Resources & Realities
President who signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law.
Who is George W. Bush?
Terms that means to reduce to poverty.
What is impoverished?
The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.
What is education?
Term that means the lack of fairness or justice.
What is inequality?
A numerical measure of a student's academic performance that averages their grades in all courses.
What is a grade point average (GPA)?
Terms that means a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed by a particular person or a restricted group of people beyond the advantages of most.
What is privileged?
Any institution at which instruction is given in a particular discipline.
What is school?
Money provided, especially by an organization or government for a particular purpose.
What is funding?
An assessment administered and scored in a consistent, predetermined manner to all test-takers in which performances are compared.
What is a standardized test?
An institution that has the newest technology. The students have many before and after-school programs. Most students who graduate from this type of institution go on to a four-year university.
What is a privileged school?
This law was established in 2001. It requires that states use standardized testing to assess students' performance and that schools be held accountable for the results.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act, NCLB Act?
Communities that often do not provide high-quality education that can lead to upward mobility tend to have high crime rates
What is minority and low-income communities?
A Federal program that allows students who have a household income that falls 130% below the federal poverty line, and 130%-185% below the federal poverty line to receive free of reduced lunch.
What is the National School Lunch Program?
An institution that lacks many before and after-school programs. Students come from minority and low-income communities. High number of students either drop out, or do not go on to attend college/universities after graduation.
What is an impoverished school?
The 2015 Act replaced the NCLB Act and gave states more control over education by allowing them to set their own accountability systems while still requiring standardized testing and goals for academic achievement.
What is the Every Student Succeed Act?
The belief in fair and equal treatment for all people, advocating for equal rights, opportunities, and access to resources
What is social justice?