS IB 783 800• SDHSLEADS 637 717• C’fordIDEA 570 573• Hoover 562 578• Lincoln n/a 540

EVIDENCE @ CLAIM that SD Charters ImprovePerformance• School 2007API 2008API

• Preuss 877 881

• TorreyPines 852 849

• La Jolla Hi 829 818

• HiTechHi 807 785

• Scripps 785 820

• Pt Loma 672 709

Summary

• Local Charters have better record than US average:– Bureaucracy– Competition– Student achievement– Educate all students? Or promote more

segregation?

Topic 11: The Future

Today: A resurgent democratic vision?

Thursday: A new, virtual classroom?

Democratic Function

TechnicalFunction

1787 18651983

Functions of Education In Historical Context

The Course at a Glance

Today

Critique

Agricultural Economy

IndustrialEconomy

InformationEconomy?

A Resurgent Democratic Vision?

• Freire’s Democratic Vision--Purpose of Education– The development of a critical consciousness;

especially for the under class– Social Justice curriculum– Adult literacy built on politically charged language

• Severe Critique of conventional education, which he calls the “Banking Model”

Democratic Vision as Local Governance

• Local control over educational decisions:– curriculum, – budgets, – employment

• Students, teachers, and parents involved in decision making (e. g: the redesign of Gompers Charter Middle School)

Democracy in Curriculum and Instruction

• Topics: important curricular concerns in natural sciences and social sciences • Activated by students real questions and real-world experiences (Dewey):

Voter registration, Location of land fills, PollutionBudget fallout: firing teachersFiring Ranges/ROTC

• Instruction: Project based, thematic, collaborative, • Inquiry as problem solving

Evaluation

• Not content with any single measure, but especially not just quick-answer standardized tests

• Calls for multiple measures, including:– Exhibitions– Portfolios– Examples: Central Park East, High Tech

High, Preuss

Challenges“Social Justice” curriculum is unAmerican (Manzo)Tension between developing students’ skills and

critical consciousnessCapacity: Finding and preparing teachers, in an

era of standards and accountability, which seems to seek to “teacher proof” the curriculum

• Connecting to Parents’ Conception of Education—which may be more traditional or instrumental (technical)

• Reconciling with Standards and Accountability Demands