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National Education Policy
Fun Facts
100
This building is the home of the UNC School of Education
What is Peabody Hall?
100
This federal program began in the 1960s and was designed to extend early childhood education opportunities to low income households
What is Head Start
100
She is the North Carolina State Superintendent
Who is June Atkinson
100
The current United States Secretary of Education
Who is Arne Duncan
100
The names of the United States first dogs
Who are Bo and Sunny
200
The South's Oldest Rivalry refers to the college football rivalry between UNC and this school
What is UVA
200
Name two of the five states that did not adopt Common Core Standards
What is Minnesota, Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, Virginia
200
This is the number of counties in North Carolina
What is 100
200
This 1954 US Supreme Court case deemed segregation of public school unconstitutional
What is Brown V. Board of Education
200
This celebrity lobbied congress to support music education. He also looks great in a suit an tie.
Who is Justin Timberlake
300
These are the names of Michael Jordan's children
Who are Jeffery, Marcus, Jasmine, Ysabel, and Victoria
300
In the 2011-2012 school year, these two states had the highest and lowest average teacher salaries, respectively
What are New York and Oklahoma
300
This is the name of the office responsible for overseeing North Carolina school operations
What is the Department of Public Instruction
300
The United States Department of Education celebrates this during the month of April
What is poetry
300
The state reptile of North Carolina
What is the Eastern Box Turtle
400
Beginning as a 6-week normal school during the summer, UNC's School of Education was formally established in this year
What is 1913
400
You've heard of this school because you watched Grey's Anatomy, although now you know it also has the #1 ranked School of Education in the country
What is Johns Hopkins
400
The number os administrative units, or school systems, in North Carolina
What is 115
400
This Massachusetts politician and brother-in-law to Nathaniel Hawthorne is sometimes called the 'Father of the Common School Movement'
Who is Horace Mann
400
The birthplace and nationality of Pope Francis
What is Argentina
500
In 1998 She was named the first female dean of the School of Education
Who is Madeleine Grumet
500
The number of Charter School applications received by North Carolina on the December 6, 2013 deadline- to be considered for opening by 2015. Yeah, we actually did cover this
What is 71
500
She was the North Carolina state teacher of the year
Who is Karyn Dickerson
500
First referred to by its familiar name under the Kennedy-Johnson administration, this measure was recently challenged at the University of Texas
What is Affirmative Action
500
Anatidaephobia referes to the fear of this, and may or may not be real
What is the fear that somewhere, somehow, you are being watched by a duck