Please add ideas for possible topics to explore and present to the class. This is one of the ways you can write yourself into the course and your work:
* school violence
* college student debt
* school closings
* English only movements
* ethnic studies
* hip hop pedagogy
what else?
Here are a few topics I thought about in broad terms.
ReplyDelete* undocumented students in higher education
* No Child Left Behind
* Homeschooling
* Technology and Social Media
* Bullying
I need a facebook thumbs up symbol here for Mo's suggestions!
ReplyDeleteSome interests of mine...
ReplyDelete-Special ed programs and over represented minority students
-Struggling students under utilize school wide resources
-helicopter parents and their effect on their children
here are some possibilities:
ReplyDelete-increased instances of plagiarism/cheating among high school students
-debate surrounding teacher unions/tenure system
-rise in IEPs and 504s for students in recent years
-the new state-mandated evaluation instrument
-state move towards the common core
school discipline - suspension, expulsion, school police officers & juvenile justice
ReplyDeletegreat suggestions, keep them coming. We'll whittle these down in the 1/31 class session
ReplyDeleteto go off julies, arrest rates of minority students, im thinking specifically in nyc, where the second most common arrest is for riding a bike on the sidewalk, then students miss school for the hearing, have to pay a fine, some students are stopped while they are trying to just get to school, lots of layers
ReplyDeletealso the textbook industry
Drug use by students
ReplyDeleteDomestic violence
over represented minorities (especially at Boston College)
Teacher unions
High Achieving Testing in Charter Schools.
DeleteBoston School Busing (Metco)
Was Brown V. Board of Education right?
- Parental involvement in education and its effects on achievement
ReplyDelete- The effects of praise and incentives in education
- Teacher retention rates
- Should social justice education be a part of the elementary education curriculum?
- Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation in education
In addition to the ones mentioned above,
ReplyDelete- Why do students not receive equal opportunities in school, especially among different public school students?
- the role of peer pressure upon students
- the role of community pressure upon students
- the role of family pressure upon students
- What kind of competition among students is good?
ReplyDelete- Should schools consider ranking students test rather than percentiles?
- Why do men dominate the world of math and science? Is it intrinsic (Lawrence Summers's controversy) or is it the education system and stereotyping to blame
- How will sequestration effect education. Is this temporary or will it have a lasting effect?
- differing gender expectations in different school districts
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