What's the meaning of this?
Giving every student the same resources and opportunities.
What is equality?
For over 50 years, this has been the federal government's legislation for supporting and influencing K-12 education.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
Negative or destructive behaviors that can result in denying some groups life's necessities as well as their privileges, rights, and opportunities.
What is discrimination?
Placement of students into groups that are perceived to be of similar ability within classes, into classroom groups according to abilities and subject areas, or into groups according to programs of study.
What is tracking?
Saying "I don't see color in my classroom" is an example of this.
What is colorblindness?
Providing everyone with the resources needed to meet a goal or accomplish a task.
What is equity?
This policy placed great emphasis on standardized testing.
What is No Child Left Behind?
The most blatant form of educational discrimination.
What is the actual withholding of education?
Strategies, techniques, and approaches used by teachers in their classrooms.
What is pedagogy?
The values, traditions, world view, and social and political relationships created, shared, and transformed by a group of people bound together in a multitude of ways.
What is culture?
A philosophy, an approach, and actions that embody treating all people with fairness, respect, dignity, and generosity.
What is social justice?
This "revamped" No Child Left Behind and shifted more educational ownership back to the states.
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act?
This is the systematic use of economic and political power in institutions, such as schools, that leads to detrimental policies and practices.
What is institutional discrimination?
The organized environment for learning that includes what should be learned and under what conditions.
What is curriculum?
The way in which individuals receive and process information with the understanding that individuals think and learn best in different ways.
What is learning style?
One group of students outperforms another group and the difference in average scores for the two is statistically significant.
What is achievement gap?
Intended to boost both educational quality and equality by providing consistency of the standards taught at each grade level across all states.
What are Common Core State Standards?
When students perform in ways that teachers expect based on messages the teacher conveys about their worth, intelligence, and capability.
What is self-fulfilling prophecy?
Includes respect for human difference, physical safety, social emotional health, family inclusion, strategies to meet diverse needs, and a welcoming environment.
What is school climate?
This says that human beings possess 8 or 9 relatively independent forms of information processing, and each is a specific intelligence.
What is Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence?
Ideas that some children, because of genetic, cultural, or experential differences, are inferior to other children.
What are deficit theories?
Teachers "teach to the test" often reducing instructional time for subjects other than reading and math as well as cutting down on recess and PE.
What are the negative effects of the emphasis placed on high stakes testing?
The purposeful suppressing of words associated with race as a result of uneasiness with directly addressing issues of race.
What is color muteness?
These are a significant component of the curriculum that under-represents women and people of color.
What are textbooks?
Lack of congruence between home and school cultures, including different ways of using language that result in tension between children and teachers.
What are cultural discontinuities?