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The Puzzle of Education

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In the “banking concept,” education “becomes an act of ________,” from teacher to student.
“Students are 20% of our population, they are 100% of our ________.”
Several methods have been tried to close this gap, but the only strategy that has worked has been the _________ of schools.
The cop’s opinion of who should primarily deal with “disruptive” students.
In the ________ class school, “work is getting the right answer...one must follow directions, but the directions often call for some figuring, some choice, some decision making."
In America, in an effort to ______ them, thousands of Indian children were taken from their homes and sent to boarding schools.
She plans to attend _______ on a full scholarship.
Teachers now ______ up with students when problems occur to facilitate conversations, encourage empathy and force students to take responsibility for their actions.
In a study from Berkley, black children who attended desegregated schools were more likely to graduate and less likely to be __________ as adults.
“If you wanted to change a culture in a generation...you would change the way it _______ its children.
Most of the people covered by DACA live in this state. (abbr.)
Schools that do not meet state standards can be put on probation or lose their _________ .
Kids are being pushed out of schools and into the criminal justice system because of zero-tolerance policies and the overuse of ________ in schools.
In the film “I Am,” the “power of ____” was emphasized, meaning that we can each make a difference in our society.
#1 predictor of whether kids will drop out of school
The difference in scores on standardized testing between black and white students is called the __________ gap.
In the painting “American Progress” the white woman leading the settlers west was carrying a school ____ in her arms.
Author of "Still Separate, Still Unequal, America’s Educational Apartheid."
Google, Facebook, and other entities are using invisible __________ to edit our view of the internet.
The hardest conversation that school counselors have to have with undocumented students is that they can not legally get a _______ license.
Freire describes the style of education as ________, because the teachers talk about subjects and the students listen in a detached way.
“A process that involves conscious knowledge gained through teaching...involves explanation and analysis…”
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In the working class schools, “work is following the steps of a procedure… mechanical, involving ___-behavior and very little decision-making or choice.”
Chicago school’s rote education style accused of turning students into these.
Baldwin warns America that she must find a way to use the tremendous potential and _______ that a child represents or it will be destroyed by it.
Modern day schooling was compared to asking a _____ to climb a tree.
In her valedictorian speech, she revealed that she was an ___________ immigrant.
In the ______-posing style of education, students are “critical co-investigators in dialogue with the teacher.”
According to Brown v. Board of Education, “separate educational facilities are inherently ________.”
DACA protects nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants called ________, brought to the US by their parents as children.
“To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way [one] achieves his own ________.”
Medical students worry that if DACA is repealed, that they won’t be able to get into a __________ program to complete their training.
“Your own personal, unique universe of information that you live in online” is your ________. (2 words)
Students are described as “________, ...to be filled by the teacher.”
Largest labor union in the US (abbr.)
“Man is a social animal. He cannot exist without a _______.”
Schools “were made to train people to work in _______.”
“A process of [getting] something subconsciously by exposure to models and a process of trial and error, without a process of formal teaching…. How most people come to control their first language.”
The region of the US with the least amount of segregation in schools for black students.
“A socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or a social network.”
What today’s media calls segregated schools.
In India, parents say that “modern schooling” has changed people’s focus-- that they now value individual success and _______ rather than the traditional ways of kindness and cooperation.
DACA was created by President _______ on June 15, 2012.
In the Executive _____ school, “work is developing one’s analytical intellectual powers.”