Curriculum
What students should know and be able to do.
What is a standard?
This case determined that segregation was unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Over half the staff at this federal agency have been fired or put on leave; leaving questions of funding and special education up in the air.
What is the U.S. Department of Education?
These schools, established to aid integration, focus on particular themes such as performing arts or science
What is a Magnate School?
This type of school is public, must be run by a nonprofit, but can be overseen by a for-profit entity.
What is a Charter School?
This reform effort attempted to create uniform standards that could be used with all students in the United States.
What are the Common Core State Standards?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that teacher-led prayer in public schools is unconstitutional
What is Engel v. Vitale?
The designation for the person who is required to pass on information about potential child abuse to a superior.
What is a Mandatory Reporter?
This policy required states to create academic standards and tests aligned with those standards; they then had to test students every year in grades 3-8.
What is NCLB?
Children don't "attend" this type of school; they log on and complete their lessons, sometimes guided by a teacher.
What is a cyber charter school?
This describes the curriculum that is NOT taught to students in school.
What is the Null Curriculum?
This Supreme Court decision declared that undocumented immigrants must still receive a free public education in the U.S.
What is Plyler v. Doe?
"Do you plan to have children?"
What question can you not be asked in an interview for a teaching position?
This law somewhat lightened the restrictions of NCLB,
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
According to this plan, students receive a certain amount of money which they can use to supplement private school tuition.
What are vouchers?
Many of these curricular materials can be found online, often for free.
What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?
This Supreme Court case ruled students don't leave their Constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door (and thus can wear politically oriented t-shirts, etc.)
What is Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District?
Nine times during an academic year.
How many times can you make copies of news articles or other copyrighted material for your students?
1983
What year did "A Nation at Risk" come out?
This person explained that schools cannot fix poverty.
Who is Diane Ravitch?
This type of curriculum "educates" students without them being necessarily aware of the training they are receiving.
What is the implicit or hidden curriculum?
This Supreme Court case affirmed that teachers have freedom of speech as long as their actions do not impede the normal operation of schooling.
What is Pickering v. Board of Education?
1957
In what year did both the Little Rock Nine integrate Little Rock High School and the Soviets send Sputnik into space?
The practice of educating and integrating children with disabilities into regular classroom settings.
What is inclusion?
The moment when a teacher has to choose how to respond, or not respond, to what a student has just said or done.
What is a discretionary space according to Deborah Ball?