American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice

1 Assignment

• National Period Quiz

1 Peer Review

• Peer Assessment 1

8 Videos

• 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

1 Readings

• Further Learning

1 Assignment

• Postbellum Era Quiz

7 Videos

• 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

1 Readings

• Further Learning

1 Assignment

• Progressive Era Quiz

9 Videos

• 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

1 Readings

• Further Learning

1 Assignment

• John Dewey Quiz

6 Videos

• 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

1 Readings

• Further Learning

1 Assignment

• Depression Era Quiz

1 Peer Review

• Peer Assessment 2

7 Videos

• 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

1 Readings

• Further Learning

1 Assignment

• Post-World War II Quiz

9 Videos

• 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"

1 Readings

• Further Learning

1 Assignment

• Post-1983 Quiz

8 Videos

• 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

1 Readings

• Further Learning