School Reform
Standards and Testing
Choice
The Trouble with Accountability
What Would Mrs. Ratliff Do?
100
The first state to require all students to study three years of world history and three years of U. S. history.
What is California
100
During the Clinton Administration, which state was recognized for developing "stellar standards in every subject area"?
What is Massachusetts?
100
Charter schools have outperformed public schools in math and reading. True or False.
False. According to 2003 data, charter schools only outperformed public schools in reading, not in mathematics.
100
Tricks and shortcuts to achieve desired results, without improving education.
What is gaming the system?
100
A statistical technique developed by Willaim Sanders (Univ of TN) that measured gains made by teachers with their students.
What is Value Added Assessment
200
Looking at schools and teachers and students from 20,000 feet and seeing them as objects to be moved around by big ideas and great plans.
What is Seeing like a state?
200
What movement "Changed the nature of public schooling across the nation by making standardized test scores the primary measure of school quality."
What is No Child Left Behind?
200
How long charter schools have to meet the performance goals set by the state in exchange for autonomy.
What is 3 to 5 years?
200
It is illegal for charter schools to require students to write essays, get letters of recommendation, and have interviews with student's parents. True or False?
What is False. It is not illegal, but it is unethical and unfair.
200
An ultraconservative, vigilante group in Texas whose members would frighten teachers by dropping in unannounced to observe classrooms to find out if teachers were expressing unacceptable political opinions.
Who are the Minute Women?
300
This group felt they could fix education by applying the principles of business, organization management, law and marketing.
What is corporate reformers
300
The decline in SAT Scores from 1965 - 1975 can be attributed to what two major factors?
What is Increased Number of minority students taking the test and Erosion of academic learning caused by increased television viewing, rising divorce rates, political upheavals and changes in school practices?
300
In 1955, Milton Friedman proposed that the government supply these to every family so that every student could attend a school of choice.
What is vouchers.
300
Schools have stopped paying attention to students' health, physical education, civic knowledge, the arts, and enrichment activities when they started holding teachers accountable only for test scores in ___________ and ____________.
What is reading and mathematics?
300
The Chancellor of Washington DC schools who proposed the New Teacher Project to recruit teachers for inner city schools. She opposed unions and tenure but favored merit pay.
Who is Michelle Rhee?
400
Ravitch became fascinated and focused on the history of what school system. This became the theme of her dissertation for her doctorate at Columbia University.
What is the New York City School System?
400
The effort to develop voluntary national standards was disbanded in 1994 because of a controversy over the standards being developed in what subject area?
What is History?
400
He was originally called the founding father of charter schools, but actually became a staunch critic of them by the early 1990's.
Who is Albert Shanker?
400
___________ and __________ are not considered because NCLB does not include measures and indicators of students' diligence, effort, and motivation.
What is homework and attendance?
400
The national program that gets college grads teaching for 2-3 years in disadvantaged areas of the country.
What is Teach for America?
500
Ravitch believes we must have a strong, coherent, explicit curriculum that is grounded in ___________ and __________, with plenty of opportunity for children to engage in activities and projects that make learning lively.
What is the liberal arts and sciences ?
500
A response to the radical reforms of the late 1960's and early 1970's?
What is A Nation at Risk?
500
Competition with regular public schools will lead to improvements in both sectors, and that choice is the rising tide that lifts all boats is the theory of this movement.
What is the Charter School Movement?
500
Tests should always be supplemented, and, when necessary, trumped by this.
What is human judgement.
500
The number of years (according to economists) a top quartile teacher could reverse the achievement gap.
What is 3 to 5 years?
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