Considering Emerson

I invite you to read Emerson's The American Scholar, but at least, look at a few points and consider what they mean for how we committed to public education:

"In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking."

"Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."

"Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees."

"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst."

"Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office, — to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame. Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year."

Equity?

See the news article and study about how race impacts school suspensions.

Debate over single-gender classrooms. . .

The evidence and ideology are clashing concerning single-gender classrooms. . .

Read this BLOG POST at Schools Matter. . .

Groups/Topics

Group Members	Topic
Paige Davies Khadijah Burks Katie Cockrell Ashley Tucker	No Child Left Behind
Monique Ositelu Morgan Calhoun Lauren St. Louis Meredith Yingling	State Standards Compared
Kristen Layne Margaret DuBose Whitney Becker Hannah Smith	Art/Music Programs
Spencer Beamer Mollie Jenson Emily McClimon Jackie Wornom	Single Sex Classrooms
Caroline Lambert Tim Baumann Bethany Prince Hilary Dahl	Teaching Methods

Can you "read" the philosophies?

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

The Foundation for Educational Choice

Center on Education Policy

EPIC

NCSPE

AFT

NEA

What are the assumptions driving this essay?

Racialized Memories and Class Identities - Thinking About Glenn Beck's and Rush Limbaugh's America

Henry Giroux

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So are US schools really a failure because of progressive education?

Consider this article by Alfie Kohn. . .

Social Equality?

Consider:

The United States of Inequality

Introducing the Great Divergence

The Usual Suspects Are Innocent

Challenges to learning styles theories

See this article, which raises concerns about learning style theories (a topic we'll address 9/13/10)

Teacher Assignment

Look at Teaching Inequality

Recommended

A major debate in education is teacher accountability.

Read this BLOG and the subsequent comments (in which I participate) to see what people think and say about teachers.

To consider. . .

After our discussion of "Eleven," I sense some strong interest among the class about poverty and education. . .See this Op-Ed from George Will and the primary study he discusses from Barton and Coley. . .

You may also find Parsing the Achievement Gap II (Braton & Coley, 2009) valuable. . .

And see page 4 in the most current SAT data

EdWeek blog referencing my work on "miracle" schools

See this from Walt Gardner:

Role of Research in School Reform

The failure of "objectivity"

Consider this piece by Alfie Kohn in terms of what we assume about and expect from teachers:

Professors who profess

EdWeek Op-Ed on National Standards

See the link on the Furman web site for my commentary on national standards.

Fall 2011 MWF Schedule

Spring 2017 EDU 111-01

MWF 9:30AM - 10:20AM

HIP 106

Day	Class Focus/Assignments Due
	google Drive course files: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5rkPGGYEGphVE5xdjV2MG5sOEU&usp=sharing
Jan 9-13	Week 1
M	Introduction to course; assignments (http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2010/08/fall-2010-edu-111-assigments.html) "Theme for English B," Langston Hughes “Eleven,” Sandra Cisneros (google Drive)
W	Katherine Christie, Berea Middle, tutoring Read/discuss Course Rationale: http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2008/02/welcome-to-occupation-teaching.html Foucault, “The Means of Correct Training” (google Drive)  Poverty and Testing in Education: “The Present Scientifico-legal Complex”
F	Groups formed, topics chosen
Jan 16-20	Week 2
M	MLK Day
W	“Banking concept”; Freire, Ch .2 Pedagogy of the Oppressed (google Drive) Topic 1: The Teaching Profession http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/07/topic-1-teaching-profession.html
F	Topic 1, Freire continued
Jan 23-27	Week 3
M	Gorski book club discussions
W	Topic 2: Educational Philosophies http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/07/topic-2-educational-philosophies.html “A generalized crisis in relation to all the environments of enclosure”: Deleuze
F	Educational Philosophies and Learning Theories (google Drive)
Jan 30 – Feb 3	Week 4
M	Poverty and the ideological imperative: a call to unhook from deficit and grit ideology and to strive for structural ideology in teacher education, Paul Gorski Topic 2 continued
W	Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/07/topic-3-historical-foundations-of.html
F	Thomas Jefferson on Education (http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/01/idealistic-and-elitist-roots-of-public.html) and “The American Scholar,” Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm)
Feb 6-10	Week 5
M	Corridor of Shame (http://www.corridorofshame.com/)
W	Topic 4: Diversity, Multiculturalism, Poverty/Privilege, Class, and Race http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/07/topic-4-diversity-multiculturalism.html
F	James Baldwin on education (1974) “What These Children Are Like,” Ralph Ellison (http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=575)
Feb 13-17	Week 6
M	Gorski book club discussions Poverty and education, discussion continued
W	Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
F	Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later continued
Feb 20-24	Week 7
M	Gorski book club discussions FACTS TRUTH ETHICS — In Focus LRC discussion Workshop: Group Presentations OWL APA
W	Group Presentations
F	Group Presentations
Feb 27 – Mar 3	Week 8
M	Group Presentations
W	Midterm Class discussion: Gorski's Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Gloria Ladson-Billings Email to professor BEFORE class 3-5 key points from Gorski with evidence (quotes and/or page numbers). Have key points in class to discuss in small groups before opening discussion to the whole class.
F	TBD Kohn: Feel-Bad Education “Well, Duh!” -- Ten Obvious Truths That We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring, Alfie Kohn
Mar 4-12	Spring Break
Mar 13-17	Week 9
M	Topic 5: Legal, Political, and Financial http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/07/topic-5-legal-political-and-financial.html
W	Topic 5 continued
F	Topic 5 continued Jenny Colvin, LIBR
Mar 20-24	Week 10
M	Emdin book club discussion Topic 5 continued
W	Black Folk Hate White Tears and Blatant Racism More Than Charter Schools, Andre Perry
F	Ruby Payne, deficit perspective http://rubypayneiswrong.blogspot.com/ Return of the Deficit, Curt Dudley-Marling "What These Children Are Like": Rejecting Deficit Views of Poverty and Language
Mar 27-31	Week 11
M	Emdin book club discussion Deficit perspective continued The Truth about Effort/Education?
W	Topic 6: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/07/topic-6-curriculum-instruction-and.html Seven ‘great’ teaching methods not backed up by evidence
F	Topic 6 continued Evolution as Design
Apr 3-7	Week 12
M	Emdin book club discussion
W	Topic 7: Current Issues and the Future of Education http://edu111furman.blogspot.com/2012/07/topic-7-current-issues-and-future-of.html
F	Topic 7 continued ESSAY DRAFT DUE/ WORKSHOP Sample APA essay with notes
Apr 10-14	Week 13
M	Hard Times at Douglass High (http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/hard-times-at-douglass-high-no-child-left-behind#) Current Education Reform Perpetuating, Not Curbing, Inequity
W	Hard Times cont.
F	Good Friday Holiday
Apr 17-21	Week 14
M	Easter Holiday
W	Emdin discuss and response due Cited essay workshop
F	Tutoring share

Apr 24-28	Week 15
M	Virtual Schools Report
	Exam
M	May 1, 2017 Monday 8:30AM - 11:00AM, HIP 106

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