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American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice

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Course Summary

This course provides an overview of educational systems and policies around the world, with a focus on developing countries. Students will learn about different approaches to education, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing educators in these regions.

Key Learning Points

Gain a broad understanding of educational systems and policies in developing countries
Learn about the challenges and opportunities facing educators in these regions
Explore different approaches to education and how they can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse populations

Learning Outcomes

Understand the challenges and opportunities facing educators in developing countries
Develop an awareness of different educational systems and policies around the world
Explore different approaches to education and how they can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse populations

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic understanding of education and teaching concepts
Access to the internet and a computer or mobile device

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

Online
Self-paced

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Discover what shapes how we talk about schools today by exploring the history of U.S. education reform. Engage with the main actors, key decisions, and major turning points in this history. See how social forces drive reform. Learn about how the critical tensions embedded in U.S. education policy and practice apply to schools nationally, globally— and where you live.

Outline

The Colonial Period and Early Republic
Course Overview
1.1) Course Introduction
1.2) U.S. Education - An Early Transformation
1.3) Literacy in the Colonial Period
1.4) Institutions of Colonial Education
1.5) Early Republic Proponents of Common Schools to Build a New Nation
1.6) Early Republic Schooling in the United States
1.7) Benjamin Franklin’s Academy
Further Learning
Colonial Period/Early Republic Quiz

The National Period
2.1) Introduction
2.2) The National Market Economy
2.3) "What God Hath Wrought": Dramatic Social Innovations
2.4) Horace Mann: Avatar of Common Schools
2.5) The Common School Idea as a Social Movement
2.6) Protestants and Catholics in the Arena
2.7) Education of African Americans and Native Americans
2.8) Secondary Schooling in the Common School Era: The Academy
Further Learning
National Period Quiz

Postbellum Period
3.1) Introduction
3.2) Expansion of the Common School
3.3) After Emancipation: Education of African Americans in the Reconstruction South
3.4) Industrial Education in the South's Organic Society
3.5) Jim Crow and the Radical Segregation of African Americans
3.6) Boarding Schools for Native Americans
3.7) The Rise of the American High School
Further Learning
Postbellum Era Quiz

The Progressive Era
4.1) Introduction
4.2) Progressive Seedbeds of Education Reform
4.3) Rise of the Administrative Progressives in American School Reform
4.4) Psychological Testing Movement
4.5) Social Efficiency Schooling
4.6) The Committee of Ten
4.7) The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education
4.8) The Southern Education Movement
4.9) Rosenwald Schools and County Training Schools for African Americans
Further Learning
Progressive Era Quiz

John Dewey and the Pedagogical Progressives
5.1) The Laboratory School of the University of Chicago
5.2) Dewey’s Theory of Knowledge
5.3) Dewey’s Idea of the School as a Social Center
5.4) Dewey: Missing in Action
5.5) The Pedagogical Progressives
5.6) A Neo-Deweyan Critique of the Pedagogical Progressives
Further Learning
John Dewey Quiz

The Depression Era
Episode 6.1: The Great Depression and a New Deal for America's Youth
Episode 6.2: High Schools in Hard Times
Episode 6.3: Social Reconstruction and the Schools
Episode 6.4: Antecedents to America's Community Schools: Social Centers and Community Centers
Episode 6.5: The Nambé Community School
Episode 6.6: Arthurdale
Episode 6.7: Leonard Covello's Community High School in East Harlem
Further Learning
Depression Era Quiz

Post-World War II
Episode 7.1: Life Adjustment Education
Episode 7.2: The Cold War, McCarthyism, and the Public Schools
Episode 7.3: Waging the Cold War in Schools: Federal Support for Academic Rigor
Episode 7.4: "Radical Romanticists"
Episode 7.5: Education and the Civil Rights Movement: From Plessy to Brown
Episode 7.6: The Last Hurrah of Jim Crow Schools
Episode 7.7: Busing Goes North: The Limits of Racial Integration
Episode 7.8: Community Control and Teacher Unions
Episode 7.9: Title IX and the "Hidden Injuries of Coeducation"
Further Learning
Post-World War II Quiz

Post-1983
Episode 8.1: Introduction
Episode 8.2: The Expanded Federal Role in Education Reform: The Elementary & Secondary Education
Episode 8.3: Ramping Up Reform: The Rise of Standards and Accountability
Episode 8.4: No Child Left Behind: Still Leaving Children Behind?
Episode 8.5: Public School Choice: Charter Schools
Episode 8.6: School Choice Run Amok? Diverse Providers and Portfolio Management Models
Episode 8.7: Attacking the Ed School's Teacher Education Monopoly
Wrap episode
Further Learning
Post-1983 Quiz

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