Curriculum
The Outcome
Education Wars & Assumptions
Culture & Education
Wild Card
100
Nation in which religious instruction is forbidden in state-sponsored schools.
What is United States
100
An international assessment of math and science skill of 4th and 8th graders.
What is TIMSS (Trends in Math and Science Study)
100
These countries teach math with more coherence than United States
What is Japan and Germany
100
The unofficial, unstated, or implicit rules and priorities that influence the academic curriculum and every other aspect of learning in school.
What is Hidden Curriculum
100
Asian nations tend to have high math and science scores despite having this high ratio
What is teacher-pupil ratio
200
A federal law that mandates annual standardized achievement test for public school children beginning in the third grade.
What is No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
200
A planned five-year cycle of international trend studies in the reading ability of 4th graders.
What is PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study)
200
According to the National Council of Teachers of mathematics this topics will be saved for the 4th grade
What is multiplications, fractions, and decimals
200
The unofficial, unstated, or implicit rules and priorities that influence the academic curriculum and every other aspect of learning in school.
What are learning colors, raising hands, write words
200
This common classroom tool may undermine a child in learning
What is homework
300
A federal program aimed at ensuing that all children learn to read by the end of the third grade.
What is Reading First
300
A project that is child-centered and has classes that encourage maximum participation.
What is UNICEF- supported Global Education
300
This teaching approach encourages early use of taking and listening, reading and writing? whole-language approach
What is whole-language approach
300
In this example Vietnamese children in Texas are instructed in two languages by a teacher who knows their culture, and they use red pens for self-correction as well as teacher correction.
What is Maintaining Tradition
300
Country that spent $5,000 annually per child in education.
What is France
400
A federal Department of Education project that measures achievements in reading, mathematics, and other subjects.
What is National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)
400
Tests that indicate the progress in which children are learning throughout different countries.
What is International Achievement Tests
400
This teaching approach teaches the sounds of each letter and of various letter combination's
What is phonics approach
400
Better test grades come with this administrative choice through correlation and not causation. This is also associated through an emphasis on achievements, study, and discipline.
What is a School Uniform
400
Test that consider all kinds of ethnic backgrounds and geographies.
What is culture-neutral tests
500
Percent of 12th graders below basic mathematics achievement level in 2000 in the United States.
What is 35%
500
The hypothesis that states "that males and females are similar on most measure, with every few exceptions."
What is gender similarities hypothesis
500
This school subject is vital for science and technology
What is Math
500
In education these social systems that evolve over time are outcomes of cultural beliefs.
What is Teaching Method
500
This Japanesse word means "more relaxed education"
What is Yutori Kyoiku
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