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Broader Context for Secondary Education
School Reform: Past and Present
Class Climate
The Social Organization of Schools
Beyond High School
100
This system is comprised of middle schools, junior high, and high schools.
What is secondary education?
100
The history of curricular reform in American has been one of frequent shifting in which this type more than "relevance" has ruled for the past three decades.
What is "rigor"?
100
According to research these people are more likely to base their expectations in part on students ethnic and socioeconomic background.
Who are the teachers?
100
This is the percentage of US secondary schools are overcrowded if not by a huge margin.
What is 15%?
100
For college in the United States, this gender group continues to increase in college enrollment.
Who are the females?
200
During the 19th and into the 20th century, these were the 3 most important items that caused the role of children and young adolescents in the workplace to change dramatically.
What is industrialization, urbanization, and immigration?
200
This percentage of high schools in the US that produce half of the country’s dropouts.
What is 12%?
200
These 5 factors heavily influence the classroom climate.
What are the stereotypes, the tone, student-student interaction, faculty- student interaction, and content?
200
This effect in which the reason that individuals who attend high school with high- achieving peers feel worse about themselves than comparably successful individuals with lower- achieving peers.
What is big fish- little pond effect?
200
Extra Credit: This person is currently representing women's rights at the UN Council for gender equality.
Who is Emma Watson?
300
By 1915, the idea of ___________ __________ ___________ for adolescents had gained widespread acceptance.
What is universal compulsory education?
300
This practice of promoting students from one grade to the next automatically regardless of their school performance.
What is social promotion?
300
To what extent are these people psychologically committed to learning and mastering the material rather than simply completing the assigned work.
What is the student engagement?
300
This educational institution housing seventh and eighth grade students along with adolescents who are 1 or 2 years younger.
What is middle school?
300
This percentage of all students who enroll in a 4 year college complete their degree within 6 years.
What are fewer than 60%?
400
Industrialization brought with it _____________ and along with several waves of ___________, posing new problems for urban centers.
What is urbanization; immigrants?
400
These policies are designed to improve achievement by holding schools and students to a predetermined set of standards measured by achievement tests.
What is standard- based reform?
400
This method is a get- tough approach to adolescent misbehavior that responds seriously or excessively to the first infraction.
What is zero tolerance?
400
Name the 5 key aspects of school organization.
What are (1) school and classroom size, (2) different approaches to age and grouping, (3) tracking, (4) the ethnic composition of schools, (5) public vs. private schools?
400
In todays education society, this fraction of high school graduates enroll in college immediately after graduation
What are 2/3 of students?
500
This educational institution evolved during the first half of the 20th century, offered a varied curriculum and designed to meet the needs of a diverse population of adolescents.
What is comprehensive high school?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: In 2002, this person signed the NCLB Act stating that all students regardless of their economic circumstances, achieve academic proficiency.
Who is President George W. Bush?
500
Since the 1992-1993 school year, there have been 270 violent deaths that have occurred at schools across the nation according to the National School Safety Center. These are the number of deaths that are relating to shooting victims.
What is 207 shooting victims?
500
These are the interpersonal resources available to an adolescent or family.
What is social capital?
500
Name the top 5 characteristics of good schools.
What are (1) good schools that emphasize intellectual activities, (2) good teachers who are committed to their students, (3) good schools that are well integrated into the community they serve, (4) good schools are composed of good classrooms, (5) good schools for adolescents are staffed by teachers who have received specific training in teaching adolescents?