Chapter 4 Rethinking Education

This chapter was titled "The Development of American Schooling."  It was basically a history review of how schools have developed from being a parent's responsibility to the state's responsibility and now offer more variety of knowledge rather than just job-skill based.  Most of the chapters I find pertinent to my life as a future teacher, and I can connect ideas to my ideals or values as a teacher.  The chapters help me revise and update my ideas of what teaching is and how I can best facilitate learning for my students.  This chapter did not help me reshape or build on my ideas about teaching.  There was one idea that reinforced my thinking about individualizing education, but it was something that was also said in an earlier chapter.  
Near the conclusion of the chapter, it said one of the current issues in school is the diversity of students, with students from various religions, ethnicities and cultures.  According to the text, teachers need to be able to individualize their teachings instead of giving every child the same amount of information on every topic.  This does not fit their needs as learners.  A students will excel in some subjects and struggle and need more attention in others.  This will be different for every learner.  I do agree that technology will help individualize students education.  It makes information more accessible to the students, instead of having them all go directly through the teacher whenever they need information.  I can have a class of 15 students in a computer lab, having each of them play a game I picked out especially to help them develop skills in areas they are lacking, like reading comprehension, or fractions in math. 
However, the idea the opportunity technology gives to individualize information was already brought up in class and in the book.  This was not even the main point of the chapter.  It was generally to outline the history of the evolution of school.  I hope the group this week does well in their presentation so I can connect how the evolution is important to my future teaching.