Post Brown
Education in the 1970's
Education in the 1980's
Education in the 1990's
Education in a New Century
100
In an effort to combat "white flight", urban schools districts created this type of school with innovative curriculum and technological resources meant to attract more white students to schools in the city.
What is a magnet school?
100
In 1972, congress passed this amendment which prohibited sexual discrimination against employees and students in educational programs receiving federal funds.
What is Title IX?
100
In an effort to decrease federal spending and involvement in education, this president attempted to eliminate the Department of Education in the 1980's.
Who is President Reagan?
100
This educational reform act worked to establish national standards and new assessment systems.
What is Goals 2000?
100
In 2002, President George W. Bush signed this educational reform act into law, mandating that states to develop curriculum standards systems for assessing students annually.
What is No Child Left Behind?
200
This court case allowed districts to bus students, up to a distances of 100 miles within the district, in order to achieve racial integration.
What is Swann vs. Charlotte-Mecklenberg (1971)?
200
This U.S. Supreme Court Case ruling mandated that schools myst provided special language programs for non-English speaking children.
What is Lau vs. Nichols (1974)?
200
The authors of this report, commissioned by Ronald Reagan in 1983, declared that a "rising tide of mediocrity" had swept through American schools during the 1960's and 70's and had eroded the foundation of American public education.
What is A Nation At Risk?
200
This approach to measuring student achievement accompanied the rise of the curriculum standards in the 1990's.
What is high-stakes testing?
200
According to NCLB, schools must make progress towards this established proficiency goal.
What is Adequate Yearly Progress?
300
In this court case, busing for the purposes of racial integration deemed illegal, because it involved busing students between school districts.
What is Milliken vs. Bradley (1974)?
300
This was the precursor for the 1990 and 2004 Individuals with Disabilities Education Acts (IDEA)
What is the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) of 1975?
300
True or false. During the 1980's, states across the country enacted legislation to emphasize the teaching of computer literacy and basic skills, increase graduation requirements, establish minimum standards for participation in athletics, and lengthen the school day/year.
What is True?
300
This the term for a public school that has been given programmatic freedom in return for results-based accountability.
What is a charter school?
300
According to NCLB, if a school or district fails to meet AYP for two or more consecutive years, they are placed on this list.
What is "in need of improvement"?
400
In the court's explanation for its ruling in Oklahoma City vs. Dowell (1991), this Supreme Court justice declared, "Racial imbalance in schools not unconstitutional; only racial imbalance caused by discrimination." As a result, schools no longer had to work towards desegregation, as long as they could prove they were not acting in a discriminatory way.
What is Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas?
400
This office was elevated to a cabinet position after the Department of Education was established during the Carter Administration.
Who is the Secretary of Education?
400
The first part of educational reform that resulted from A Nation At Risk focused on these two concepts.
What is achievement and accountability?
400
This is a certificate issued by the government that a parent can apply toward tuition at a private school, rather than a public school to which their child is assigned.
What is a voucher?
400
This is the term used to described a teacher that has a BA, has full licensure, and has demonstrated subject-matter competence.
What is "highly qualified"?
500
In 2006, these Harvard researchers documented the re-segregation of American public schools.
Who are Orfield and Lee?
500
A decline in scores on this achievement test led many parents and politicians to call for a return to a "back-to-the-basics" movement in schools at the end of the 1970's.
What is the SAT?
500
This is the term used to describe change from the bottom-up. It reflects the second wave of educational reform that resulted from A Nation At Risk, including an emphasis on site-based management, parent involvement, and school choice.
What is decentralization?
500
This is the practice of contracting with companies to operate schools on a for-profit basis.
What is privatization?
500
Established by the Obama Administration in 2009, this is grant program asked states to compete for federal funds that they could use to reform education.
What is Race to the Top?
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