Basic Civic Education
The type of government used within the country that supports civic education and promotes the most important components of the model such as literacy, active citizenship, voting, community service and more.
What is Democracy?
Early African American who contributed to education of US and established Tuskegee Institute in AL to provide African American children education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The difference in test scores between poor and wealthy students and between students of color and white students is known as this
What is the educational equity gap?
This law holds schools accountable for how kids learn and achieve; it provides money for extra educational assistance for underprivileged children
What is No Child Left Behind?
A significant element of civic education/participation that allows for EACH individual to attempt to change their government, political system, community and many other aspects of their country
What is voting?
Was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women’s higher education, the Seminary in Troy, New York.
Who is Emma Willard?
This proposed law seeks to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants through access to higher education.
What is the DREAM Act?
A skill enabling individuals to be active in the public sphere and in their governments
What is literacy
Between 1820 and 1860 an educational awakening took place in the US and this man helped establish common elementary schools in Massachusetts.
Who is Horace Mann?
Procedures designed to ensure that under-represented populations have equal opportunities
What is affirmative action?
This Supreme Court case established the doctrine of 'separate but equal' schooling, giving legal protection to the continuation of segregated schooling.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?