Brown v Board
Mendez v Westminster
Authors
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
The state where Brown v Board began
What is Kansas?
100
Poverty, segregation and employment in low-skilled occupations characterized the experience of this Californian community during the era of school segregation.
Who are the Mexicans?
100
He is best known for his writings about cultural literacy.
Who is ED Hirsch, Jr?
100
The NAACP is an acronym standing for this.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
100
This is the number of the classroom we're in
What is EDUC 231?
200
The ruling of Brown v Board overturned this 1896 case.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
200
According to one study of agricultural workers in this US region, three fourths of the fruit and vegetable workers and half of the cotton workers were Mexican in 1922.
What is the Southwest?
200
These two gentleman argued against the notion that "the poor are poor because they are intellectually incompetent"
Who are Bowles and Gintis?
200
In the context of Brown v Board or Mendez v Westminster, "De Jure" means this.
What is segregation that existed because of local laws that mandated the segregation?
200
This is our instructor's name.
What is Michael Suarez?
300
The year in which all Brown is binding in all states.
What is 1958?
300
Dirt streets, makeshift shacks, dirt floors, and single-room habitations for entire families were common conditions in hundreds of Mexican neighborhoods called this.
What are barrios?
300
We read this author's 'Testing and Accountability, Historically Considered'
Who is Diane Ravitch?
300
A barrio translates to this word in English.
What is a neighborhood?
300
This is the name of our class.
What is Social Foundations of Education?
400
The Ladsen-Billings reading argues that Brown passed because of this
What is The Cold War / The War on Communism
400
During this era, in one southern California district, courses in "the care of infants, cleanliness, house sanitation, and economical house management (sewing and cooking)" were given to these people.
Who are Mexican Women?
400
He is the Father of the "Banking" theory of Education.
Who is Paulo Freire?
400
The LULAC is an acronym standing for this.
What is The League of United Latin American Citizens?
400
This is my last name.
What is Bates?
500
After Chief Justice Fred Vinson died, President Eisenhower appointed this man as Chief Justice.
Who is Earl Warren?
500
Segregated schools functioned not only as the center of the socialization of the Mexican child, but also as laboratories for research into this "problem"
What is the "Mexican Educational Problem?"
500
He is the educational philosopher who discussed the difference between 'critical thinking' and 'thinking skills."
Who is McLaren?
500
To take a group of foreigners and acculturate them linguistically and culturally in America is called this.
What is to Americanize?
500
In 2012, Halloween is on this day of the week.
What is Wednesday?