SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Project-Based Learning, Phonics
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Naep data can be used to compare teaching effectiveness of teaching for meaning versus teaching basic skills. Once students learn basic skills from phonics, students should reading and critical thinking skills to comprehend texts: civics: balanced linear approach is optimal as well. Begin with teaching basic knowledge (e. g. branches of government bill of rights) and then apply knowledge through community service, field trips, communicating with elected officials on matters important to them. Implications for educational policy: federal policy (nclb) constitutes and unprecedented level of federal involvement in education, nclb intervenes in state and local curriculum choices in favor of teaching basic skills and against teaching for meaning. Federal government is obligated to act when states fail to protect citizens: examples: Great depression-when failed to provide social insurance and welfare benefits to unemployed and elderly. Civil rights era when states failed to educate minority and disadvantaged children.
