In what year did the school calendar increase to 9 months out of the year?
What is 1922
100
Offers courses primarily online:
What is virtual school
100
In how many states is corporal punishment outlawed in public schools?
What is 32
100
A dramatic increase in births following World War II?
What is Baby Boom
100
What was the purpose of an abacus in early classrooms?
What is to make calculations
200
What three things were the basis of an educated person?
What are reading, grammar, and spelling
200
Encourage interaction and group work between the students:
What are separate desks and chairs
200
What is North Carolina's policy regarding corporal punishment?
What is school personnel may use reasonable force, including corporal punishment, to control behavior or to remove a person from the scene in five specific situations when necessary
200
How many full time equivalent school teachers were engaged in classroom instruction during the fall of 2010?
What is 3.6 million
200
Name one of the professions which make use of simulation technology.
doctor, nurse, military
300
What was the last subject to be added to the rural school curriculum?
What is music
300
Students can proceed at their own pace and replay audio lectures:
What is advantages to virtual schools
300
What is the name of the law which expanded the due-process rights of students?
What is Goss vs. Lopez
300
How many students were in schools by 2006?
What is 55.3 million
300
Radio instruction included which four subjects?
What are penmanship, accounting, arithmetic, and history
400
What symbol of an educated person was practiced continuously?
What is penmanship
400
Two types of interactive learning:
What are interaction with content and interaction with other people
400
What was the court's finding in Tinker vs. Des Moines School District?
What is the school violated the students' rights to free speech
400
Between 1929-1930 approximately how many public schools were there?
What is 248,000
400
What is the fastest growing form of technology in public schools today?
What is computer
500
What subject was the most important for farmers?
What is arithmetic
500
The three R's of education:
What are reading, [w]riting, and [a]rithmetic
500
What is the primary form of discipline in the classroom?verbal reprimand
What is verbal reprimand
500
What year did school systems start shifting away from junior high schools?
What is 1970
500
In 1984, what was the ratio of computers to students?