Students couldn't be successful and school systems would fail miserably without these
What is educated teachers?
100
Kids from these schools have a higher rate of graduation.
What are private schools?
100
In a private school, each student is required to pay this in order to help fund the school.
What is tuition?
100
Pushes teachers to be qualified and highly educated.
What are incentives?
200
In some states, teachers are eventually offered this contractual benefit, which guarantees them a job for life.
What is tenure?
200
According to "Waiting for Superman," a well-educated, hard-working person, who has the ability to save urban schools from failure.
What is a "super teacher?"
200
!!!!DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
This Act was put into place by President George W. Bush in 2002 to boost the educational performance of children in America.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001?
200
Funding has done this for the past few years, adding to the struggle of properly educating public school kids.
What is decrease?
200
Holds at least a bachelor degree from a four-year college, fully certificated or licensed by state, demonstrates competence in each core academic subject area.
What is a highly qualified teacher?
300
The main reason many teachers choose to leave private schools.
What is low salary?
300
One of the most appealing reasons to become a teacher: opportunity to get a degree and licensure in teaching, go to work, and then continue to go to school to attain a higher degree.
What are continuing education programs?
300
This method has been tried for decades, in order to boost student achievement due to a teacher's ability to pay more attention to the students' needs.
What are lower class sizes?
300
About half of public school funding comes from this type of tax.
What is a local property tax?
300
Enhanced school funding, upgraded standards for students, teacher, principals and schools of education.
What is the Elementary and Secondary School Reform Act?
400
What many private school administrations allow their teachers to do, where as public schools don't.
What is decision making/having more say in what they get to teach?
400
Is a cycle that once started is hard to stop. The reason many students aren't doing well.
What is failure pattern?
400
Because some teachers pass students along without them actually learning the things necessary for the next grade, this creates a larger what?
What is the achievement gap?
400
These schools are funded according to enrollment (also called average daily attendance, or ADA), and receive funding from the district and the state according to the number of students attending.
What are charter schools?
400
This program selects high school students and pays for their college tuition in exchange for several years of teaching.
What is the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program?
500
Is the percent of teachers that make more money than the average professional worker.
What is 11%?
500
They get more money than teachers that teach anywhere else.
What are public school teachers?
500
Parents are more likely to be what in a private school kid's education because they are paying for it.
What is involved?
500
These are state-funded "scholarships" that pay for students to attend private school rather than public school.
What are school vouchers?
500
12% base salary increase
By what percent did North Carolina raise its base salary of all teachers who were able to achieve the distinction of National Board Certification?