School Leadership
Politics
Post-secondary
Standards
Heavy Truths
100

Smokey Road principal determined the utmost priority in making change at the school was to provide a feeling of what to her students? (p.1)

What are safety and stability? 

100
Education is a political issue because of personal, social, cultural, and _____ reasons. (p. 8)

What is economic?

100

In most countries, what is seen as the ultimate purpose of high school? (p. 11). 

What is getting into college?

100
the _____movement emphasizes formal, written, multiple choice exams for ease of grading instead of portfolios, evaluations, peer assessment, and other creative pieces not so easily quantifiable. 

What is standards?

100

Many potential students are deterred from school because of the burden of heavy ____ that accumulates and remains stressful many years after. (p. 16)

What is debt?

200

Teachers at Smokey Road could not teach students until they...

What is build relationships with them?

200

Which American president prioritized education reform and signed the "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001? (pg. 6 & 9)

Who is George W. Bush?

200

Students can be poor, sad, unmotivated, attend low-funded schools, and yet ____ are not destiny. It has been shown that creative approaches to teaching and learning have resulted in high achievement. (p. 24)

What are circumstances?

200

In many countries, a concern is that standards are too low in these 2 areas. (p. 10)

What are literacy and mathematics? 

200

This country has the highest incarceration rate of the entire world. (p. 22)

What is the United States?

300

Rapport is built, change happens, and students thrive when teachers listen to _____? (pg. 5)

What is what is important to the child?

300

One of the goals of NCLB was to "_____ _____ _____ ______" between socioeconomic groups (p. 21).

What is "close the achievement gap"

300

Research and experience show that critical factors in raising student achievement are the motivations and ____ of students themselves. (p. 24)

What are expectations?

300
Recent emphasis has been on this category of academic discipline (acronym has four letters) to prepare students for the world of work. (p.11)

What is STEM?

300

About 7,000 - close to one and a half million a year- of young people do this every day for a variety of reasons. (p. 20)

What is drop out of school?

400

More than a quarter million teachers do this every year, and more than 40% of new teachers also do this within the first five years. (p. 21)

What is leave the profession? 

400

President B. Obama's reform strategy was called "_____ __ ___ ___" which was a national program of financial incentives for school improvement that is driven by standards and testing. (p.8)

What is "Race to the Top"?

400

Economic recession, heavy focus on university completion, and national competition have led to the problem of many graduates struggling to ____ ____. (p. 15)

What is find employment?

400

The drab nature of ______ education does little to inspire and empower those caught in poverty. (p. 20)

What is standardized?

400

____ rates are increasing in young people and are being correlated to the anxiety and pressures of academic performance. (p.23)

What is suicide? 

500

When Mr. Holland was getting dismissed, what did he tell the principal about his decision to cut funding for the music program but rather focus only on reading, writing, and long division? 

What is the fact that pretty soon students will have nothing to read or write about?  

500

The business of engaging private corporations and entrepreneurs to invest in ed, selling products/services to schools, and running schools for commercial profit is called ____________. (p.13)

What is corporatization? 

500

These two characteristics were surveyed to be the highest prioritized to be qualified and employable after graduation, but are found to be lacking in many otherwise highly qualified graduates. (p. 19)

What are adaptability to change and generating new ideas?

500

One of the aims of testing is to increase _____between students, teachers, and schools on the assumption it will drive up standards. (p. 12-13)

What is competition?

500

It costs an average of $11,000 a year in the US to do this, and costs more than $20,000 to keep a young person in jail. (p.22)

What is educate a student in high school?

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