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Schools
Teachers
Students
History
100
New teachers earn about this many dollars in their first year.
What is $37,000?
100
This type of school focuses on a specific curriculum area.
What is a magnet school?
100
On average, a teacher works this many hours a week.
What is 52?
100
Family stress, drug abuse, and violence are among the top contributors to this in the U. S.
What is the dropout rate?
100
He was the champion of the common school movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
200
Medical insurance and retirement plans are called these type of benefits for teachers.
What are fringe?
200
According to research on best teaching practices, successful schools have teachers that set these for students.
What are high expectations?
200
The NEA and AFT are examples of these.
What are teachers' unions?
200
This ethnic group has the highest dropout rate.
What is Hispanic?
200
The Old Deluder Satan Act is also known as this.
What is the Massachusetts Act of 1647?
300
These are the folks responsible for approving district hires and determining school district policies.
Who is the school board?
300
These type of schools do not have governmental oversight.
What are private schools?
300
Teachers must form relationships with these 4 different groups of people.
Who are students, colleagues, administrators, and parents?
300
This percent of students in the U.S. live in poverty.
What is 18?
300
The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) decision ended this segregationist doctrine.
What is separate but equal?
400
The report, A Nation at Risk (1983), began this movement in the U.S.
What is the educational reform movement?
400
School districts receive most of their directives from here.
What is the state board of education?
400
A teacher's educational philosophy will include beliefs about these 4 areas.
What are students, teaching, knowledge, and what is worth knowing?
400
A harassing email or insulting Facebook post might be examples of this.
What is cyberbullying?
400
These are the three main priorities of today's schools.
What are equity, accountability, and excellence?
500
This philosophical orientation is based on the belief that education should be child-centered.
What is progressivism?
500
These types of high schools usually provide remedial instruction and individualized counseling to students with greater needs.
What are alternative schools (or school-within-a-school)?
500
In addition to knowledge of educational theory, teachers need knowledge of these 4 areas.
What are self-knowledge, knowledge of students, knowledge of subject, and knowledge of how to integrate technology?
500
The difference in school accomplishments between races is called this.
What is the achievement gap?
500
The "mainstreaming law" dictated this.
What is a guarantee that students with special needs will receive a free education in the least restrictive educational environment?