1. EDTHP 115 4/28/03
Final week:
Instruction and Instructional Leadership:
The role of the teacher
How do we improve the Curriculum and Instructional Practices?
Are there good examples anywhere? Examples past and present
Federal Role in Education (vs. local role) and Strategies that they use.
Connecting the foundations of education

2. Teaching My Bias Individual and Organizational
Professionalization (Chaps. 1 and 2)
Working with Children
Efforts at Controlling, Limiting, Dictating Teacher Practice
Efforts at Liberating
Efforts and Networking and Strengthening

3. Teaching: Past & Present
Rules for Teachers in the 1800s
Poor Quality of Teachers
Reasons for low quality
Efforts to Train Teachers through Normal Schools
Female Teachers and Feminization
Married Teachers
Progressive Era
New Freedoms
New Responsibilities
New Demands and Authority and Structures
The Schools Take on New Responsibilities—Health and Welfare

4. Teaching Teacher Unions: AFT and NEA Teacher Professionalization
Loyalty Oaths
Bad Pay and Criticisms of the 1950s
Teacher-Proof Curriculum of the 1960s
Example of Distar
Effective Schools, 1970s

5. Teaching 1950s-Present
Free Schools and Alternative Schools, 1960s & 1970s
Examples: Summerhill, Parkway
Teaching after A Nation at Risk
Systemic Reform and Professional Development
Charter Schools (the good and the bad)
Standards-based Reform
NCLB
what we’re hearing in terms of research and practice: CCSSO, etc. And criticisms as related to teacher creativity

6. 1950s—Critiques of Progressive Education & Reactions
Albert Lynd, Quackery in the Public Schools, 1950
Arthur Bestor, Educational Wastelands, 1953
Rudolf F. Flesch, Why Johnny Can’t Read—and what you can do about it, 1955
Harsh critiques of Life Adjustment Education—video clip
Life Magazine, 1958
In addition to desegregation—an oddly simultaneous reform push was going on (or was excellence push perhaps a reaction to desegregation—wanted schools to focus on high quality not equality)

7. Federal Strategies that we will focus on:
Role of the Federal Government—legislation and litigation
Federal involvement in education very limited up through WWII
Northwest Ordinance
Morrill Act 1862
Smith Hughes Act
School Lunch Program
Role sponsoring and disseminating research and info about other programmatic issues, collecting statistics, (some building funds)
NDEA 1958
ESEA 1965
Bilingual Education Act 1968
P.L
Goals 2000
No Child Left behind
Pause here and touch on combined role of feds in deseg and in NDEA and beyond