Durham
Ed History
Philosophies
Governance
MISC
100

Name of the large bronze bull in downtown Durham

What is Major?

100

Focus of US education in the 18th Century

What is citizenship education?

100

Name of the father of progressive education in the US

Who is John Dewey?

100
2000-2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act required extensive assessment and reporting in public schools

What is No Child Left Behind? 

100

Name of PFS coordinator for service-learning

Who is Joanna Middleton


200

Honorific name for Parrish Street in Durham

What is Parrish St?

200

Constitutional amendment that says what isn't governed by the Constitution is a state's issue.

What is the 10th Amendment?

200

Perennial text most frequently assigned in US high schools?

What is EITHER Romeo & Juliet OR To Kill a Mockingbird? (half credit for The Great Gatsby).

200

Public school model initially designed to desegregate schools, these schools feature a specialized curriculum intended to draw students/families to the school.

What is a magnet school?

200

Duke team Ty plays on

What is softball?


300

Durham native who graduated from Hillside High School, whose murals appear around Durham and whose family home is on the National Historic Register.

Who is Pauli Murray


300

Being 17th Century education in the colonies was designed to foil, thereby saving souls.

Who is the Old Deluder Satan?

300
Black scholar who advocated for use of courts and laws to desegregate/integrate schools (and other institutions)

Who is Charles Hamilton Houston?

300

School choice model that facilitates students' enrollment in private school

What is the Voucher program?

300

Term that describes lessons learned in classrooms that isn't a formal/explicit part of what gets taught.

What is the hidden curriculum?

400

Number of the highway that cut through Durham's Hayti neighborhood.

What is Highway 147?

400
Parallel history that began at the same time as the arrival of Puritans in (current-day) Massachusetts.

What is N. American Slave Trade?

400

Two of the principles advocated in an essentialist classroom.

What is core knowledge, character education, common culture, teacher-centered, moral virtue, patriotism, American identity? 

400

Locus of government that provides the greatest share of school funding.

What is state funding?

400

1969 Supreme Court ruling protecting students' right to free speech in school settings (presuming no disruption).

What is Tinker vs. Des Moines

500

Name of one of the two sculptures found in Durham's Black Wall Street Gardens.

What is The Book Tree or The Prism?

500

Soviet achievement that catapulted the US into the space race and a focus on STEM education.

What is Sputnik?

500

School in the UK founded on existentialism

What is Summerhill?

500

Best answer when someone asks about a school policy and its impact on schools and students.

What is "it depends!"

500

Name of two seniors in our class

Who are Sreya, Joe, Sean, Sejal, Grace, Rosie, Sanjana?