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EDFO 420 2020 Final ExamA nation at risk Correct Answer: Developed under Reagan's Commission on Excellence in Education.
America was perceived as falling behind technologically
The need to adopt a system of increased tests & tests perception, accountability based on test results.
Goal was to privatize education and get rid of the department of education
Describe the reform agenda post Ronald Reagan Correct Answer: Cut the department of education
Tax credits to private schools
Integrate prayer back into schools
It mandated standardized testing and lowered the intensity of criticism against teachers and created
more parental involvement.
School Choice Correct Answer: Allowed parents to apply their "share" of public school funds to the cost
of any school that they choose to attend - public or private.
The Voucher Movement Correct Answer: Tax credit that allows students and parents choices as to
where they will place their child.
Public schools now had to compete with each other.
Head Start Correct Answer: In 1965, it began to help preschool aged children from low income families.
Provides an integrated program of health care, parental involvement, education, and social services.
Grads of head start score better on intelligence and achievement tests, have better health status, and
have socio-emotional traits to help them adjust to school.
Privatization Correct Answer: The process of turning some responsibilities of the government over to
private organizations on the assumption that they can administer and deliver services more effectively
and inexpensively.
Sputnik Correct Answer: 1957, instigated a fear in the US that they were losing the space race.
The US felt that schools weren't preparing kids well enough in math and science
Led to the passing of NDEA
America 2000: An Education Strategy Correct Answer: George H.W. Bush initiative that had politically
oriented proposals, promoted standards but they were voluntary.
, It was similar to Reagan and had 6 stated goals but they were unrealistic and they didn't provide a path
to teach them.
Pushed vouchers and voluntary testing programs and alternative teacher certifications. Never met it's
goals and was over ambitious and unrealistic.
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Correct Answer: Designed to increase accountability standards for
primary and secondary schools.
Mandated testing - no more voluntary testing
"High stakes" testing requires that students from all cultural groups and backgrounds meet the same
educational benchmarks in various subjects
Schools that didn't measure up had consequences imposed.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Correct Answer: Award board certification to
extraordinary teachers whose skills and knowledge indicate their high level of achievement.
Cultural Literacy Correct Answer: The information that an average American citizen can be expected to
know.
Argued for a model of literacy that focuses the attention of children on a common western cultural
heritage.
Site-based management Correct Answer: School level management, often by school councils composed
of teachers, administrators, and community representatives.
Can create conflict between teachers and administrators
The "manufactured crisis" (David Berliner) Correct Answer: Found that "A Nation At Risk" was a series of
distortion and outright lies, no dramatic decline in student performance.
Evaluating No Child Left Behind Correct Answer: It was supported by democrats and republicans.
Improved education for students of color, living in poverty.
Aims to raise achievement gap by setting annual test-score targets for subgroups of students based on a
goal of 100% proficiency.
2 major breakthroughs: every child has the right to a qualified teacher, and it showed the difference in
student performance based on race and class.
Diversity Penalty Correct Answer: "Failure" happens as the states raise their proficiency levels to a
national benchmark set far above grade level.
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