Individual school districts negotiate collective agreements with the teachers they employ. The amount of compensation that they are willing to pay is up to each school district and is an example of the type of power known as __________.
What is Discretionary?
100
The use of public funds to provide secular services has led to a concept that is referred to as the __________.
What is the child benefit theory?
100
Most employers and members of the public believe that schools should provide a basic education that will allow students to obtain a job and live independently. To do this, students must be able to meet a set of standards, known as __________.
What are real-world standards?
100
The earliest schools in America had a curriculum that was built around religion, Greek, and Latin. This type of program, which some people still advocate today, is referred to as __________.
What is subject centered?
100
The movement to reorganize education based on overcoming real and perceived problems in the status quo is known as __________.
What is school reform?
200
The movement to establish special committees of teachers and parents to work with the principal in making decisions at the school level is known as __________.
What is site-based making (SBDM) or School-based management (SBM)?
200
The type of segregation or resegregation caused by housing patterns and other non-legal factors is referred to as __________.
What is de facto?
200
When the Cranberry Creek School District introduced new standards, it provided the resources and teacher inservice so that students could achieve what was intended. The actions of the school district that create appropriate conditions to learn are called __________.
What are opportunity- to- learn standards?
200
School activities and programs that enrich student opportunities and participation are part of the __________.
What is co-curriculum (extra-curriculum)?
200
An extremely critical time period that influences whether students will eventually drop out of schools when they are moving from elementary to middle school or from middle school to high school. These time periods are referred to as the __________.
What are transition years?
300
When a State Board of Education establishes standards for the issuing and revoking of teaching licenses, the function it is performing is classified as __________.
What is regulatory?
300
Procedures designed to ensure that under-represented populations have equal opportunities are known as __________ policies.
What is affirmative action?
300
Clyde Munt is a math teacher who introduces his students to the following standard: The student demonstrates an understanding of algebraic methods used to explore, model, and describe patterns and functions. This is an example of the type of standards known as __________.
What is formative?
300
The curriculum design that focuses on teaching generalizations and big ideas is known as __________.
What is themed?
300
If elementary school principal Janna Maaten wants to help reduce future student drop-out rates then she can begin to introduce programs for her elementary students specifically designed for that purpose. These programs aim at specific key target areas and are known as __________.
What are early interventions?
400
Taxes, such as sales and use taxes, which place greater burdens on the poor than they do on the rich are examples of the type of taxes that are __________.
What is regressive?
400
Free, appropriate education of children with disabilities is made available through an Act of Congress known as __________.
What is the Individuals With Disabilities Act (IDEA)?
400
When teachers determine what students have learned and provide feedback on the next steps to take, they are conducting a type of assessment known as __________.
What is summative?
400
Jackson Bates emphasizes honesty and openness with his students and demonstrates that he is open to diverse ideas. In so doing, he is revealing that aspect of the curriculum that is known as the __________.
What is hidden curriculum?
400
Teachers today are expected to work together with colleagues and parents in a spirit of __________.
What is collegial learning( collaboration)?
500
The movement, which began in California in 1978, in which some citizens force the state government to limit spending via a ballot initiative is known as a __________.
What is taxpayer revolt?
500
The constitutional amendment that provides teachers with rights of substantive and procedural due process is the __________ Amendment.
What is the fourteenth?
500
When teachers make final judgments about whether or not students have attained a desirable level of achievement they are conducting a form of assessment known as __________.
What is norm-rerenced?
500
Public Schools and institutions of higher learning in this state are accredited through an agency known as the __________.
What is (dependent of location of school) Association of Colleges and Schools?
500
A principal who has a clear and strong vision of what a school should look like after a change process is said to have a facilitator style known as a __________.