1635: Boston Latin School is opened, the first “public” school in the United States 1700s: Schools serve primarily wealthy, white males in urban areas. Rural schools admit girls and “infants.” 1820s-1830s: Common Schools; Charity School movement; Kindergartens : Comprehensive U.S. High School Present day: Charters & Choice : Differentiated Curricicula for different student groups (vocational, business, classic) at the high school level

 Traditional Public Schools  Independent Schools  Parochial/Religiously Affiliated Schools  Charter Schools ◦ Big Picture, KIPP, Achievement First, Bilingual Immersion, Magnets, etc.  Alternative Schools ◦ Therapeutic, Democratic, Expeditionary Learning, Community, etc.

 What are some ways in which we would want to think about how these school types might vary across types and, within types, across contexts?

 OECD activity to think about what schooling might look like in the future. Four broad categories, with infinite permutations: bureaucratic system, re-schooling, de- schooling, and system meltdown  For full activity, as run by the OECD see:

 Not Predictions  Not Visions  Not about schools  Not highly detailed

 Form a group of no more than five people, you want to be able to debate.  Discuss what you think the future of schooling might look like. Limit your discussion to the next years.  You should focus your discussion on one or two of the following five dimensions

 Attitudes, expectations, political support: how schools are valued, the roles they are expected to play in communities and society at large.  Goals, functions, equity: what schooling is meant to achieve.  Organizations and structures: delivery of education.  The geo-political dimension: local, national, and international environment.  The teaching force: who “teachers” are, what do we expect them to do, what are we willing to give them to do it?

1. Researcher 2. K-12 teacher 3. administrator 4. Parent 5. Student 6. Citizen 7. Government Policy Maker 8. Non-profit policy maker

1. We'll continue to tweak schooling as it currently exists, but the system won't change dramatically. 2. Technology will totally revolutionize schooling such that we won't recognize it fifty years from now. 3. School choices will splinter support for traditional schools and we'll see the growth of multiple, equally valid models of education and schooling including home schooling, apprenticeships, charters, and traditional schools. 4. Formal schooling will become obsolete, to be replaced by some system we can't currently imagine. 5. Other

1. We'll continue to tweak schooling as it currently exists, but the system won't change dramatically. 2. Technology will totally revolutionize schooling such that we won't recognize it fifty years from now. 3. School choices will splinter support for traditional schools and we'll see the growth of multiple, equally valid models of education and schooling including home schooling, apprenticeships, charters, and traditional schools. 4. Formal schooling will become obsolete, to be replaced by some system we can't currently imagine. 5. Other