By volunteering in a variety of community settings, from nursing homes to child care facilities, students are encouraged to develop a sense of community and meet what is now a high school graduation requirement in some states. 

Author of The Pedagogy of the Oppressed that describes how he taught these workers to read in order to identify problems that were keeping them poor and powerless. 

Wrote the massive study- A Place Called School. He examined a wide range of documents that tried to define the purposes of schooling over three hundred years of history. 

The acquisition of the dominant culture's norms by a member of the non dominant culture. 

The acculturation of American norms and values

A 1983 federal report that characterized U.S. schools as mediocre, putting the nation at risk of losing economic and technological ground to other countries. The report called for renewed emphasis on core academic subjects and ushered in the era of "back-to-basics" education. 

Believed that local public schools were often weak because they functioned as a monopoly

Found that private schools were doing a better job educating students than were the neighborhood public schools. 

Has legal permission from a local or states school board to operate a school, usually for a fixed period of time with the right to renew the charter if the school is successful. 

A coupon, issues by the government, representing money targeted for schools. 

A specialized school open to all students in a district on a competitive or lottery basis. It provides a method of drawing children away from segregated neighborhood schools while affording unique educational specialties, such as science, math, and the performing arts. 

The practice of permitting students to attend the school of their choice within their school system. It is sometimes associated with magnet schools and desegregated efforts. 

Volunteered a summer teaching at a freedom school and decided he wanted to be a teacher.

A type of distance education offered through the internet. 

Courses, programs, and training provided to students over long distances through television, the internet, and other technologies. 

An educational company that contracts with local school districts, promising to improve student's achievement while making a profit in the process. 

A growing trend of parents educating their children at home, for religious or philosophical reasons. 

The movement toward increased private sector, for-profit involvement in the management of public agencies, including schools.

Promote clean air and water quality, healthy and natural foods, recycling, nontoxic cleaners, alternative means of transportation, expanded recreational choices, and opportunities for all students, and teach children how to promote energy conservation and sustainability. 

Schools that provide a network of social services from nutrition and health care to parental education and transportation, all designed to support the comprehensive educational needs of children. 

Teachers should be given more responsibility to reshape their schools.

A system of employment in which teachers, having served a probationary period, acquire an expectancy of continued employment. 

System that bases a teacher's pay on how well he or she teaches. 

A theory, developed through school effectiveness research, that emphasizes five factors: effective leadership, monitoring student progress, safety, a clear vision, and high expectations. 

Compare individual students with others in a nation-wide norm group

Measure whether a student has mastered a designated body of knowledge.

Publication that discusses the power of teacher expectations and shaping student achievement.