Contemporary Issues in Education

The improvement of school districts to become more competitive is a by-product of

What are the biggest sources of state funding

A part of the Education Amendment of 1972 that prohibits gender discrimination

A organization founded in 1975 that provides teachers legal protection & prof. development

Legislation that requires schools to give state-wide tests and professional development

The notion that classic ideas are relevant and should be the focus of contemporary education

Which entity is most likely to conduct educational research and development?

Essentialists would be likely to place more emphasis on

Culturally responsive teaching includes all of the following except

Which of the following is a teacher centered philosophy of education?

The fairest way to test a large number of participants for comparison

The chief state school officer manages

Progressivism's foremost educational advocate was

Immediately after the release of A Nation at Risk, most school reformers focused on

One who believes in existentialism believes schooling should

Children from low income families

How much of the cost of public education does the federal government typically fund?

Educators may join teacher unions, a collective bargaining unit, who negotiate salary and

Deficit theory teaches us that

What would be an example of zero tolerance?

Teacher salaries

Theory that intelligence is differentiated into various specific modalities instead of one

Meyer vs Nebraska decided that the state(s)

Which of the following is a positive aspect of teaching?

Which of the following is a stereotype?

A teacher who focuses on celebrating the heroes of other cultures is practicing what approach?

Learning by doing is a foundation of

open enrollment is the term given to

A teacher who suspects a child is the victim of child abuse

Scaffolding is a teaching technique most closely related to

Bilingual maintenance emphasizes

Which type of test is used to set a baseline for student abilities?

Student freedom of press would not protect the printing of an article that

a retired teacher running in an at large election would serve on the school board as a

Lau vs Nichols was about discrimination based on

What approach is used when a teacher spends 1 week talking about important female inventors

Local communities raise most of their educational funding through

High stakes test scores most likely contribute to

Accommodating group and individual cultural differences is a part of

___ believes free will is an illusion & human nature is shaped by the environment

Today's focus on stronger standards & more testing of both students and teachers fits

Which of the following has not been linked to effective schooling?

The Buckley Amendment ensures the rights of ___________ to access educational records

state governments typically do not

The four broad goals of public education are academic, vocational, social/civic, and

the use of a system of positive reinforcement to encourage desired behavior is based on

State Constitutions guarantee the right to an adequate education except

Cooperative learning is a good technique to use when working with

A teacher asks class what experience they have had with H20 in nature b4 teaching the H20 cycle

Research on effective school leaders suggests that such leaders

Individual states retain responsibility for education due to the

The AFT is best described as a

The perennialist teacher would have no concern with

Which annual state-based salary matches that of a beginning teacher with a 4 year degree

Lessons delivered in a sheltered/simplified English vocab. are using__approach to bilingual ed.

Public schools in the United States are funded by which 3 levels of government?

In recent years, the Supreme Court has put the responsibility of equalizing education on

Someone in favor of social action curriculum would rate which goal the highest?

Pickering vs. Bd of Ed protects teachers'

The desegregation of public schools took place in 1954 as a result of this landmark case

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