Innovations in Public Education in New York City. City Almanac, Volume 6, Number 4, December 1971.

Autor/in	Dentler, Robert A.
Institution	New School for Social Research, New York, NY.
Titel	Innovations in Public Education in New York City. City Almanac, Volume 6, Number 4, December 1971.
Quelle	(1971), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bilingual Education; Compensatory Education; Curriculum Development; Decentralization; Educational Finance; Educational Innovation; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Program Development; Public Education; School Community Relationship; Social Change; Urban Education; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Kompensatorischer Unterricht; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Decentralisation; Dezentralisierung; Bildungsfonds; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; Programmplanung; Öffentliche Erziehung; Sozialer Wandel; Stadtteilbezogenes Lernen
Abstract	Five major themes mark the development of public education in New York City from its early nineteenth century beginning to the mid-twentieth century: (1) the effort to provide free education for all children through the twelfth grade; (2) the development of special schools and programs for gifted youth; (3) the development of programs for children with special difficulties; (4) the elaboration of a highly standardized grade structure, curriculum, and procedures for the mass of children; and, (5) a contrasting theme of experimentation and innovation. A strong impetus to innovation came in the mid-1960's with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which brought 60 to 85 million dollars a year for four years in to the system targeted explicitly for innovative programs in schools in poverty areas. Although the rate of success was not high, Federal aid did trigger a search for alternatives to the traditional school and stimulated the development of bi-lingual education in a number of schools, the introduction of the Open Door approach, and revised methods for teaching reading and mathematics in the elementary schools. Decentralization offers the potential for improvement in schools through the involvement of local residents as teacher aides and the effort to modify curriculum to fit the needs of the particular student body. (Author/JM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC