In this chapter I like that the author discussed professionalizing in educational administration, he look at it from the point of view from Raymond E. Callaham that school administration fixes the background of a business person and that’s how management in school came to be. Callahan portray school administrators in the early twentieth century as capitulating to a business person mentality because of both public pressure and rewards that could be gained by adopting a status equal to that of members of business community. Even through recent studies suggest that school administrators had traditionally viewed their roles in business term all agree that school adminstration became professionalized around concepts of scientiific managament borrowed from the business community.
Fredrick W. Taylor believe in systematic management or Taylorism. He believe that the down fall for america industry stemmed from unsystematic organization and control of work. Taylor views became the focus of school and many public school leaders jumped onthe scientific management bandwagon with a vengeance. After reading about the scientific method and how schools jumping on the bandwagon it is portrait that his method brought more organization into to the school environment.
Ouestion: Do you think that schools are managed more like a business? 2) Do you think that the educational leaders should take a more scientific approach to figure out why school are doing so poor and what could be done to improve school by developing programs and experiment it in school that are failing?
The development of special class caught my attention. As the author explained in the book the state of Maryland and Pennsylanvia was strongly against special school because it meant that teachers would have to deal with problem children. I like the idea of special class because as the book explain it help to segregate children with learning and physcial disabilites. I think this was a positive outlook the for the educational system because it help teacher to seperate student with learning disabilities and therefore teachers would be able to focus on how to help those students improved on their learning problems.
Question: Do you think that special classes serve the same purpose as they were created for in todays society?
