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Jigsaw Map: History of the American Education System (Hutt (GED) (One test…

- - - - No subject that everyone teaches means you make a system measuring skills nobody teaches
- - - - The GED narrows the scope of a high school education into one comprehensive test
  - - - Today the GED is used in many circumstances and is often used to shape curriculum anf determine what high school students should be learning
        
        Very adaptable, context-less test designed to be multi-faceted
- - - - 8th grade placement test
        
        required to attend high school
- - - - “Unfortunately, yet understandably, the Supreme Court has complicated this process by failing to give an exact definition of religion.” (Fuller,1994, pg 87)
    - - supreme court battle
        
        church VS. state
        
        state handles certain situations
        
        numerous court cases
  - - - The purpose of teaching is to obtain knowledge.
- - - - “ The magnet schools have enriched curricular offerings and provided specialization in performing arts and other fields. Some have used exams for competitive admissions, and most have provided access to extra resources.” (Minow, 2011, p. 825).
      - “Public school systems in Dallas," Richmond, and Boston used "magnet schools" with special programs to attract students from different races and backgrounds and thereby reduce, eliminate, or prevent racially distinct schools.” (Minow, 2011, p. 825).
      - difficulties
        
        “As a device to promote racial balance in previously segregated or racially isolated schools, magnet programs sometimes produce diverse enrollments while reducing diversity in the non-magnet schools.” (Minow, 2011, p. 826).
- - - - “Finally, the rhetoric of private individual school choice cordons off from public debate the very character of the kinds of choices — and kinds of education—school systems are permitting.” (Minow, 2011, p. 834).
      - First, not all families are informed and equipped to navigate the increasingly complex process of selecting among educational options, and some of the most disadvantaged students will lose out as a result.” (Minow, 2011, p. 833).
      - “Second, the ideal of integration-across racial differences, religious differences, and other kinds of demographic differences — grows more elusive as school choice enables new forms of student separation based on identities and aspirations.” (Minow, 2011, p. 834).
- - - - The author is claiming that the attractions of "choice" as an aspect to education imply that freedom and equality exist, yet the author believes that these qualities are absent.