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A Persistent Quandary: The Rural School Improvement Project, 1953-1957, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries, Amanda L. Hoover
A Persistent Quandary: The Rural School Improvement Project, 1953-1957, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries, Amanda L. Hoover
Richard E. Day
Berea College's Rural School Improvement Project worked directly with more than 5,000 children and 63 teaching fellows in 39 different schools over 13 counties, and one independent school district, involving 10 county school supervisors. Project estimates claimed an indirect impact on approximately 45,000 children within the RSIP school districts. The RSIP represented the thinking of national leaders of rural education in the 1950s who promoted improved administration of the schools combined with an active community engagement program based on “full respect for human personality” and “shared judgments.” Following so many decades of poverty and isolation, it is no easy task …
First In Reform: The Adoption Of Common Core State Standards In Kentucky, Richard E. Day
First In Reform: The Adoption Of Common Core State Standards In Kentucky, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
On February 11, 2010, in an unprecedented joint meeting, the chairs of the Kentucky Board of Education, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the Education Professional Standards Board signed a resolution directing their respective agencies to implement the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts and mathematics. This act formalized Kentucky’s commitment to integrate the nascent standards into the state’s public education system – the first state to do so. This article will trace the antecedents to Kentucky’s adoption of the standards as one expression of the late 20th century/early 21st century “corporate school reform movement” as manifested in the …
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Jo Ann G. Ewalt
Education Reform In Kentucky: Just What The Court Ordered, Richard E. Day, Jo Ann G. Ewalt
Richard E. Day
No abstract provided.
A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy And The Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries
A Southern Progressive: M. A. Cassidy And The Lexington Schools, 1886-1928, Richard E. Day, Lindsey N. Devries
Richard E. Day
The 42-year career of M. A. Cassidy exemplifies the transition of public school leadership in Kentucky from non-educators who held religious-political ideologies to professional progressive educators who sought to make Kentucky schools more efficient through expertise and scientific management. This concept was fully adopted in Section 183 of the Kentucky Constitution (1891) which required the General Assembly to “provide for an efficient system of common schools throughout the state.” Confident that professional educators were best suited to devise solutions to social problems, and justified by the twin notions of equality of educational opportunity and meritocracy, Cassidy was part of a …
Bert Combs And The Council For Better Education: Catalysts For School Reform, Richard E. Day
Bert Combs And The Council For Better Education: Catalysts For School Reform, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
A history of the beginnings of the Council for Better Education and their successful litigation, Rose v Council for Better Education. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, published continuously since 1903, is among the oldest historical journals in America but continues to provide fresh perspectives on the history of Kentucky and its people. The Register includes the work of leading scholars on the commonwealth but is widely accessible to general readers interested in Kentucky history. Published quarterly, it is a benefit of Kentucky Historical Society membership. Leading scholars whose articles have appeared in the Register include James A. Ramage, …
Each Child, Every Child., Richard E. Day
Each Child, Every Child., Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
Dr Day was was invited to present at a peer-reviewed international symposium on education reform. This presentation puts the struggle for adequately funded public schools into an historical context, focusing on the Kentucky Supreme Court’s decision in Rose v. Council for Better Education.
Lowering State's Educatioon Standards A Bad Idea, Richard E. Day
Lowering State's Educatioon Standards A Bad Idea, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
Low expectations are much worse than high expectations. Low expectations are a recipe for low performance. For a principal, low expectations remove the need for results. For a teacher, it is an invitation to ease up and allow a certain percentage of hard-to-teach students to fail; and students always do better when teachers really try. Motivation is important in any human endeavor, and that includes teaching. What gets inspected gets respected. Reasonable accountability systems, applied humanely, give the public useful information about the performance of schools without harming children in the process. In its present form, NCLB is not that …
Appendix A: Primary Sources, Richard E. Day
0.1_Introductory Material 1, Richard E. Day
Appendix I: Cases Related To School Finance And Equity, Richard E. Day
Appendix I: Cases Related To School Finance And Equity, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
No abstract provided.
Appendix D: Council Documents, Richard E. Day
Appendix D: Council Documents, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
List of Council Documents reviewed
Appendix B: Bibliography, Richard E. Day
0.2_Introductory Material 2, Richard E. Day
0.2_Introductory Material 2, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
Acknowledgements, Table of Contents, List of Figures, Note ot Readers
Appendix C: Council For Better Education: Chronology Of Events, Richard E. Day
Appendix C: Council For Better Education: Chronology Of Events, Richard E. Day
Richard E. Day
Council for Better Education: Chronology of Events