Vocab
Theories
Problems
Bonus
100
The learning of academic facts and concepts through a formal curriculum.
What is formal education?
100
The theory most critical of the tracking system which perpetuates inequality.
What is conflict theory?
100
The Supreme Court case that overruled the "separate but equal" segregation in schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
A major benefit to teaching at a Charter School like The Equity Project.
What is very high salaries?
200
The learning about cultural values, norms, and expected behaviors by participating in society.
What is informal education?
200
Instilling values of patriotism and nationalism is a part of this.
What is hidden curriculum?
200
The No Child Left Behind Act resulted in this practice in which the curriculum is geared toward getting students to succeed on standardized tests.
What is teaching to the test?
200
A major risk of teaching at charters schools like The Equity Project.
What is no tenure?
300
The emphasis on certificates or degrees to show a person has a certain skill or level of education.
What is credentialism?
300
Socialization is a _______ function of education.
What is manifest?
300
Self-governing public schools that have signed agreements with state governments to improve students.
What is charter schools?
300
Students in ________ (charter/traditional public) schools, on average, outperform those in other schools.
What is traditional public?
400
Formalized sorting system that places students on "tracks" that perpetuate inequalities.
What is tracking?
400
Learning to value individualism is an example of a _________ function.
What is latent?
400
Program designed to give low-income students an pportunity to make up the preschool deficit discussed in the Coleman Report.
What is Head Start?
400
The correspondence between letter grades and the achievements they reflect that has been changing (in a downward direction) over time.
What is grade inflation.
500
Cultural knowledge that serves as currency to help one navigate a culture.
What is cultural capital?
500
The labeling of children as low achievers may lead to this.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
500
The Common Core test question of "The Hare and the Pineapple" ended with this moral.
What is Pineapples don't have sleeves?
500
State in which the revenue for public school systems is highest.
What is California?
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