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 decisions
Embed teacher professional development in school day
Project based learning (hands-on, tie students’ experience
to disciplinary concepts)
Range of assessments—not just standardized tests—
including portfolios, exhibitions
HTH: offers teaching credential!
EVIDENCE @ CLAIM that SD
Charters ImprovePerformance
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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
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School
Preuss
HiTechHi
SDHS IB
SDHSLEADS
C’fordIDEA
Hoover
Lincoln
2007API
877
807
783
637
570
562
n/a
2008API
881
785
800
717
573
578
540
EVIDENCE @ CLAIM that SD
Charters ImprovePerformance
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School
Preuss
TorreyPines
La Jolla Hi
HiTechHi
Scripps
Pt Loma
2007API
877
852
829
807
785
672
2008API
881
849
818
785
820
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?
The Course at a Glance
Democratic
Function
Technical
Function
Agricultural
Economy
1787
Critique
Information
Economy?
Industrial
Economy
1865
1983
Functions of Education
In Historical Context
Today
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,
Pollution
Budget fallout: firing teachers
Firing 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 consciousness
Capacity: 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