Useful Links

Poverty and Social Class

Anyon: Social Class and Hidden Curriculum of Work

Hidden Curriculum Theory

Poverty and the NCLB (Anyon)

Funding In/Equity

 

  • Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and
    Secondary School Districts:School Year 2006–07
  • The Funding Gap
  • Savage Inequalities Revisited
  • Campaign For Fiscal Equity (NYC)
  • Budgets NYC Schools
  • Stuyvesant Expenditures
  • Grover Cleveland High School Expenditures


    • Human Capital

    Encyclopedia of Economics

    Education and Income

    Wealth Distribution

    Academic and Non-Academic Support

    School Nutrition Bill (Huffington Post article)

    NYC DOE – Supplemental Education Services

    Student Support (academic and Non-Academic)

    http://www.afterschoolallstars.org/site/pp.asp?c=enJJKMNpFmG&b=854685

    The Afterschool Corporation

    Media and Consumerism

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maeXjey_FGA&feature=related (consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (Trailer)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaM9ggQZtgo (Soc 101-Media Influence on Children )

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KwCNOg0qs&feature=related (Marketing to Children)

    Kindergarten and Pre-K

    http://www.scholastic.com/resources/article/preparing-for-kindergarten

    Head Start

    Wikipedia – Head Start

    Universal Pre-K

    Meritocracy and Testing

    The Meritocracy Myth

    Meritocracy’s Crooked Yardstick

    NYC Yearly Testing

    NCLB

    Standards and Curriculum

    http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/

    Common Core Standards

    http://www.libraryjournal.com/slj/articleseducation/858731-346/schools_cut_back_on_other.html.csp

    Immigration

    The DREAM Act

    The Center for Immigration Studies

    Plyler vs. DOE

    Office of English Language Acquisition

    No Irish Need Apply

    http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2736/pub_detail.asp

    African-American and Slave Education:

    http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/April/20080423212501eaifas0.8516133.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Creole

    Inside Native American schools: A quick look

    http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_citizens_2_e.html

    http://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/pictures/select-list-154.html

    http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/c/ch049.html

    Civics Education

    http://www.cived.net/

    http://new.civiced.org/

    http://www.apsanet.org/content_4899.cfm

    Federal Programs

    Race to the Top

    Wikipedia – Race to the Top

    NCLB

    ESEA

    Pedagogical Perspectives

    Five Minds for the Future (Howard Gardner)

    Ken Robinson

    Dewey’s Pedagogic Creed

    http://faculty.knox.edu/jvanderg/202_K/Pestalozzi.htm

    Gender

    The History of Evolution’s Teaching of Women’s Inferiority

    Early Nineteenth Century Attitudes Toward Women and Their Roles

    K-12 Single-Sex Education: What does the Research Say?

    Historical Links

    http://www.localhistories.org/education.html

    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/179408/education/47596/Western-education-in-the-19th-century

    hornbook picture

    New England Primer

    blue back speller

    http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/B…

    http://www.merrycoz.org/books/spelling/S…

    http://books.google.com/books?id=o6MSAAA…

    Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America

    Jedidiah Morse’s Geography Made Easy

    Religion

    Documentary on School Prayer

    NY Times article on Teaching Evolution

    PTA Guide for Parents on Religion in Public Schools

    Politics and Education

    http://www.gop.com/index.php/issues/issues/ http://www.democrats.org/issues/educatio…

    http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092706507.html

    http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2011/02/obama_issues_budget_veto_threa.html

    http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/blue…

    STEM

    STEM Education Coalition

    NYS STEM Education Collaborative

    Teaching as a Profession and Teacher Unions

    http://www.pbs.org/onlyateacher/timeline.html

    http://www.nea.org/index.html
    http://www.aft.org/
    http://www.uft.org/

    NYSUT

    http://www.teachersunionexposed.com/
    http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=1309

    certification – NYS

    teaching in NYC

    contract