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Time period of Achievement Era?
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1983-Present
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What were elements of the Standards movement?
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- No way to look at individual growth
- Outline grade level expectations, not individual student expectations - What students need to know / teachers need to teach - Students compared to cornet standards, not other students - |
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What are elements of No Child Left Behind?
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- 2002 "Academic Excellence for all"
- Links standards movement to testing requirements - Accountability linked to outcome |
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What are problems of NCLB?
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- Fractured!!!!
- Teaching to the test - Narrowed curriculum - Lack of professional development for teachers |
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What was Channel One Reform Effort?
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- Lead by Chris Wittle
- Channel One: installed computer networks in schools in order To provide current events, news programs; began in 1990 & continues today in 12,000 schools |
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What was the Edison Project?
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- Chris Whittle's private company
- Edison Project: outside agency to provide administration assistance; manage district (instead of School Board), included charter schools |
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What was the National Council for the Accreditation of Teachers?
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- NCATE
- Effort to link the state process of teacher certification to the NCATE approval of the University/college teacher education programs - Put pressure on institutions to be NCATE approved because public felt teachers were not fully educated |
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What were elements of the Achievement Era?
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- Continued dissatisfaction with teaching and public education lead to reforms geared on "excellence" and "choice" (privatization, charter schools)
- Focused purely on academics |
