Sociocultural and/or Education Basics
Education Funding
School Reforms
Segregation Matters
De/Re/Segregation
100
Between local, state, and federal governments, this level makes fewer decisions about curriculum, educator qualifications, and school funding.
What is the federal government?
100
The largest percentage of school budgets/expenditures goes to this category.
What is payroll/personnel?
100
This model of public education developed in the late 1960s offers a specialized curriculum designed to attract students to a school; the model was ruled by federal courts to be a method of school desegregation.
What are magnet schools?
100
This is the most segregated state in the nation for Black students though it has only one-sixth Black students.
What is New York?
The other most segregated states on our various measures are CA, IL, MD, TX, and NJ.
100
Black students in the South are __________ segregated than they were in l968.
What is far less?
But Black students are far more segregated than they were at the high point of desegregation in the 1980s.
200
Research indicates White people make up 60% of the population in the US and own ___% of the wealth (within 5%).
What is 86%?
200
Within 10 points, this percentage of school funding comes from state and local funds.
What is 90%?
200
A third of this type of school in Durham has a higher percentage of white students than traditional public schools, whereas, 72% in Wake County report a higher percentage of white students than the district overall.
What are charter schools?
200
Researcher Gary Orfield described this as a self-perpetuating system in which inequality is transferred from each generation to the next.
What is segregation?
200
This group of students is often concentrated in many of the same school districts as Black students, creating two large, disadvantaged groups who often share the same schools and communities as well as similar levels of isolation from White and middle-class students.
300
Percentage of students educated in public schools in the US (within 2 percentage points).
What is 90%?
300
A source of great disparity between school districts, local funding for schools primarily comes from this source.
What are property taxes?
300
Schools remain highly segregated by race and class, in part because of the segregation in _____________, which largely determine where students enroll.
What are neighborhoods?
300
Research indicates that the benefits of integrated schooling are most substantial for this group of students.
Who are Black students?
300
This image describes a model of school segregation:
What is in-school segregation?
400
The name of Durham Public Schools' Superintendent.
Who is Dr. Anthony Lewis?
400
Ruling of the Supreme Court when cases have argued that SCOTUS must require school districts to equalize funding between a state's schools/districts.
What is: it is up to states to deal with financial inequities?
400
This school choice model provides funds to families to attend private schools
What are vouchers?
400
A 2019 Gallup survey showed that 68% of Blacks and 65% of Latinos saw “racial concentration or segregation” as a serious problem, compared to this percentage of Whites (within 5 points).
What is 52%?
400
Students of color are disproportionately poor and schools that are segregated by race usually also have concentrated poverty. This term is used to describe separation from Whites and segregation from middle class schools.
What is double segregation?
500
Percentage of low-income students attending highly and most selective colleges and universities (within 2 percentage points).
What is 10%?
500
Within $1000, this is the average per pupil spending at the national level.
What is $15,350?
500
This economist argued that school choice practices act as a means of increasing competition among public schools, thereby offering families more options.
Who is Milton Friedman?
500
In a 2020 survey, 94% of Blacks - and the largest majority of the total population, 64% - agreed with what proposition about the rights of Black citizens relative to white citizens.
What is: "our country needs to continue making changes to give Blacks equal rights with whites"?
500
Practice wherein schools break away from an existing district and form their own new district, resulting in deepened segregation.
What is district secession?