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- 1. Education is…
- 2. Students...
- 3. Teachers
- 4. Spending Time...
- 5. Places For Learning
- 6. The Right Stuff
- 7. And a System…
- 8. …with Resources…
- 9. Success
- 10. So Now What?
Overview of Chapter 1 1.1 California Context
Are California’s Schools Really Behind? 1.2 International Context
Are U.S. Schools Behind the World? 1.3 Economic Context
Schools for Knowledge Work 1.4 Bad Apples
The High Social Costs of Educational Failure 1.5 Wishful thinking
Grade inflation and cognitive biases
Overview of Chapter 2 2.1 Diversity
The Changing Face of America's Students 2.2 Poverty and Race
How Do Students' Backgrounds Affect Their School Performance? 2.3 Health and Learning
What Can Schools Do? 2.4 Parents
A Child's First Teacher 2.5 How Does Education Change
Inputs and Outcomes
Overview of Chapter 3 3.1 Recruitment
Who Teaches, and Why? 3.2 Preparation and Certification
How To Make a Teacher 3.3 Retention
How to Retain a Teacher 3.4 Teacher Placement
Who Teaches Where? 3.5 Teacher Development
How Do Teachers Improve?
How do educators work together? 3.7 Benefits
The Benefits of Teaching 3.8 Teacher Pay
How much are teachers paid? 3.9 Teacher Evaluation
How Do Teachers Know If They Are Succeeding? 3.10 Tenure and Seniority
Teacher Tenure - Good? Evil? 3.11 Pensions
How Good is a Teacher's Pension?
Overview of Chapter 5 5.1 Where Do You Live?
Zip Codes and School Quality 5.2 School Choice
Should You Have a Choice of Schools? 5.3 Selectivity
How Schools Sort Students 5.4 At Risk
When Regular School Doesn't Cut It 5.5 Charter Schools
Public schools, different rules
Tuition, Vouchers, and Religion 5.7 Community Schools
Services beyond classwork 5.8 Principals and Superintendents
The Pivotal Role of an Educational Leader 5.9 School Facilities
What Should a School Look Like? 5.10 School Climate
What Makes a School Good? 5.11 Small Schools
Oops, We Shrunk the Schools!
Overview of Chapter 6 6.1 Grade-level Expectations
How Do Common Core Standards Work? 6.2 Academic Rigor
Is School Challenging Enough? 6.3 Literacy
Ensuring All Kids Learn to Read, Write and Speak English 6.4 STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 6.5 Tests
Why Tests Matter and How They Work
Tools for teaching and learning 6.7 Student Engagement
Making School Interesting 6.8 Arts Education
Creating in School 6.9 P.E. and Athletics
How does sweat and movement help learning? 6.10 Let’s Go!
What Makes a Field Trip Great? 6.11 Career Technical Education
Education for career opportunities
Learning to Help Others 6.13 Social-Emotional Learning
Education for Mental Health 6.14 Character
Can Values and Habits be Taught? 6.15 Civics, history and geography
How do kids learn about their country and the world? 6.16 World Language Learning
The Cure for Ugly Americans 6.17 Financial Literacy
Learning to Earn
Overview of Chapter 7 7.1 The State
The Buck Stops Here 7.2 The Federal Government
Small money, big influence 7.3 School Districts
In Charge of Most Local Schools 7.4 County Offices of Education
Oversight and Regional Services 7.5 Teachers' Unions
Don't Underestimate Them
California's Initiative Process and How It Affects Schools 7.7 Who influences education?
Politics, philanthropy and policy 7.8 Accountability in Education
Who monitors the quality of schools? 7.9 When Schools Fail
Interventions and Consequences 7.10 The LCAP
Annual plans for school districts
Overview of Chapter 8 8.1 Education Spending
Does California Spend Enough on Education? 8.2 Education Purchasing Power
What can education dollars buy? 8.3 Who Pays for Schools?
Where California's Public School Funds Come From 8.4 Prop 13 and Prop 98
Initiatives that shaped California's education system 8.5 LCFF
The formula that controls most school funding
Special education and other exceptions 8.7 School Funding
How Money Reaches the Classroom 8.8 Effectiveness
Is Education Money Well Spent? 8.9 More Money for Education
What Are the Options? 8.10 Parcel Taxes
Only in California... 8.11 Volunteers
Hidden Treasure Trove for Schools
Lesson 7.0
And a System…:
Overview of Chapter 7
The education system is layered, complex, and hard to change
California’s education system is big and complex. It has to be. It serves millions of students, and employs hundreds of thousands of teachers and staff, most represented by unions. It operates in layers of governance and oversight from local Schoolsite Councils to boards at the district, county, state, and federal level. Voters play a powerful role in California’s education system, too.
This chapter of Ed100 unpacks the system, layer by layer, explaining how it works and what happens when it doesn’t.
At the end of each lesson, please take the quiz. It reinforces what you’re learning and advances you toward your certificate as an Ed100 Graduate.
Here’s a quick overview of what’s in this chapter:
CHAPTER 7:
And a System…
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And a System…
Overview of Chapter 7 -
The State
The Buck Stops Here -
The Federal Government
Small money, big influence -
School Districts
In Charge of Most Local Schools -
County Offices of Education
Oversight and Regional Services -
Teachers' Unions
Don't Underestimate Them -
Initiatives and Education
California's Initiative Process and How It Affects Schools -
Who influences education?
Politics, philanthropy and policy -
Accountability in Education
Who monitors the quality of schools? -
When Schools Fail
Interventions and Consequences -
The LCAP
Annual plans for school districts
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