US Education
This is a type of school for children under the age of 5 that is typically run by private organizations, meaning parents must pay for their children to attend.
What is pre-school?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Using an object to represent an idea.
What is symbolism?
The state Arambi is from.
What is California?
An economic crisis that revealed the insufficiency of the US social safety net.
What is the Great Depression?
A football game at the beginning of the school year when alumni from the school typically return to visit.
What is Homecoming?
The upper house of Congress that has two representatives from each state.
What is the Senate?
An animal used to symbolize the Democratic party.
What is a donkey?
The college where Arambi went to school.
What is Harvard?
The national ethos of the United States that includes ideals such as home ownership, upward mobility, and consumerism.
What is the American Dream?
An independent, local unit of government with authority over public K-12 education occurring within the unit. Students are assigned to these based on where they live.
What is a school district?
A branch of government that has the power to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is the judicial branch?
A form of journalism that used techniques including exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or attention-grabbing headlines in order to sell more papers.
What is yellow journalism?
The profession Arambi plans to pursue.
What is a medical doctor?
An unprecedented federal initiative beginning in the 1960s to address poverty through education, financial assistance, and job training programs.
What is the War on Poverty?
This exam was established by OECD in 2000 as a tool to measure literacy in mathematics, science, and reading among 15-year-olds around the world.
What is the PISA?
A group of nine black students who were the first to integrate a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
What are the Little Rock Nine?
Individuals from the Progressive Era in the United States who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions. They are the precursors to modern investigative journalism.
What are muckrakers?
Arambi's last name.
What is Eyong?
A cash assistance program signed to law in 1935; it is commonly known as welfare.
What is the Aid to Dependent Children program?
High school students choose to take these challenging, college-level classes to show that they can handle a rigorous course load and be a more competitive applicant to university.
What is an advanced placement (AP) class?
A doctrine used by the Supreme Court to uphold segregation in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
What is separate-but-equal?
Distorting facts, data, or observations so that readers/listeners interpret events in a more favorable (or unfavorable) light than is justified.
What is spin?
The city in Belgium where Arambi has lived the longest.
What is Gent?
The president of who effectively ended federal cash assistance.
Who is Bill Clinton?