Aims and Purposes of a State Schooling System: The Case of California. Technical Report. Getting Down to Facts II

Autor/inn/en	Brighouse, Harry; Mullane, Kailey
Institution	Stanford University, Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
Titel	Aims and Purposes of a State Schooling System: The Case of California. Technical Report. Getting Down to Facts II
Quelle	(2018), (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Public Education; State Legislation; Curriculum; State Standards; Academic Aspiration; Educational Finance; Economic Factors; Productivity; Personal Autonomy; Democratic Values; Competence; Interpersonal Relationship; Humanism; Equal Education; Politics of Education; Educational Equity (Finance); Measurement; Common Core State Standards; Individual Development; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Erziehung; Landesrecht; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Bildungsfonds; Ökonomischer Faktor; Produktivität; Individuelle Autonomie; Kompetenz; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Humanismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Messverfahren; Common core curriculum; Curriculum; Kerncurriculum; Individuelle Entwicklung; Kalifornien
Abstract	Evaluating a school system requires benchmarks of success. In order to know whether it is successful we need to know not only what is happening, but what should be happening. This paper interprets, and comments on, the aims California has for its public school system, and offers ways of thinking about the evidence in the light of those aims, and about how to set goals over the coming decade. California's constitution, adopted in 1879, requires that the state provide a system of public education for the purpose of the "general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence" and explicitly mentions the promotion of "intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement." The constitutional text does not provide much detail about the content or distribution of education. These important aims are fleshed out in California law. This paper examines how California defines what students will learn and the aims for how that learning will be distributed. The authors analyze the official state curricular standards to understand the state's aims for learning, and they examine aspirational statements as well as the financing system for underlying assumptions about goals for the distribution of learning. They continue by observing that the metrics used to measure the effects of the education system are highly imperfect, but should not be discarded. In conclusion they explore how the State could devise a set of goals that it would be reasonable to hold itself to over the coming decade, in the light of the evidence about where the facts stand today. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE. 520 Galvez Mall, CERAS Room 401, Stanford, CA 94305-3001. Tel: 650-724-2832; Fax: 510-642-9148; e-mail: info@edpolicyinca.org; Web site: http://www.edpolicyinca.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01