Education Crossword Quiz

1. Promotes active learning through problem solving, projects, and hands-on experiences
4. People that grew up using electronics and their digital "language"
6. Emphasized increased funding for less wealthy schools and higher achievement for financially poor and minority students; introduced new measures for holding schools responsible for student progress
7. Students choose their own course of study as part of their effort to figure out their place in life
8. Whites living in different neighborhoods than minorities
12. Collecting information to determine progress of students' learning
13. Learner-centered; when a person adjusts their mental model to incorporate new experiences and understand new information
14. All that you know and believe about teaching
15. Testing targeting toward Junior and Seniors in high school to increase relevancy

2. Measure of the standard of living that relates to family's income
3. Most influential educator of 20th century; educational philosophy is referred to as progressivism.
5. Teacher-centered learning theory; teachers are in absolute control through the stimuli they present in class
9. A philosophy that teachers must impart the key elements of the core academic disciplines (math, science, literature, and history), so all students have access to this basic knowledge
10. Legislation that builds pathway for college and career readiness for students by the end of high school
11. Publicly funded elementary and secondary schools that are granted a special charter by state or a local education agency