Durham
Contexts
Terms
Governance
Segregation Matters
100
Name of the large bronze bull in downtown Durham
What is Major?
100
Percent difference of SAT test takers who scored 1300 or higher, by income group between students of families in the bottom 20% income group and the top 20% income group (within 2%).
What is ~15%?
100
Researcher Gary Orfield described this as a self-perpetuating system in which inequality is transferred from each generation to the next.
Who is segregation?
100
2000-2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act required extensive assessment and reporting in public schools
What is No Child Left Behind?
100
Black students in the South are __________ segregated than they were in l968
What is far less?
But Black students are far more segregated than they were at the high point of desegregation in the 1980s.
200
Honorific name for Parrish Street in Durham
What is Parrish St?
200
Constitutional amendment that says what isn't governed by the Constitution is a state's issue.
What is the 10th Amendment?
200
Percentage of students educated in public schools in the US (within 2 percentage points).
What is 90%
200
Public school model initially designed to desegregate schools, these schools feature a specialized curriculum intended to draw students/families to the school.
What is a magnet school?
200
This image describes a model of school segregation:
What is in-school segregation?
300
Durham native who graduated from Hillside High School, whose murals appear around Durham and whose family home is on the National Historic Register.
Who is Pauli Murray?
300
Almost half of US K-12 students are Black, Hispanic, or AAPI compared to ______ % teachers.
What is 25%?
300
Term that describes lessons learned in classrooms that isn't a formal/explicit part of what gets taught.
What is hidden curriculum?
300
School choice model that facilitates students' enrollment in private school
What is the Voucher program?
300
Name of the #1 or #2 most segregated city in the US per the 2023 divergence ranking.
What is the Detroit, MI or Newark, NJ?
400
Number of the highway that cut through Durham's Hayti neighborhood.
What is Highway 147?
400
This practice started at the same time as the arrival of Puritans in (current-day) Massachusetts.
What is the North American Slave Trade?
400
Schools remain highly segregated by race and class, in part because of the segregation in _____________, which largely determine where students enroll.
What is neighborhoods?
400
A third of this type of school in Durham has a higher percentage of white students than traditional public schools.
What is charter school?
400
Practice wherein schools break away from an existing district and form their own new district, resulting in deepened segregation.
What is district secession?
500
Name of the Durham Public Schools Superintendent
What is Dr. Anthony Lewis?
500
Name of the current Department of Education secretary.
Who is Linda McMahon?
500
Belief shaping contemporary curriculum reform that the US is either distinctive, unique, or exemplary compared to other nations.
What is exceptionalism?
500
A source of great disparity between school districts, local funding for schools primarily comes from this source.
What are property taxes?
500
Federal discriminatory action (think Andrew Jackson) taking place at the same time Common Schools were emerging in the US
What is Indian Removal?