RECURRING QUESTIONS What are the goals of education?

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RECURRING QUESTIONS What are the goals of education? Who gets to define and prioritize those goals? How do some goals conflict with others?

What are the goals?

OBVIOUS (“MANIFEST”) ANSWERS (from a person’s point of view) Literacy & Numeracy Skills Critical and Creative Thinking Skills 21st Century Technological Skill Happy Well-Rounded Lives w/ Potential Fulfilled Global Perspectives and Knowledge

OBVIOUS (“MANIFEST”) ANSWERS (from a country’s point of view) Skilled and Globally Competitive Workforce Engaged, Knowledgeable, Responsible Citizens

OBVIOUS (“MANIFEST”) ANSWERS (from a country’s point of view) Skilled and Globally Competitive Workforce Engaged, Knowledgeable, Responsible Citizens

FUNCTIONALISM Schools serve multiple positive functions: Teaching norms and values that encourage social order Training people for jobs in a complex modern economy

FUNCTIONALISM CONFLICT THEORY Schools serve multiple positive functions: Teaching norms and values that encourage social order maintain inequality Training people for jobs in a complex modern economy Teaching people to accept their place in the social order

CONFLICT THEORY Schooling as an arena of competition between social groups … and as a place for justifying the current social order e.g., Anyon (1980)

CONFLICT THEORY Correspondence Theory (e. g CONFLICT THEORY Correspondence Theory (e.g., Bowles and Gintis) The function of schools is to reproduce the social relations of production … to get workers ready to be workers and bosses ready to be bosses

CONFLICT THEORY Credentialism and Signaling Theory Schools don’t teach job skills … they provide credentials; credentials signal social status

CONFLICT THEORY Maximally Maintained Inequality Advantaged social groups seek more and more education to maintain their social position; this has the effect of increasing how far people have to go in school

CONFLICT THEORY Effectively Maintained Inequality If they can’t get more schooling, advantaged social groups seek more prestigious schooling to maintain their social position

OBVIOUS (“MANIFEST”) ANSWERS (from a country’s point of view) Skilled and Globally Competitive Workforce Engaged, Knowledgeable, Responsible Citizens

OBVIOUS (“MANIFEST”) ANSWERS (from a country’s point of view) Skilled and Globally Competitive Workforce Engaged, Knowledgeable, Responsible Citizens

Percentage of Americans Ineligible to Vote in 2012 Presidential Election Source: 2012 U.S. General Social Survey

Percentage of Americans Voting in 2012 Presidential Election Source: 2012 U.S. General Social Survey

Source: November Current Population Surveys, Voter Supplements

VOTING … ONE VIEW Everyone has the right and obligation to vote, so education is crucial for a well-informed electorate. We should education people better so they vote more often and more knowledgably

VOTING … ANOTHER VIEW Historically, many groups have been denied the right to vote … so educating them was at least less unnecessary and potentially dangerous.

VOTING … ANOTHER VIEW The content of history and civics curricula have been contested … and have tended to reflect the perspectives of those with political and economic power.

What are the goals?

CULTURAL ASSIMILATION (aka, “Americanization” … especially around language and religion)

ASSIMILATION Schools should teach all students … regardless of their cultural background or home language … to assimilate to mainstream American culture and to primarily speak English. PLURALISM Schools should value and maintain students’ unique cultural backgrounds and home languages. Educational practices should be multicultural and multilingual for all students.

ASSIMILATION Schools should teach all students … regardless of their cultural background or home language … to assimilate to mainstream American culture and to primarily speak English. PLURALISM Schools should value and maintain students’ unique cultural backgrounds and home languages. Educational practices should be multicultural and multilingual for all students.

What are the goals?

SOCIAL MOBILITY Overcoming Past Injustices vs Reproducing Social Inequality

SOCIAL MOBILITY Overcoming Past Injustices “Education drives economic and other life outcomes. Everyone has an opportunity to succeed in education. Thus, education is a vehicle for overcoming past injustices.”

SOCIAL MOBILITY Reproducing Social Inequality “Education drives economic and other life outcomes. Children of advantaged groups are more successful in school. Thus, education is a vehicle for reproducing inequality.”

SOCIAL MOBILITY Inequality of Opportunity vs Inequality of Outcomes

RECURRING QUESTIONS What are the goals of education? Who gets to define and prioritize those goals? How do some goals conflict with others?

Trends in Enrollment & Completion

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Trends in School Inputs

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Source: Snyder, Thomas. 193. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement

Total State Local Federal SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1919-20 through 1949-50; Statistics of State School Systems, 1959-60 and 1969-70; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1979-80; and Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1989-90 through 2014-15. (This table was prepared October 2017.)

Local State Federal SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1919-20 through 1949-50; Statistics of State School Systems, 1959-60 and 1969-70; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1979-80; and Common Core of Data (CCD), "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1989-90 through 2014-15. (This table was prepared October 2017.)

Trends in Achievement Test Scores

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013 Source: National Center for Education Statistics. 2013. The Nation s Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012. NCES 2013-456. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.