Welcome to the EPS 201/202 Web site. This Web site was established in January 1997.  We hope you find this information useful.

Professor Jeanne Connell, Ph D.     

Vita                Publications            Biography

Teachers make a difference in the lives of their students.  

EPS 201/202 seeks to engage students in a critical, integrated, cross-disciplinary analysis of the relationship between school and society. Central questions explored throughout the course are: Who should be educated? What knowledge and values should be taught? Who should control the curriculum and for what purposes? When, where, and how should education be delivered? Why have certain school policies and practices prevailed?

LIBRARY E-RESERVES http://www.library.uiuc.edu/ereserves/show.asp?iID=246&cID=2389

SEE  Overheads in left column for all prior notes.

What is the educational philosophy of teacher Jaime Escalante of "Stand and Deliver" fame?  Click hear to listen to a 3 minute interview with teacher Jaime Escalante: http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/jaime_escalante/jaime_on_being_a_teacher/index.php

FEDERAL INFLUENCE                       E.D. HIRSCH                          

JOHN DEWEY                             PAULO FREIRE            GREG MICHIE

 Du Bois          Brown v. Board             Brown Family   McLaurin                Ruby Bridges

Looking to volunteer in a local school? One option is Vis-A-Vis: AskVisAVis@gmail.com

 Click here to find an analysis of film viewed in lecture (10-16) "Off Track"

 

 

IMPORTANT LECTURE LINKS AND COURSE RESOURCES

Bitter Lesson: A Good School Gets an "F" NY Times January 11, 2006.  P.S. 48   http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/education/11education.html    

Links to Illinois State Board of Education School Report Cards Links

FOLLOW UP ON GREG MICHIE'S VISIT:    Greg Michie referenced this video about the teacher as hero stories "Nice White Lady"    a Mad TV spoof on movies  like Freedom Writers and Dangerous Minds.    He also recommended "Girl Like Me" (an Urban Academy student did this film about the standards of beauty in our society, she reproduced the doll experiment used in the Brown v. Board Court Case, this segment is located about 3 minutes into the film).

Film Clip on Urban Academy (3-25) 

How are state learning standards developed?  Who decides? Video on the decision making process in Virginia

nScroll down and choose Virginia: Defining History

CHARTS ON DIFFERENCES IN SCHOOL QUALITY 

Look here to check out the standards for the subject area that you are most interested in teaching:                                                    Illinois Learning Standards www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/

Student Film Kansas State University   "If these walls could talk"  How would Freire respond?

Greg Michie assessed this video about the hero stories:  "Nice White Lady" Mad TV Spoof on the hero movies like Freedom Writers, and Dangerous Minds

Learning Standards: "Testing Our Schools" See video clips, teaching history selection.

Latino Dropout Prevention Video http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june05/dropouts_4-26.html#

Website for URBAN ACADEMY   http://www.urbanacademy.org/

RESOURCE  History of Education Timeline: http://www.cloudnet.com/%7Eedrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html

Education websites of special interest:

FYI Illinois State Board of Education: www.isbe.state.il.us/

FYI Illinois Learning Standards www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/

To view Individual School Report Cards, go the Illinois State Board of Education site and click on Report Cards in the left hand column.

Cartoons for teachers: http://www.borg.com/~rjgtoons/edu.html