This statistic is derived from dividing the total number of dollars a school system spends by the number of students.
What is per-pupil expenditure?
100
Because of _Tinker v. Des Moines School District_ 1969, students and teachers have the right to this as long as they are not disruptive.
What is freedom of speech and expression (e.g., to express political stance)?
100
Many falsely believe that education is included in this important national document.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
100
Massachusetts enacted the first of this kind of law in 1852, requiring 12 weeks of school.
What is a compulsory attendance law?
200
An ongoing debate in state legislatures is whether these should be tied to additional funding for low-performing schools.
What are standardized test scores?
200
You are a 1st grade teacher, and at the end of the year, as your children matriculate to 2nd grade, you do too, and you teach the class again. This is called __________________.
What is looping?
200
According to IDEA, children with IEPs have the right to this placement, with classmates in a "regular" classroom to the maximum extent appropriate.
What is least restrictive environment (LRE)?
200
A mark of good governance, meetings must be open to the public and to the press.
What is transparency?
200
This federal cabinet position was established in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. Some of our current presidential candidates aim to eliminate or diminish its role in education.
What is the U.S. Department of Education?
300
The largest percentage of a school system's budget is _________________.
What is Instruction and Instruction-Related, which includes teacher salaries?
300
As a first year teacher, you can expect that this school official will evaluate your teaching performance one or more time.
Who is the Principal?
300
_Plyler v. Doe_ decision of 1982 empowers schools to grant public education to this group of children.
What are undocumented children of alien parents?
300
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 was reauthorized in 2001 as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). President Obama reauthorized it again as this act.
What is Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
300
The first of its kind opened in St. Louis in 1873. It wasn't for another 100 years (or more) that all states required children to attend, however, and it remained voluntary attendance.
What is kindergarten?
400
In Tennessee, the largest percentage of MOST school system's budgets derives from the ___________.
What is the State?
400
A leadership role that classroom teachers can aspire to and remain teaching is ________________________.
What is department chair (secondary) or team leader (elementary/middle)?
400
According to FERPA, families have access to students' records, and schools are not allowed to release certain information from the records without the parents' permission until the students reach this age.
What is 18 years old?
400
ESSA amends NCLB regarding linking students' standardized test scores to this.
What is annual teacher evaluations?
400
This Supreme Court decision in 1974 established that special language programs are necessary to provide equal educational opportunity to students who do not understand English.
What is _Lau v. Nichols_?
500
As Tennessee does not have a personal income tax for its residents, local school system rely mainly on these two taxes for revenue sources.
What are property taxes and sales taxes?
500
If your school holds weekly meetings for teams of teachers to collaborate, plan, and learn together as professionals, you work in a ____________________.
What is a PLC (Professional Learning Community)?
500
_Lemon v. Kurtzman_ of 1971 disallowed public funds to pay for this.
What is salary of a teacher at a non-public school?
500
Achievement scores provide a snapshot of how the student performed on a standardized test that day; these scores compare the test score for each student from year to year.
What are growth scores?
500
This law (which affects many of you in ED110!) outlawed discrimination based on gender.