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=Section 14 - Group 3= = = = = =Movers:=
 * Name:** Margaret Haley (1861-1939)
 * Basic Work:** Organizer of CTF (Chicago Teachers Federation), author of Margaret Haley Bulletin


 * Key Work:** Among her many accomplishments, Margaret Haley played a key role in the passing of statutes that helped centralize school governments. She led tax reforms against large corporations to secure funding for school programs. She also is considered a main player in the joining of a teachers union, CTF, with a labor union, CFL (Chicago Federation of Labor.)Perhaps considered her greatest achievement, Haley was the driving force behind the campaign to have Ella Flagg Young elected as the first female president of the NEA (National Education Association.)

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 * Why/How a mover?** Haley's work in Chicago led the way for teachers across the United States to unionize. These unions helped to secure higher wages for educators as well as pensions and tenure. The career of a teacher in America, once insecure and finacially unpromising, became more appealing particularly for women who traditionally were paid unequally compared to their male counterparts.
 * Links**: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Haley

=Shakers:=
 * Name:** Joel Klein
 * Basic Work:** Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
 * Key Work:** The chancellor estimated that roughly half the children in gifted programs now might not meet the new standards because they did not score in the 95th percentile or above on admissions tests. Mr. Klein’s overhaul of elementary school gifted programs also includes a new test to identify the gifted, the Bracken School Readiness Assessment, which gauges students’ understanding of colors, letters, numbers, sizes, comparisons and shapes. The Bracken test replaces the Gifted Readiness Scales, a test added last year because, officials said, it was easier to administer and would be more objective.
 * Key Personnel:** When Mayor Bloomberg dismantled the community school boards and consolidated power in the Department of Education, Klein used his new authority to make great changes.
 * Why/How a Shaker:** Elementary education was overhauled and a new universal curriculum was put in place. Social promotion was abolished, principals were given greater liberty, and Klein successfully negotiated a new teachers’ contract that brought city educators’ pay almost equal to their suburban peers. Bloomberg and Klein have restored a sense of hope for the New York public-school system.

Mr. Klein started trying to change the gifted system several years ago. For the first time last year, all students who sought admission to gifted programs had to take a citywide exam, a reasoning test called the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, and had to be evaluated by teachers on their classroom performance using the Gifted Rating Scales assessment. But officials said that change did not accomplish the goal of giving children across the city equal access to gifted programs, based on merit. Part of the problem, they said, is that the gifted rating scales gave preschool teachers wide latitude over how they evaluated students, and that some teachers were less adept at giving the tests than others.

http://nymag.com/news/features/influentials/16924/ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/education/30kindergarten.html?_r=1&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/K/Klein,%20Joel%20I&oref=slogin http://www.pbs.org/makingschoolswork/dwr/ny/klein.html
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=Trends:= When educating children with autism the Autism Society of America advocates the Individual Education Plan [IEP]. The IEP is designed tailor the child’s education to fit their particular needs. It has been shown that autistic children will respond will to structured class settings with abundant sensory activities. The structure of the class however, dose not constrict the students but the individually tailored educational plan will help to ensure that these children are experiencing growth and progress without comparing them to public school “standards”.
 * Name** //Autism on the rise in education//
 * Basic Summary** //With the number if autism case on the rise in the Unites States Schools have like with increased te attenting given to educating children with autism.//
 * Key Manifestations** Autism is a growing epidemic and it’s affecting all our school. There has been a recent upsurge in the number of children diagnosed with autism, from one in every 10,000 children ten years ago to one in every 150 children this year. Some say that the increase in autism cases is in direct correlation to the increase in special education classes that cater to this need. Others attribute the rise in diagnosed autistic children to the widening umbrella that an autistic case can come under. Autism can range from “mild” where a child my experience limited numbers of angry out burst or “odd” social behavior to the other end of the spectrum where a child seems not to communicate or respond to others.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec04/autism.html http://trainland.tripod.com/educatio.htm http://www.necc.org/
 * Key Personnel** //The New England Center for Children has an award winning program for students with autism. They are located in Southborough, Mass and a new facility in Abu Dhabi//
 * Why/How it's a Trend** The resent press given to autism cases and likwise many calling autism an epidemic supports recent attention schools have given as to how best support their students with autism.
 * Links** http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage

=Benchmarks:= http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/html/special/ESEA_main.htm http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg1.html http://www.ed.gov/nclb/overview/importance/nclbworking.html http://www.academicleadership.org/emprical_research/Assessing_Student_Achievement_the_Right_Way_A_Study_of_Practicing_Teachers. shtml Type in the content of your new page here.
 * Name:** //No Child Left Behind//
 * Basic Summary:** The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) implemented in 2001 was an important benchmark in history. The Act was created for students in low preforming middle and secondary schools after giving them high quality teacher training, more controlled curriculum, plenty of preperation in the classrooms so the teacher and administrators would have a standardized test to evaluate their progression throughout the year. This assessment test helped the teachers and administrators give the students extra help and let the parents have an informative test so that the also could help the child get up to grade level. The NCLB Act has throughly attempted to solve the issues of troubled schools by assisting the illiterate and generally disadvantaged students learn in newly trained and qualified schools.
 * Key Manifestations:** The quality of the the schools that the test has been implemented has been greatly modified. Students have experienced rising test scores therefore they are retaining much of their learning and actually understanding it enough to apply it. Partly due to No Child Left Behind the funding for education for schools in the United States has raised up to 59.8% from 2000 to 2003. NCLB rose the standards for public educational institutions.
 * Key Personnel:** The key personnel are the House of Represenatives who passed the act, Senator Hillary R. Clinton for advocating for NCLB, and the teachers and administrators who implement NCLB.
 * Why/How it's a benchmark:** No Child Left Behind is a benchmark because it is making changes across the Unites States and receiving positive results.
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