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Other than those mentioned in this chapter, what
additional recent educational developments seem particularly important to you?
Why are they important?
1. Has the increased federal involvement in education
been good or bad for schools? How so?
2. In your opinion, in what respect, if any, has
education become professionalized?
3. In your opinion, how much progress has the United
States really made in providing equal educational opportunity? Defend your
answer.
4. What is happening in education at this very moment
that is likely to be written about in future history of education books?

UK parents cited anger, hostility, ignorance, bad
judgment and hatred as vices that they saw at least once a month on social
media. What classroom activity might you use that would help your learners
recognize these negative traits within social media?
1. Philosophers study ethical behavior in light of big
ideas such as goodness, justice, equity, and honesty. In what ways might you
use social media to help students consider one or more of these big ideas?
2. Dr. Blaire Morgan contends that social media is not
going away so parents and teachers need to maximize it benefits and avoid its
pitfalls. How might you use media within your classroom so as to maximize its
benefits?

What values could you defend as worthy for all students
to acquire across different cultures, religions, and so on?
1. How would you approach the teaching of values if
required to do so by your school district?
2. Why do you think Chi Mae thought that the Japanese and
Tibetan authors might expand students’ perspectives about the nature of the
world?

Charter school advocates often indicate that state and
district regulations are obstacles to good schools that help students learn.
What regulations are they talking about? How might those regulations prevent a
school from being as effective as it could be?
1. States match the licenses that teachers receive to a
specific subject or age level of students, which in turn matches the school
levels discussed in this chapter. Why are teachers not generally granted a
single license to teach students across the P–12 grades? What teachers can
receive a license that crosses all of the grade levels?

Visit two schools located in different geographic
communities (i.e., rural, suburban, or urban) and systematically record
characteristics such as the ethnic and racial composition of the students, the
income level of families, the size of the student population and teaching
force, the studentto-teacher ratios, the general school climate, and other
observable characteristics. What appears to be working well at the schools?
What appears to be problematic at the schools?

How different is the diversity in Kokomo, Indiana, from
where you grew up? Why do you think those differences exist?
1. What are the challenges for teachers when immigrant
students in their schools have a number of different native languages?
2. How would you categorize the instructional strategies
that Mr. Barnes recommends to teachers for working with English-language
learners?