Guided Response: one paragraph each if can
Liz2013
week5discussion2_1tf.docxOne of the individuals most identified with this neo-essentialist movement was E. D. Hirsch, Jr. In his 1987 best-seller, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, which became a manifesto for the back-to-basics movement, Hirsch identified 5,000 names, dates, facts, and concepts from the fields of art, religion, science, and culture that he maintained an individual must know in order to be considered educated.
Support for school choice came from parents across the socioeconomic and ideological spectrum.
Education vouchers are certificates issued by a state, school district, or the federal government for a specific sum of money, which a parent can take to a school of their choice and apply toward the cost of tuition.
Charter schools, publicly supported nonsectarian schools established by the issuance of a charter (contract) from the state department of education, local school board, public university, or other designated entity, gained increasing favor in the 1990s.
School choice Education Vouchers
If I could change the outcome of one of my chosen events I would choose___ because____.
I would not change the events or their outcomes. All of these were very important for the future of educational opportunities.
What would you say is the most important result of each of your chosen events?
I would say the expansion lower income families being able to get a better education.
These events are still significant today because____.
Title I schools are still very relevant in todays society, and the teachers that teach there often times do not get the credit they deserve.
References
Webb. L. D. (2014). History of American education: Voices and perspectives. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
Low-income and minority parents saw choice as a way to extend educational opportunities
Religious conservatives saw choice as a way to support schools that promoted a particular religious ideology.
parents saw choice as providing the opportunity to protect their children from violence or to provide them with a more academically challenging or enriching experience
Democrats opposed their use at parochial schools
Other opponents, including teachers' unions, also opposed vouchers because they worried that vouchers would shift money from the chronically underfunded public schools to private ones.
many low-income parents would not be able to afford to supplement the voucher
Both provided better opportunity for lower income education
Both had oppositions from upper class.
Money was moved around to accomodate both of these
