School History
Finland
School Funding
Charter Schools
Education in America
100
This person is the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction for Indiana
Who is Glenda Ritz
100
Students start school at this age
What is 7
100
School funding decisions are a state or federal decision?
What is the State
100
This New York based charter school was featured in the film "Waiting for Superman" and is run by Jonathan Kozol
What is the Harlem Success Academy?/What is the Success Academy Charter School?
100
This ratio is the Average Teacher: Student Ratio Nationally?
What is 1:30
200
This was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
200
This is the percent of people who graduate high school in Finland
What is 93% (which is 17.5% more than the U.S)
200
This is the avarage teaching salary for a teacher in Muncie, IN
48,000
200
The first charter school law was passed here in 1991
What is Minnesota?
200
This state has the highest graduation rate
What is Wisconsin
300
Money that comes from both the State and Federal Government. This grant comes with restrictions and targets particular programs such as class size and students with special needs.
What is Categorical Aid/Grant
300
True or false: the students take one standardized test at the age of 16 once they graduate from high school
What is true
300
This location is where most schools receive money from?
What is Property Taxes
300
These groups have been accused of turning schools into for-profit business models.
What are Educational Management Organizations?
300
Approximately how many students don't have access to the internet in school
What is 40 million
400
This act was influenced by the Soviet launch of the satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957. U.S. citizens feared that education in the USSR was superior to that in the United States, and Congress reacted by adding the act to bring U.S. schools up to speed.
What is National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
400
On average teachers spend this many hours in teaching
What is 4 (2hrs are used for professional development)
400
This is the amount of funding the state of Indiana has for public education (in dollars)
2.4 billion
400
He is credited with inventing the idea of Charter Schools in 1974
Who is Ray Budde?
400
Students who dropout of high school are this many times more likely to go to prision then someone who doesn't drop out
What is 8x
500
This is the 1983 report of American President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education. Its publication is considered a landmark event in modern American educational history.
What is "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform"
500
The avarage classroom in finland has this many students
What is 20
500
This is the amount of money schools receive from lottery taxes
What is 30 million a year
500
What percent of schools in the US are charter schools?
What is 4.2%
500
This is the percent of students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch.
What is 47.5%
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