Chapter 4
Project Head Start - correct answer-A federal government program designed to help
preschool children from low-income families develop the skills they need for success in
kindergarten and beyond.
Bilingual Education - correct answer-Classes taught in two languages.
Illiterate - correct answer-Unable to read or write.
Back-to-Basics Movement - correct answer-A reform movement which emphasized the need
for more reading, writing, and math in schools for students to succeed in a complex world.
Educational Standards - correct answer-Guidelines defining what students at various levels
should know and be able to do.
National Standards - correct answer-Performance standards for knowledge and skills to be
mastered in specific subject areas.
Competency-Based Education - correct answer-Schools teach toward students
demonstrating mastery and achievement of specified knowledge and skills in subject areas.
Standardized Tests - correct answer-Tests designed to give a measure of students'
performance compared with that of a very large number of other students.
Charter School - correct answer-A public school that operates with freedom from many of
the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.
Programs of Study - correct answer-Rigorous sequences of career and technical and
academic courses to prepare students for successful transition from high school to post
secondary education/ credentialing and employment..
Baby Boom - correct answer-The great increase in births after the end of World War II.
Holocaust - correct answer-The mass slaughter of European civilians and especially those of
Jewish descent, by the Nazis during World War II.
Cold War - correct answer-A decades-long standoff that began in the late 1940s after World
War II, when tensions and competition increased between the Soviet Union on one side and
the United States and its allies in Western Europe on the other.
Civil Rights Movement - correct answer-A social movement in the United States led primarily
by African Americans and their supporters who sought to gain equal rights regardless of
race.
Project Head Start - correct answer-A federal government program designed to help
preschool children from low-income families develop the skills they need for success in
kindergarten and beyond.
Bilingual Education - correct answer-Classes taught in two languages.
Illiterate - correct answer-Unable to read or write.
Back-to-Basics Movement - correct answer-A reform movement which emphasized the need
for more reading, writing, and math in schools for students to succeed in a complex world.
Educational Standards - correct answer-Guidelines defining what students at various levels
should know and be able to do.
National Standards - correct answer-Performance standards for knowledge and skills to be
mastered in specific subject areas.
Competency-Based Education - correct answer-Schools teach toward students
demonstrating mastery and achievement of specified knowledge and skills in subject areas.
Standardized Tests - correct answer-Tests designed to give a measure of students'
performance compared with that of a very large number of other students.
Charter School - correct answer-A public school that operates with freedom from many of
the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.
Programs of Study - correct answer-Rigorous sequences of career and technical and
academic courses to prepare students for successful transition from high school to post
secondary education/ credentialing and employment..
Baby Boom - correct answer-The great increase in births after the end of World War II.
Holocaust - correct answer-The mass slaughter of European civilians and especially those of
Jewish descent, by the Nazis during World War II.
Cold War - correct answer-A decades-long standoff that began in the late 1940s after World
War II, when tensions and competition increased between the Soviet Union on one side and
the United States and its allies in Western Europe on the other.
Civil Rights Movement - correct answer-A social movement in the United States led primarily
by African Americans and their supporters who sought to gain equal rights regardless of
race.
