Standard length of time in which ESEA is supposed to be authorized.
What is five years?
100
A Senator who was a former Secretary of Education.
Who is Senator Lamar Alexander?
100
The amount of time it took Congress to pass ESEA after President Johnson sent his detailed proposal to Congress.
What is three months?
100
The grade levels that receives the largest amount of Title I funds.
What is elementary school level or grades K-5?
100
The Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88) was signed into law by this President.
Who is President Jimmy Carter?
200
The 1988 ESEA Reauthorization established this governing board.
What is the National Assessment Governing Board or NAGB?
200
The Commissioner of Education in 1965, known as the "architect" of ESEA.
Who is Francis Keppel?
200
ESEA was part of this larger initiative that was hallmark of President Johnson's administration.
What is the War on Poverty?
200
Student achievement became a major focus of Title I in the reauthorized ESEA in this decade.
What is the 1980s?
200
On March 23, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law H.R. 584, which names the ED Headquarters building after this person.
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson?
300
According to President Johnson, the year that Congress began its efforts to pass legislation for elementary and seconard education.
What is 1946?
300
Chairman of the education commission developed by President Johnson in 1964.
Who is John Gardner? The commission was referred to as the Gardner Commission.
300
The number of Titles in the original ESEA that was passed in 1965.
What are six?
300
One of five major changes to Title I under No Child Left Behind relating to accountability.
What is
Increased accountability OR
Yearly standardized tests OR
Annual report cards OR
AYP OR
Highly Qualified Teachers OR
300
Including the current Secretary of Education (Arne Duncan), the number of individuals who have served as U.S. Secretaries of Educations.
What are 9?
400
In 1983, the report Nation at Risk, cited this finding from the 1982 Gallup Poll of Public Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.
What is educaction should be at the top of the Nation's agenda?
400
The Members of Congress who sponsored the original ESEA in the House and Senate respectively in 1965.
Who are Representative Perkins and Senator Morse?
400
The location where ESEA was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
What is Stonewall, Texas OR at the one room school house where LBJ attended school? Junction Elementary School, Johnson City, Texas
400
One of three major changes to Title I under the 1994 Improving America’s Schools Act with regard to eligibility to receive funds and poverty levels.
What is
Required math and language arts state standards OR
Reduced the threshold for schoolwide programs from 75% poverty to 50% poverty OR
Allowed funding from multiple programs for school wide programs.
400
She was the first Secretary of Education.
Who is Shirley Hufstedler?
500
The year the Office of Education was authorized by Congress.
What is 1846?
500
The Senator that first advocated evaluations of ESEA to ensure that federal investments were producing measurable gains in student achievement.
Who is Senator Robert Kennedy?
500
The exisiting law that ESEA technically amended.
What is Impact Aid?
500
The year in which the first attempts were made to changes ESEA’s categorical grants to block grants to states.
What is 1967?
500
The Secretary of Education is _____ (blank) in line to the President.