History 1
Who challenged the biased accounts of US History featured in most textbooks, as well as African American students' unequal access to quality schools and was also the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Who augmented Jefferson's vision of the public school as the cornerstone of democratic life?
Horace Mann
Who were the two groups that established Indian boarding schools in order to assimilate Native American youth into Euro-American norms and customs? (Public Schools Should Preserve American Culture)
Christian missionaries and the US government
Who claimed to offer scientific proof that African Americans inherit lower IQs than Whites and that these IQ differences are virtually impossible to change? (The Bell Curve)
Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray
This president argued that the United States had room for only one language – English. Congress subsequently passed the first federal language law in 1906, requiring that those seeking to become naturalized citizens were required to speak English.
President Theodore Roosevelt
In what year did the children start reciting the Pledge of Allegiance?
1892
When was the NCLB (No Child Left Behind) signed into law?
2001
What term is used to identify "fear and distrust of all people foreign or unfamiliar"?
Social Xenophobia
In 2011, what was passed in California that, "granted qualifying undocumented students access to state-funded financial aid for college and thus protected their right to an education"? (Today's Deficit Thinking about Language)
California Dream Act
"A belief that the source of academic struggle is flawed and undeveloped genetic makeup, cultural background, and/or students' individual experiences" is called what?
Deficit Thinking
When was the first federal language law passed by Congress?
1906
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) viewed public schooling as the institution most likely to undo the Jim Crow segregation laws that had legalized racial segregation following the Civil War. What year were they founded?
1909
What year did the first public high school open?
1821
In what year did No Child Left Behind get replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? (Public Schools Should Ensure National Security and International Competitiveness)
2016
In what year were the majority of Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans began attending school? (Educational Timeline)
1920
Where was the first bilingual education law passed and adopted which allowed German-English instruction at the parents' request in 1839?
Ohio
President Obama estimated that if 16,000 students from this state had finished high school instead of dropping out, they would have earned an additional $4.1 billion in wages in the state over their lifetimes.
Colorado
Where was the 1st public school opened?
Boston, Massachusetts
In 2017, what states complained to the media and local officials about including material about Islam in the curriculum and allowing Muslim students to pray at school?
New Jersey, South Carolina, Florida, and Texas
In 1892, what country included shouting, "One Country! One Flag! One Language!" in its students' morning routines?
United States of America
What did Brown vs. Board of Education establish?
The court's role in protecting education as a right in U.S. society
What does our textbook claim is the fundamental issue with the myth of merit? What does it presume?
Basic equality of opportunity and resources and assumes that individual merit represents the only variable of consequence.
Why did Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray believe social programs were both costly and useless?
Because they believed such programs hurt those they intended to help and gave less intelligent people access to social positions
What was the Lau vs. Nichols decision in 1974? (G. Stanley Hall and Lewis Terman)
It set forth the constitutional requirement that equal educational opportunity demanded that schools offer help for students unable to understand English.
What changes occurred in the nation's education system after Russia's launch of the first space satellite, Sputnik?
More rigorous science and math and a continuing strive for higher academics