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The Child-Centered Education Approach
The purpose of the school is to help students develop and learn in a kind and natural learning environment. Allowing children to learn through sensory and real-life experiences. Helping students to develop their critical thinking skills and to learn problem solving skills. Effective teachers understand their student's needs and provide knowledge to the students in ways that are relevant and meaningful to the students. -
Progressive Movement
John Dewey's research linked children's learning through society and school to be important. School curriculum expanded to include classes connecting school to the real world. Dewey's lab, created a curriculum around social occupations, so students learned reading, writing, math, and science skills in order to develop their experiences with their lives outside of school. When students are interested in their learning they find what they're learning to be relevant, and understandable. -
Brown V. Board of Education
The U.S. Supreme Court decided that segregating public schools based on race didn't allow all children to have equal educational opportunities. Therefore, it was decided that by allowing racially mixed classrooms it would allow each child an opportunity for an equal education and would help to improve academic outcomes for all. -
The Growth Of Vocational Education
In the late twentieth to early twenty-first century, career academies were formed as a way for high school programs to combine core academic subject areas with career-technical classes that related to occupations. Career academy students had better attendance, were able to earn more course credits, received better grades, and were less likely to leave high school. Students could take classes they were interested in that would relate with what they wanted to do for work after they graduated. -
No Child Left Behind Act
This accountability system required schools to have highly qualified teachers in the classrooms. All students are required to pass one hundred percent of the states' standard assessments and should be performing at their grade level in language arts, math, and science. Since this law went into affect, elementary grade levels nationally have showed consistent achievement gains in reading and math and there's a reduction in the achievement gap between students of different races.
