School of thought

(noun)

A school of thought is a collection or group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook regarding a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, cultural movement, or art movement.

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Examples of School of thought in the following topics:

  • Fours Schools of Economic Thought: Classical, Marxian, Keynesian, and the Chicago School.

    • Mainstream modern economics can be broken down into four schools of economic thought: classical, Marxian, Keynesian, and the Chicago School.
    • Throughout the history of economic theory, several methods for approaching the topic are noteworthy enough, and different enough from one another, to be distinguished as particular 'schools of economic thought. ' While economists do not always fit into particular schools, especially in modern times, classifying economists into a particular school of thought is common.
    • Mainstream modern economics can be broken down into four schools of economic thought:
    • A final school of economic thought, the Chicago School of economics, is best known for its free market advocacy and monetarist ideas.
    • The Marxist school of economic thought comes from the work of German economist Karl Marx.

  • Delegated Powers

    • The delegated powers are a list of items found in the U.S.
    • The delegated powers, also called enumerated powers, are a list of items found in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S.
    • One school of thought is called "strict constructionism."
    • Another school of thought is referred to as "loose constructionism."
    • Compare and contrast the "strict constructionists" and "loose constructionists" schools of thought of the Constitution

  • Organization of Interest Groups

    • Organizations may also have Special Interest Groups which are normally focused on a mutual interest or shared characteristic of a subset of members of the organization.
    • They do this by acting as a counterweight to undue concentrations of power.
    • Under neo-pluralism, a concept of political communities developed that is more similar to the British form of government
    • Neo-Pluralism: This is based on the concept of political communities in that pressure groups and other similar bodies are organised around a government department and its network of client groups.
    • The members of this network co-operate during the policy making process.

  • Litigating for Equality After World War II

    • Board of Education (1954), which helped integrate public schools.
    • The decision led to the legal integration of public schools.
    • The states represented a diversity of situations ranging from required school segregation to optional school segregation.
    • Many white people in southern states protested integration, and legislators thought up creative ways to get around the ruling.
    • A 1959 rally in Little Rock AK protests the integration of the high school.

  • The Nineteenth Century

    • Associated with industrialism and capitalism, the 19th century looms large in the history of economic policy and economic thought.
    • However, these economists were divided and did not make up a unified group of thought.
    • The new ideas were that of the Marginalist school.
    • This current of thought was not united.
    • The main written work of this school was Walras' Elements of Pure Economics.

  • The No Child Left Behind Act

    • If a school misses its AYP target for a fourth consecutive year, the school is labeled as requiring "corrective action," which may involve wholesale replacement of staff, introduction of a new curriculum, or extending the amount of time students spend in class.
    • A fifth year of failure results in planning to restructure the school; the plan is implemented if the school fails to hit its AYP targets for the sixth year in a row.
    • Common options include closing the school, turning the school into a charter school, hiring a private company to run the school, or asking the state office of education to run the school directly.
    • Supporters of the NCLB claim one of the strong positive points of the bill is the increased accountability that is required of schools and teachers.
    • Opponents of this law say that the punishments hurt the schools and do not contribute to the improvement of student education.

  • Education Policy

    • Government supported, free public schools was introduced after the revolution, and expanded in the 19th century as a result of the efforts of men like Horace Mann and Booker T.
    • By 1910, 72 percent of children were attending school.
    • The year of 1910 also saw the first true high schools.
    • In 2008, the high school graduation rate was 77%, below that of most developed countries.
    • Supreme Court ruling that school funding was not a matter of the U.S.

  • Brown v. Board of Education and School Integration

    • Board of Education was a Supreme Court case which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
    • The plaintiffs were 13 Topeka parents who, on behalf of their 20 children, called for the school district to reverse its policy of racial segregation.
    • Brown, whose daughter Linda had to walk six blocks to her school bus stop to ride to Monroe Elementary, her segregated black school one mile away, while Sumner Elementary, a white school, was only seven blocks from her house.
    • Eventually, the key decision of the Court was that even if segregated black and white schools were of equal quality in facilities and teachers, segregation by itself was socially and psychologically harmful to black students and, therefore, unconstitutional.
    • This aspect was vital because the question was not whether the schools were "equal," which under Plessy they nominally should have been, but whether the doctrine of separate was constitutional.

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    • In 1973, Allan Bakke, a 33-year-old white male, applied to 12 medical schools.
    • He had been a National Merit Scholar in high school and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a GPA of 3.51.
    • All 12 schools rejected his application, including the University of California, Davis School of Medicine .
    • The school had 100 seats available to applicants, 16 of which were specifically for "Blacks," "Asians," "Chicanos," and "American Indians" under an affirmative action program.
    • Bakke was adjudicated as a result of the 1970's admissions policies of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.

  • Education Policy

    • Education policy refers to the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems.
    • Examples of areas subject to debate in education policy, include school size, class size, school choice, school privatization, tracking, teacher education and certification, teacher pay, teaching methods, curricular content, graduation requirements, school infrastructure investment, and the values that schools are expected to uphold and model.
    • Important researchers are affiliated with departments of psychology , economics , sociology , and human development , in addition to schools and departments of education or public policy.
    • The primary functions of the Department of Education are to "establish policy for, administer and coordinate -most federal assistance to education, collect data on US schools, and to enforce federal educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights. " However, the Department of Education does not establish schools or colleges.
    • This has been left to state and local school districts.