Education
We give one month for learning to teach our students about the rich history of the black community.. what month is that?
February is designated as Black History Month
Plessy vs Ferguson is what?
A Supreme Court decision that upheld racial segregation on the condition that facilities are equal in quality, also known as "separate but equal".
Black Lives Matter
Who was named as the first black president of the United States?
Barrack Obama
From the "Black Lives Matter" reading, the article titled "Getting Schooled" described the curriculum in our schools with these three descriptive words?
Lying, Chokin, and Dying ( found in the title and on page 20)
What is the Achievement Gap?
A gap in academic achievement between minority and disadvantaged students from their white counterparts.
What does FHA stand for and what did they to contribute to segregation of neighbors?
Federal Housing Authority and they have their hand in a large amount of pushing loans away from older inner-city neighborhoods and toward white homebuyers moving into segregated suburbs. Especially after WWII
What is BLM?
An international activist movement originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence towards black people.
When did slavery end in America?
1865
Based on the article "From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt" what is the dollar amount that is spent on a pupil in CPS vs a predominantly white private neighborhood school?
CPS spends $ 8,483 annually per pupil
Highland Park spends $17,291 per pupil.
Black students are overrepresented in ____________________classes and underrepresented in ____________________courses
1) Special education classes
2) Advanced Placement
Brown vs. Board of Education is what?
A case that reversed legal segregation in public schools and other public accommodation.
How did BLM begin?
The movement began in 2013 with Bthe hashta #BlackLivesMatter on social media, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
In 1909 W.E.B. Du Bois and others meet to create this famous community group, which is called?
The NAACP
From the reading titled " From the Lives of the Mouths that Matter" the author lists some of the stereotypes placed on black students. Name 2?
Black students are more likely to be: suspended, drop out, and less high -achieving than their white counterparts ( page 36)
How has traditional multiculturalism in education failed to address racial issues within the United States?
Traditional attempts at multiculturalism in education have been mandated and largely superficial. By focusing on cultural differences rather than social stratification, social inequality is left unchallenged.
This policy gave students of color preference in admission to colleges and schools.
Affirmative action
What was the name of the person who said to the police: "I can't breathe!"
Eric Garner
How did post-WWII suburbanization affect segregation in America?
As white people started to move out of cities, black people were blocked through discriminatory banking, mortgages, and realty practices.
The article "There Is No Race in the Schoolyard" centered around colorblindness of this dominate white suburb. What is colorblindness and what is its negative effects?
Racial classifications do not limit a person's opportunities based on their race, or color, as well as race-neutral governmental policies that reject discrimination in any form, and said to promote the goal of racial equality.
Negative effects: Ignoring the problems that other races face, whitewashing history and culture.