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Miscellaneous
100
Approximately 29.5% of teachers with this type of student have proper training.
What is a Limited English Proficiency (LEP) student
100
This movement resulted in an increasingly diverse US student population. globalization, or immigration act of 1965
What is globalization, or the Immigration Act of 1965?
100
This group of ______ Americans students were stereotyped as model minority students.
What are Asian American students?
100
As of 2003, the same number of native and foreign born people achieved at least this level of degree.
What is graduate school?
200
For the second year in a row, this college was ranked as the most diverse school in the country.
What is Rutgers?
200
This act provides that no state shall fail “to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal participation…in its instructional programs.”
What is the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974?
200
This makes it difficult for Latino parents to help their children with their school work, and to communicate with their children’s school.
What is a language barrier?
200
The six major goals of president Clinton’s Executive Order for American Indian and Alaska Native Education.
What are improved reading and mathematics; increase high school completion and post-secondary attendance rates; reduce poverty and substance abuse; create strong, safe, and drug free school environments; improve science education; expand educational technology?
300
The percentage of Chinatown residents in New York/Boston who had not attended secondary school.
What is roughly 85%?
300
This act was the most important piece of legislation supporting self determination for Indian Americans.
What is the 1975 Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act?
300
The term the textbook uses to describe replacing “non-American” cultures with an American culture and replacing the language of the home with English.
What is deculturalization?
300
This type of graduate school has seen an increase in the number of seats for first year students from 1993-2008, but a decrease in the percentage and number of black and Mexican-American students accepted.
What is Law School?
400
The percentage of students in this ethnicity enrolled in k-12 from 1988-2008 increased by 10.7%.
What is Hispanic American?
400
This U.S. District Court case that argued for segregation because of the special educational needs of Mexican Americans.
What is Mendez et al. vs. Westminster School district of Orange County?
400
This law bans discrimination based on “race, color, or national origin” in “any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
What is Title VI?
400
The two methods that education was used for as a way of social control regarding Mexican families and their children.
What are segregation and deny the knowledge necessary to protect its political and economic rights and to economically advance in society?
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