Teachers in this city recently went on strike to protest hiring and teacher evaluation standards perceived as unfair.
What is Chicago?
100
This is a type of public school run by a private entity and freed from many of the typical requirements.
What is a charter school?
100
This is a strategy for combating racial segregation in schools first employed during the 1970's.
What is busing?
100
Led by Horace Mann, this movement is one of the earliest American struggles for free public schools.
What is the common school movement?
200
This is the title of Justin Bieber's first single.
What is 'One Time'?
200
This proposed law seeks to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants through access to higher education.
What is the DREAM Act?
200
Run by Geoffrey Canada, this successful New York City organization offers charter schooling and community programs, including neonatal care.
What is the Harlem Children's Zone?
200
This Supreme Court case established the doctrine of 'separate but equal' schooling, giving legal protection to the continuation of segregated schooling.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
First conceived of around the start of the 20th century, this type of school offered a wide range of classes and tracks in order to educate many different students in the same place.
What is the comprehensive high school?
300
Justin Bieber is way better than this other boy band.
What is One Direction?
300
This California Ballot initiative recently increased taxes and promises to raise $6 billion in new revenue over the next 10 years.
What is Proposition 30?
300
This 1970's California ballot initiative capped property taxes and limited how much money could be raised for things like public schools.
What is Proposition 13?
300
The difference in test scores between poor and wealthy students and between students of color and white students is known as this.
What is the educational equity gap?
300
This 1647 Massachusetts law was one of the earliest requirements of some form of public education.
What is the 'Old Deluder Satan' law.
400
The name of Justin Bieber's mother.
What is Patricia Mallette?
400
This type of law provides parents with the ability to vote on closing failing public schools.
What is a parent trigger law?
400
According to the original No Child Left Behind bill, all schools had to reach this standard by 2014.
What is proficiency in both math and reading on state tests?
400
An admissions system in which some advantage is conferred on groups of people.
What is affirmative action?
400
This Supreme Court case ended the ability for states to create school integration plans that incorporated multiple school districts if not every school district had an obvious history of discrimination.
What is Milliken v. Bradley?
500
This is Justin Bieber's middle name.
What is Drew?
500
This type of system ties teachers' salaries to their evaluations.
What is merit pay?
500
This law mandated yearly student testing in school and set benchmarks that all schools must meet.
What is No Child Left Behind?
500
He wrote the majority opinion in Brown I, declaring that 'separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.'
Who is Justice Marshall?
500
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the purpose of schooling (according to Professor David Labaree) shifted from building the republic to promoting social ______?