1. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Education as the Great Equalizer Learning Power Mann Gatto

2. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Introduction: “The Myth of Education and Empowerment” –What Is “The Education Myth?” –Do The “Fast Facts” Support Our Findings From The Analytical Thinking Slides? –When Did Americans Embrace Education, According To The Editors? –What Did John Dewey Propose? What Type Of Education System Did This Resemble In Anyon’s Model? –What Role Did Industrialization Play In America’s Education? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/education/14students.html Read The NY Times And Washington Post Articles On Americans And Other Countries In Education Tests. What Do These Findings Say About “Fast Fact #6?” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901360.html http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/presentations/fetc2004/infolit.html

3. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Horace Mann: “From Report Of the Massachusetts Board of Education, 1848” –According To Horace Mann, What Are The Five Functions Of Education? –What Would Happen To Us Without Education, According To Mann? –Mann Wrote His Education Theories During The “First American Republic.” Do They Apply Today? Poster of Horace Mann At My Son’s Public School (Long Cane Elementary School)

4. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth John Taylor Gatto: “Against School” –What Makes Gatto An Education Expert? –When Did Mass Schooling Begin? Where Did We Get It From? Why Does This Matter? –What Are The Functions Of Schools, According To Inglis? How Does They Differ From Mann’s? –What Should We Do With Kids? –You Be The Mythbuster How Were Our Founding Fathers And Famous People Of The 1800s Educated? Do A Little Research On The Names Gatto Mentions On Page 150.

5. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Education as the Great Equalizer Levitt & Dubner Schoolteachers & Sumo Wrestlers

6. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Freakonomics: What Do Humans Respond To? Where Do These Come From? How Do These Explain –Late Pickups At An Israeli Day Care? –Blood Donations For Money? –How 7 Million Kids Disappeared One Night? –Why Cheating Occurs In High Stakes Testing? Sumo Wrestling? http://4.images.theweek.com/img/dir_0059/29790_cartoon_main.jpg?46 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4LrAkzfpSmM/TTHGV6x5O4I/AAAAAAAAJzY/RrbpzsIyt- E/s1600/Daddy%2BDay%2BCare%2B%25282003%2529.jpg

7. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth You Be The Mythbuster –Take Any One Of The Cases From The Freakonomics Book Chapter 1 –Outline It On An X-Y Axis –Is There A General Theory That You Could Apply To Another Case (For Example, Your Research Project/Paper?) On This Graph, Include Both Your Independent & Dependent Variable, And The Relationship Between The Variables, If Possible http://www.instructables.com/image/FK077AIFR12319A/X-Y-Axis-Graph.jpg

8. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Education as the Great Equalizer Visual Portfolio, Anyon, Professor X

9. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Visual Portfolio –What Point Are The Editors Trying To Make With The Photos? –What Is The Argument Made By The Cartoons I Have Included In These Slides? http://www.solidarity.com/hkcartoons/teachertoons/images/miketest6.gif http://breadforthecity.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

10. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth What Is “The Hidden Curriculum Of Work?” What Is Jean Anyon’s Argument? How Does She Provide Support For It? Do Her Conclusions Match Your Experience? This Article Was Written Before The “No Child Left Behind Act.” Would Anyon Reach A Similar Or Different Conclusion Today? Do Anyon And Gatto Agree Or Disagree?

11. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Professor X: “In The Basement Of The Ivory Tower” –Who Are The Students Professor X Teaches? –Would You Give Ms. L The “F?” A “D?” A C-? A “Gentlemen’s C?” Justify Your Answer. –Should Everyone Be College Educated? –What Role Should Professors And College Administrators Play In This New Education World? –Why Does The Author Connect The Argument To “The Wizard Of Oz?” http://www.fhms.jordan.k12.ut.us/rattlers/?p=2319 http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban2782l.jpg

12. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth You Be The Mythbuster –Write Out The Authors’ (Mann, Gatto, Prof. X, And Anyon’s) Argument As A Theory, As Well As A Derived Hypothesis (Separately). Social Science Concept: “Replication” –In Social Science, A Good Theory And Its Derived Hypothesis Should Not Only Be “Valid” (Accurate) But “Reliable” (Consistently Displaying Similar Results In A Variety Of Tests). –Anyon’s Study Was Undertaken More Than Twenty Years Ago In New Jersey. How Might We Replicate Such A Study Today In A Georgia Setting? Do You Think We Would Find Similar Results, Or Different Results? Why?

13. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Education Equalizer Myth Test (Education & Poverty Test) –Theory: Education Increases Equality (Of Opportunity) In America IV: Education and DV: Equality (Of Opportunity) http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f8c25c988340120a4fef421970b-500wi

14. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Education Equalizer Myth Test (Education & Poverty Test) –Theory: Education Increases Equality (Of Opportunity) In America IV: Education and DV: Equality (Of Opportunity) http://www.oakridgenow.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cartoon_090910.jpg

15. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth Analysis Of The Education & Poverty Test –What Is The Relationship Between The Independent And Dependent Variable? What Does That Mean? –Is The Relationship Negative Or Positive? –A Significant Relationship Is One With A Very Low “Sig. (2-tailed)” score. Is This A Significant Relationship Or Not? –This Study Is A Correlation Test, Testing Whether Both Variables Are Associated With Each Other. Could There Be A Causal Relationship? How Could You Tell? What Would You Need To Know?

16. American Experience Education Equalizer Myth You Be The Mythbuster –Sometimes It Takes A Few Years For A Plan To Have A Noticeable Impact. –Other Times, A Program Can Have An Effect, But It Is Only Temporary –Look At Poverty Data From 2006- 2008 (2007 Average). Does Education Spending From 1997 (Independent Variable) Reduce A State’s Poverty Rate Ten Years Later (In Absolute Terms, Not Just Relative To Other States)? http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq3/table2.htm http://breadforthecity.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html