New Projects

1982 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-332

The Prescott Public Schools believe that the computer will become an integral part of the nation's public school curriculum in the 1980s. whether it be through the study of the social impact of computers, a review of the career opportunities, or the inclusion of a course in programming. They are meeting this computer challenge of the future through their Computer Literacy project. The project was launched with funding from ESEA Title 1V-C and the State Vocational Education Program, and it provides training for students, teachers, and parents.

Humaniora ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 996
Author(s):  
Dina Sekar Vusparatih

Individual Education Program (IEP) is a plan made by a team consists of parents, teachers, and other school elements. The purpose of IEP is to help students reach expected academic target. IEP is designed for students in special needs that not only defined academic target but also the methods for reaching the target. Thearticle explains the stages in defining IEP. The primary purpose of IEP is to give the same chance for students with special needs to have standard and public school education for other normal students. Through public schools, the students with special needs could interact and socialize with other students.


Author(s):  
Westry Whitaker

These are dangerous times (Giroux, 2010, 2015). In this chapter, the author illuminates and explores the founders' complex and often contradictory perspectives on public education and democracy itself and their relevance to technologically-mediated educational discourses. This chapter demonstrates the importance of re-politicizing and historicizing public education with particular emphasis on defending public schools, public school teachers and the very concept of public education as a site of democratic solidarity. The author approaches this topic with attention to the corporatized war on education waged by wayward conservatives and centrist democrats. The author explores these battle lines while juxtaposing their stance and value for public education with that of the nation's founders. The author expands upon this contrast by drawing critical awareness to the social, political, and cultural implications of information technology and the use of digital spaces to project our voices and faces loudly and vividly into the bedrooms of people never met.


1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Allen

Historians agree that the public schools played a central role in the creation of Victorian society and that in particular they were seminal in the construction of that “mid-Victorian compromise” which made the mid-century an era of “balance,” “equipoise,” and accommodation. There is further agreement that the cadre of boys produced by the newly reformed public schools became that mid-Victorian governing and social elite which was at once larger, more broadly based, more professional and, to many, more talented than the one which preceded it. The importance of the public schools in this regard was, as Asa Briggs affirms, twofold. They assimilated the “representatives of old families with the sons of the new middle classes,” thereby creating the “social amalgam” which, in Briggs' view, “cemented old and new ruling groups which had previously remained apart.” Secondly, the singular expression of that amalgamation was an elite type, the “Christian Gentleman”—the result of an “education in character” administered under the influence of Dr. Arnold. Arnold was able to do this because he “reconciled the serious classes” (that is, the commercial middle class) “to the public schools,” sharing as he did “their faith in progress, goodness, and their own vocation.” At first, the schools “attracted primarily the sons of the nobility, gentry and professional classes.” Later, it was the “sons of the leaders of industry” who were, like earlier generations of boys, amalgamated with “the sons of men of different traditions” in a broadened “conception of a gentleman.”


Author(s):  
John E. Taylor

Starting in the 1960s, the U.S. Supreme Court understood the Establishment Clause to strictly limit government’s ability to promote religion in the schools: The state could not lead prayers, it could not fund private religious education, and it could not teach religion as true in the public school curriculum. During the same period, the Court construed free exercise rights (in schools and elsewhere) in a fairly modest fashion by balancing religious rights against government interests. Beginning in 1990, the Court weakened the Free Exercise Clause still further. Today, however, the Court is moving to reshape the general law of the Religion Clauses, and the trend points (clearly) toward a greatly weakened Establishment Clause and (less clearly) toward a Free Exercise Clause that is at least somewhat more robust. The Court has also made clear that the Free Speech Clause grants religious speakers equal rights to speak on school property. These speech protections are powerful guarantors of religious liberty, even if no revolution in free exercise law materializes. This chapter surveys the constitutional law involving religion in the K–12 public schools, summarizing that law as it currently stands and offering tentative predictions about where it is headed. The chapter begins with the Establishment Clause limits on government religious expression in the public schools, then continues by discussing the free exercise rights of students and teachers, religion in the public school curriculum, and the rights of religious groups to speak on school property.


2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Sinclair ◽  
Laurie G. Kahn ◽  
Dawn A. Rowe ◽  
Valerie L. Mazzotti ◽  
Kara A. Hirano ◽  
...  

Sex education is not only a necessary component of public school curriculum, but it is also an important opportunity for students with and without disabilities to learn about their own development as emerging adults. Although comprehensive sex education is not federally mandated, many states and districts choose to offer some form of sex education to students. This article describes a five step collaborative process for planning to implement a sex education program to support the needs of students with disabilities.


1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 210-215
Author(s):  
Isaac P. Clayton

In 1972, the Maryland School for the Blind conducted a survey of employers in the state to determine how many blind persons were employed (and in what kinds of jobs) and employer attitudes toward hiring the handicapped. Former students of the school were surveyed to determine their feelings about the vocational education they received at the school and their suggestions for changes and improvements. Using this data, a pilot vocational education program was planned. Later phases of the project will include establishing the pilot program in the school and, based on that experience, setting up a comprehensive vocational education center there.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Gildijoney Dos Santos Lopes ◽  
Nilma Margarida De Castro Crusoé ◽  
Núbia Regina Moreira

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar resultados de pesquisa realizada, nos anos de 2015-2016, em três unidades escolares situadas do interior da Bahia. A pesquisa versa sobre a relação entre a prática educativa e a emancipação humana no contexto do Programa Mais Educação, sob a perspectiva dos estudantes participantes do referido programa. Para ter acesso às informações, foram utilizadas entrevistas de grupo focal com a participação de trinta estudantes que frequentaram o programa, além de um questionário socioeconômico com a finalidade de traçar o perfil dos participantes da investigação. Optou-se por utilizar dispositivos metodológicos do materialismo histórico dialético, por se tratar de um programa cujas categorias principais são de base marxista: educação integral e emancipação humana. Conclui-se, com este estudo, que a prática educativa do PMEd contribui, parcialmente, para a emancipação humana dos estudantes, na medida em que proporciona o desenvolvimento de habilidades necessárias para conscientização e racionalidade, sobretudo, por meio das oficinas do macrocampo Acompanhamento Pedagógico, quando os estudantes têm a oportunidade de ampliar seus conhecimentos. No entanto, contraditoriamente, de acordo com as análises adorniana, o trabalho proporciona o processo de adaptação dos estudantes ao meio social na medida em que desenvolve atividades socioeducativas desconectadas com o currículo escolar, fragmentadas, não planejadas, como intuito apenas de ocupação do tempo livre dos estudantes, sem o compromisso com a sua formação integral e desenvolvimento da capacidade de autorreflexão crítica.AbstractThe objective this article is to present research results in the years 2015-2016 in three school units located in the interior of Bahia. The research is about the relation between educational practice and human emancipation in the context of the More Education program under the perspective of the students participants of said program. To access the information, were used focus group interviews with the participation of thirty students that attended the program, besides a socioeconomic questionnaire with the purpose of tracing the profile of the participants. It was decided to use methodological devices of dialectical historical materialism, because it is a program whose main categories are based on Marxism: integral education and human emancipation. It is concluded that with this study that the practice of PMED contributes, partially to the human emancipation of the students,  insofar as it provides the development of skills necessary for awareness and rationality, above all, through the  workshops of the macro field accompaniment pedagogical when students have the opportunity to broaden their knowledge. However, contradictorily, according to the analyzes, the work provides the   process of adaptation of the  students to the social environment insofar as it develops activities socio-educational disconnected with the school curriculum, fragmented, not planned with the intention of only occupying the students free time without the commitment to their integral formation and development of the capacity for critical self-reflection. Keywords:  Emancipation. Educational Practice. More Education Program. ResumenEl propósito de este artículo es presentar resultados de investigaciones realizadas en tres unidades de la escuela situadas en el interior de Bahia, en los años de 2015-2016, sobre la relación entre práctica educativa y la emancipación humana en el contexto del “Programa Mais Educação”, bajo la perspectiva de estudiantes que participan del Programa. Para tener acceso a la información fueron utilizadas entrevistas de grupos focal con la participación de treinta estudiantes que asistieron al programa, además de una encuesta socio-económica con el fin de trazar el perfil de los participantes. Decidimos utilizar dispositivos metodológicos de la dialéctica del materialismo histórico, ya que es un programa cuyas principales categorías son de base marxista: educación integral y la emancipación humana. Llegó a la conclusión, con este estudio, que la práctica educativa de la PMEd contribuye parcialmente a la emancipación humana de los estudiantes, que proporciona el desarrollo de habilidades necesarias para la concientización y racionalidad, sobre todo, a través de los talleres de macrocampo seguimiento pedagógico cuando los estudiantes tienen la oportunidad de ampliar sus conocimientos. Sin embargo, paradójicamente, de acuerdo con el análisis adorniana, el trabajo proporciona el proceso de adaptación de los estudiantes con el entorno social en la medida en que se desarrolla actividades educativas desconectado con el plan de estudios, fragmentario, interrupciones no planificadas, con objetivo sólo  de ocupación del tiempo libre de los estudiantes, sin el compromiso de su formación integral y desarrollo de la capacidad crítica de autorreflexión.Palabras clave: Emancipación. Práctica Educativa. Programa Mais Educação.


2018 ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Rosen ◽  
Fred Stillwell ◽  
Marion Usselman

The objective of robotics competitions, such as FIRST LEGO® League (FLL®), is to create a tournament that promotes high-level engineering and academic engagement in students by providing the most rewarding experience possible for the largest group of students. To increase the number of students age 9-14 successfully participating in FLL® from public schools, and to concurrently increase the diversity of the pool of student participants, the Georgia FLL® organizers have implemented a number of interventions. These interventions can be grouped into A) Centralized policy decisions that impact how the program is run at the state level; B) Outreach activities that provide low-income teams with training and supplies; C) Promotion of LEGO® Mindstorm use within the actual school curriculum; and D) Partnerships with school systems to promote after-school FLL® robotics clubs. This chapter reviews these efforts and their effect on tournament diversity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Renata Pucci

This paper presents an enunciative analysis of the discourses of a group of teachers aiming to understand the ways in which the teachers elaborate the English teaching in the public school in relation to the prescriptions of the official documents and the work conditions. The theoretical basis for the enunciative-discursive analysis is based on Bakhtin and Volochínov, authors who theorize the social, dialogic and ideological language in the discursive formation of the individual. The text develops a brief contextualization of the scenary in which the teaching of English is established in public schools, including the trajectory of the insertion of the English language in the curriculum of the schools and the presentation of official documents that support the offer of the subject. The analyzes indicate that the official documents discourses organize the teachers’ view of English language teaching practices in the public school, guide the evaluation of the teaching methods and the appreciation of the work itself in the classroom.


Author(s):  
Jeffrey Rosen ◽  
Fred Stillwell ◽  
Marion Usselman

The objective of robotics competitions, such as FIRST LEGO® League (FLL®), is to create a tournament that promotes high-level engineering and academic engagement in students by providing the most rewarding experience possible for the largest group of students. To increase the number of students age 9-14 successfully participating in FLL® from public schools, and to concurrently increase the diversity of the pool of student participants, the Georgia FLL® organizers have implemented a number of interventions. These interventions can be grouped into A) Centralized policy decisions that impact how the program is run at the state level; B) Outreach activities that provide low-income teams with training and supplies; C) Promotion of LEGO® Mindstorm use within the actual school curriculum; and D) Partnerships with school systems to promote after-school FLL® robotics clubs. This chapter reviews these efforts and their effect on tournament diversity.


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