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Educational Autobiography
By: Sabrina Lake

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What messages did you receive about the purposes of your schooling from family and from school professionals?

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- An investment toward my future: Stability and good career
- My only option for success: School is the way to success
- A social norm: A requirement
- A measure of my worth: Higher learning merits my socioeconomic class
According to Reese 2007, a reason why policy makers tend to reform schools so much, is so that children of America can be molded in such a way that is acceptable; policy makers have a tendency to "Associate social ills as an educational problem."

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What was your relationship like with the knowledge in school that was put forth as official knowledge?

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- Personal experiences: A lack of multicultural curriculum
- Insightful concepts: Good and challenging experiences; contextualized pedagogies
- Fundamental toward my growth: Beneficial toward my social skills
- Disliked conforming: Discouraged my creativity

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In what ways was school congruent (or not) with your home, culture, language, religion, and social class?

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- Diversity complex: As demonstrated in Anyon 1981, school teachers exposed their personal biases toward who is capable of learning parts of the curriculum, hence, affecting the way they deliver an choose their content to population served.
- with culture: A need to fit in
- with language: Not socially accepted in most of my experiences with changing schools. Speak "proper English" was a common to hear amongst school staff and classmates.
- with social class: As discussed in Reese 2007, ability grouping was based ones IQ level; slow students were most common in urban schools.

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What significant reforms were put in place while you were in school, how were they justified, and what was your experience/perspective on them?

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- The behavior chart: The behavior chart felt wrong; it brings a shameful feeling if one is not thriving like the majority of class is.
- Pidgin slang to official language of Hawai'i : Once frowned upon to now an official language. This is a shift in acknowledging and respecting culture differences.
- Truancy: Lack of interest leads to more kids cutting class - truancy policy has been implemented in an attempt to increase school attendance.
-  Title lX: Protects people from discrimination.

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Cawdery (2016). “Standardization, contextualization, and the purpose of education in the era of accountability: Teacher’s decisions, perceptions, and pedagogical practices.”

Labaree, D. F. (1997). Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals. American Educational Research Journal, 34(1), 39. doi:10.2307/1163342

Lipman, Pauline. (2008) “Mixed-Income Schools and Housing: Advancing the Neoliberal Urban Agenda.” Journal of Education Policy 23, no.2 (March 2008): 119-34.

Pidgin now recognized as official language. (2015, November 13). Retrieved from http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/30515676/pidgin-now-recognized-as-official-language

Reese, W. J. (2007). Public Schools and the Common Good. History, Education, and the Schools, 141-158. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.

Reese, W. J. (2007). Why Americans Love to Reform the Public Schools. History, Education, and the Schools, 159-171. doi:10.1057/9780230104822_9

Russell, W. T. (2016, September 13). Column: Hey teachers, please stop using behavior charts. Here's why. Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/column-hey-teachers-please-stop-using-behavior-charts-heres

Title IX and Sex Discrimination. (2015, October 15). Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html