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HOW

WHY

WHEn

Problems in Education and SChool Social work

Problematic Areas in Education

Question of Quality

Question of Quality

  • National Assessment of Adult Literacy
  • 30 Million people in the U.S. are estimated to have below basic literacy skills
  • U.S. students continue to be out performed by students in other developed countries.

Equal access to Quality education

Equal access to quality education

  • Failed the attempt of Egalitarian Society
  • Studies have found social class to be the most effective predictor of achievement in schools
  • Family Background
  • School System
  • Jonathan Kozol
  • Pygomalion affect
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • White Flight

Confusion About the goals of education

Confusion about the goals of education

  • Teaching and perpetuating sexism
  • Sexual Education
  • Promote or Discourage bilingual education
  • Special education into regular classes
  • Prayers in school
  • Private school

Intolerable Working Conditions

  • The U.S. ranks last of all the major industrialized nations
  • Disenchantment with teaching
  • High rates of drug and alcohol abuse among students
  • Insufficient instructional supplies
  • High student to teacher ratio
  • Cyberbullying

Intolerable Working Conditions

WHAT

Strategies to improve Education

Increase Incentives for teachers

  • What are Incentives?
  • "Master Teaching"
  • Mentoring System

Increase Incentives for Teachers

Improve Curriculum

Improve the curriculum

  • In what direction should curriculum be improved?
  • Concerns Shifted
  • Annual Testing
  • Critical Thinking Movement

Allow parental choice of schools

  • Voucher System
  • Reasons for parents choice
  • Problem with parental choice
  • Providing funds to religous private schools

Parental Choice of schools

expand preschool programs

  • Expand the number of preschool programs
  • Positive effects
  • Huge Impact and Improvements
  • Things that are less likely to occur

Expanded preschool programs

Ways toward equal education opportunity

IDEAS

Things to help with integration

Integrate

  • Busing within school districts
  • Neighborhood schools
  • "Magnet" schools

Why does this matter?

importance?

some of the Things put in place for the poor/minorities

compensation

  • Scholarships
  • Tutoring
  • Assessment for benefits
  • Counseling

Reasons how equal school financing has declined

Reform

  • Wealthy Schools
  • Decaying inner cities
  • Property tax payers are unable to pay annual increases

Social Workroles

IQ

types

specialist

  • Behavioral
  • Mental Health
  • Alcohol and drug abuse
  • Violence prevention
  • Systems change
  • Program Research

What do they do?

counselor

  • They tend to help both families or individuals with specific problems. They can give advice and give people the correct resources needed to fix the issues
  • Example

What do they do?

group worker

What do they do?

advocate

  • Their goal is to fight for the rights of others and work to find the resources that they are needed
  • Example

What do they do?

Truant officer

What do they do?

Caseworker

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

-Dr. Seuss, from The Lorax

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