Identify the percentage of African American teachers in U.S. public schools.
Identify the part of the Educational Amendments of 1972 that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives states and local districts less flexibility in how they raise standards and undertake essential reforms to improve student achievement and teacher effectiveness compared to No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
Realizing they needed a way to educate leaders for their communities, the Puritan colonists established Latin grammar schools, the first of which opened in Boston in 1635.
Curriculum is the process of collecting information to find out what students are learning.
Which psychologist’s work became known as discovery learning?
Which psychologist is credited with the stage theory of cognitive development?
F. Skinner was the pioneer of the theory of operant conditioning.
In the first 150 years of nationhood, high quality education was readily available to all children, regardless of gender, geography, or social capital.
Which educational philosophy holds that the purpose of education is to learn specific knowledge provided by core academic disciplines?
There were ______ days in a school year during the early 1800s.
What is the simplest form of Bloom’s educational objectives?
In which domain are Bloom’s educational objectives categorized?
Identify the term that helps teachers integrate, transform, and represent subject matter knowledge in ways that are understandable to students.
Pedagogy is the personal teaching philosophy that gets expressed through instructional practice.
Which psychologist took into account the social environment in which learning occurs?
What act did Congress enact in 1785 after gaining independence from Great Britain in the late 1700s that set aside land for public schools?
Catholic immigrants objected to reading the King James version of the bible, which led to the creation of this type of school.
In what year did the year that tax-supported public high school become the dominant form of secondary education?
Identify the school that Benjamin Franklin created offering a variety of subjects, ranging from science and mathematics to athletics, navigation, and bookkeeping. It was open to both girls and boys—if their parents could afford the tuition.
Which individual became the first head of the Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1881?
About one third of U.S. public schools have no teachers of color on the faculty.
Identify the year junior high school was established to meet emotional and intellectual needs of students in Grades 7, 8, and 9.
Identify the assessment in a lesson that relates directly to tasks or examples in the “real world” outside the classroom.
refers to the vocabulary words that students need to learn and use to participate and engage in meaningful ways in the content area.