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Day 1 - Topic Lecture
Day 1 - Topic Lecture
1. Objective Education - teacher telling, lecturing and student absorbing, taking notes
2. Constructive Education - collaborative and engaging environment between teacher
and student with equal interaction, teaching each other
Definitions
● Public school - funded by the government/public taxes and must comply with all federal
standards, most common schools are public
● Private school - doesn’t necessarily receive federal funds and are free from federal
standards, so they can create their own standards and curriculum, admit students
however they want, require tuition to attend, and may have a religious background
● Magnet school - concentrate on a particular topic of education (the arts, STEM) with
often competitive entrance requirements (lottery, application) but must comply with
federal diversity enhancement policies such as transportation to school
● Charter school - built with a specific “charter” or mission, empowered by the federal
government to meet that goal and have more accountability to perform better and have
higher test scores, but subject to less government restrictions as to how they carry out
education (and currently have no diversity enhancement policies or regulation of court-
ordered bussing)
○ Can be for-profit (by a company), but less common because they often failed, or
non-profit (community localized mission), which is more common
○ Seen as problematic in current administration under Betsey deVos, a huge
proponent of a free-market approach to education, with school choice and
vouchers that let you choose school
○ Charter schools are not inherently unequal; some are good and some are
terrible. This lack of cohesion has created problems, including court cases