what are the most important social & political developments that have shaped what we teach in schools today?
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The lack of funding for arts in schools is directly connected to the increase in school violence. That's just my layperson's view. Making the academic spectrum so monotone and unemotional denies students the chance to learn how to turn their most powerful feelings into tools for society. Emotion becomes art to learn from and heal with. Art programs teach students to love learning while teaching them how to deal with the emotional overflow of their life's challenges.\n\nI believe the lack of arts funding is also responsible for the incresed ADHD cases and drug prescriptions.
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Society values\nSocial customs\nRelationship between black & white\nEmotional insight (how the tale made you feel)\nPersecution & oppression\nThe difference between how people think and act then and now\nHow black people were restricted in everything then like giving up seats on the bus, not drinking out of certain water fountains etc to nowadays.
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not an easy answer, I would recommend reading "The Status Seekers" by Vance Packard, or the scaled down version (it is just selections from the book) "American Social Classes in the 1950's", edited by Daniel Horowitz
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Several key factors are shaping the UK at present:-\n\nThe UK has recently (within the living memory of a few very old folk) lost the wealthiest empire that has ever existed. This happened through two expensive world wars where much of our wealth was transferred to the USA. \n\nThe 20th century demise of the church in the UK has been extreme. Whether you are religeous or not, organised religion still serves a purpose in many countries in terms of providing some sort of social framework.\n\nThe caring society has flurished more in the UK than anywhere else largely due to the a couple of major oil rig disasters over-empowering the Health and Safety Executive plus the long term impact of weakening family structures bringing the duty of care to the front of many agendas.\n\nSo we lost our empire, our religion and our position in the world. The sixties saw a generation of students seeking love not war and caring for every flower that grew, followed by the Thatcher years where we saw the rapid growth of self interest as a philosophy. The "Yuppie" culture telling the young "just take what you can get and tread on whom ever you can". \n\nWe have completely lost our way we don't know what we are as a culture anymore or what our values are. Our polititians have the most liberal ideas about caring for everyone and everything sitting in their brains alongside their belief in grabbing whatever they can and hanging onto power at all costs. As long as their give lip-service to every liberal idea they pickup it frees them to act as selfishly as possible and believe they have a sense of balance. We have the least political polititians we have ever had.\n\nIts not the greed that is so damaging, we have always had that, although in earlier times we had the local vicar warning that it would make it harder to enter heaven with great riches. No, its the lip-service to caring, its allowing the HSE to create a great rules for industry and commerce but engender a terrible attitude in everyday life. Take an example, in a local school all thirty of the local year 9 science class incorrectly described mercury as a red liquid. It turned out that the chidlren had never seen mercury, and yet it is the most sciencitifcally used and usefull of liquids. It turns out that the teachers and technicians believed that mercury was so dangerous  the children should not even see it! A complete fallacy, but one arising from an attitude of over caring and a knowledge that we all have a "duty of care" (HSE phrase). So our children will find their science education a little bit more difficult than say a French child's because of our overcaring. One example in millions.\n\nSo to return to the theme, we have lost our sense of what it means to be English (not all of the Uk suffers as much), we don't know what to do for the best in any situation but overcaring is always an easy way out. We abuse this overcaring at all levels from "they have weapons of mass destruction" to "no, a policman may not wave his figure in a teenagers face". Its a great tool it stops us all having to worry what we are supposed to think. If you dont like the overcaring option you can always fly to the other end of the spectrum and blame the foreigners, another easy option.\n\nWhat England needs is to recapture our ability to take the middle path and be strong in that. This is not liberalism, it is what we used to be good at , they called it drawing a line. \n\nWe knew how and where to draw a line!
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Social Studies fair project is a big topic.  I am also not sure what grade you are in...so I am not sure if this is a good answer.  How about pick a topic (women's rights, discrimination, drugs, safety, world news, current events) and do a survey.  You can print up question sheets and have your friends, family, and classmates answer them.  For your fair, you can present your findings on a poster or something.
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I'll try and limit my answer to just one problem.  \nStudents today are not being held responsible for their \nown education anymore. Instead society tells them it\nisn't their fault they are dumb, the teachers failed to teach\nthem. We have drifted away from self responsibility to\nblaming everyone one else.  We need to get back to\nholding the students responsible for learning which means\nthey have to come to school ready to learn. They have to\nwork hard at learning.  There are many more reasons but you asked for just one.
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The higher the level of education a person or society achieves... the smarter or more educated a person or society becomes... the better they can recognize errors or think of better solutions to personal or social problems... therefore laws are changed... rules are changed and etiquette standards are change.  This can be called... social or cultural evolution!
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Make the dominant peer pressures positive.\nStrongly positive school ethos, engagement of school with pupils lives and experiences, involvement with the local community.\nSchools can be very influencial places that promote strong allegiances.
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The main one I can think of is industrialization. Following the Civil War, we witnessed the birth of corporate America and the making of Getty and Rockefeller. Fortunes were made in Oil and Steel.
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I don't think social change can happen through Party politics, at least not now. Congress is so polarized they couldn't order pizza together, never mind effect any kind of positive social change. \n\nI think change will have to come from outside, with popular opinion driving Congress, not the other way around. I think that's what's starting to happen with immigration, and to some extent, the war.\n\nBi-partisanism should be the way positive social change is forged. Unfortunately, that's not likely to happen any time soon.
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hmm...how about school policies maybe even the ones at your school like the tardy policy for/against it (I did this speech at my school and they actually changed it)
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Welfare and education reform.
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education to the world which promotes critical thinking and analytical reasoning without influence of political, religious, or any organization's influence. promote thinking of the world as one and people are not different by color, region, religion, country, or whatever type of label that we're taught to be important.  \n\nwhat political party, religion, or any organization would want to promote and contribute to the cause?
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:}\nNew social structures created by\nThe single parent family\nReduced  faith based communities\nremoval of prayer from schools\nless stay at home moms
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Isn't ANYTHING taught in schools anymore?
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The policy of HATE that they were taught oh so well.\n\nAnd don't forget the policy of 'change' without knowing what that 'change' is.
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talk about our new world order\nand what is the changed that happened to our life the last 50 years till now