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The American Public School Teacher: Past, Present, and Future (Harvard Education Press; 2011) 326 pages; a portrait study of schoolteachers over the past half century that draws on surveys conducted by the National Education Association every five years.
Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development and sharing of guidelines and associated teaching ...
Pair by association - Parallel education - Parallel tempering - Parents' Rights Coalition - Parent-Teacher Association - Parentocracy - Parsimony - Passive review - Pastoral care - Peabody Education Fund - Peace education - Peak–end rule - Pedagogical patterns - Pedagogy - Pedology (children study) - Peer pressure - Peer support - Perpetual ...
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On January 1, 1644, by unanimous vote, Dedham authorized the first taxpayer-funded public school; "the seed of American education." [2] Its first teacher, Rev. Ralph Wheelock, was paid 20 pounds annually to instruct the youth of the community. [12] Descendants of these students would become presidents of Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard.
Inside American Education: The Decline, The Deception, The Dogmas is a book by economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell (hardcover 1993, paperback 2003, Kindle Edition 2010) that details Sowell's assessment of the state of education in the United States (both K-12 education and higher education).
Banks 2005 proposed that the culture of teachers must ;adopt specific principles if multicultural education is to succeed: Teachers' personal beliefs must support multicultural education. Teachers must knowledge that beyond the official curriculum, a latent curriculum promotes norms that may not be articulated but that are understood and ...
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life is a 1976 book by economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis.Widely considered a groundbreaking work in sociology of education, [citation needed] it argues the "correspondence principle" explains how the internal organization of schools corresponds to the internal organisation of the capitalist ...