How education is institutionally organized.
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Which volunteer schools drew students across neighborhoods to aid 1970s integration?
Magnets offered special arts or science programs that drew families across segregated zones.
Mimeograph classroom copies were printed by wrapping a cut stencil around what?
Ink pressed through the stencil's cut lines onto each sheet as the teacher turned the drum.
Which buses carried students to different neighborhoods to integrate public schools in the 1970s?
Paired schools often exchanged students in both directions, so many children rode long morning routes across town.
What did the Dewey Decimal number on a catalog card tell a library patron?
Melvil Dewey devised the 000-to-999 scheme in 1876, grouping books by subject so shelf neighbors share a topic.
Which 1946 federal program funded low-cost US school cafeteria lunches?
Congress created the program after WWII, and it still serves tens of millions of students daily.
What term describes white families leaving city school districts during 1970s desegregation?
The departures shrank city enrollment, leaving some districts nearly as segregated as before busing began.
Which small-carton drink came standard with many 1950s US school lunches?
Federal lunch rules required milk with the meal, usually sold in half-pint cartons.
In 1960s classrooms, what did the beep on a filmstrip record tell the teacher to do?
Sound and pictures ran on separate machines, so the beep kept the record narration matched to the still on screen.
Which office machine largely replaced the mimeograph in schools by the 1980s?
Xerox-style copiers made copies from plain originals, so schools no longer needed to cut stencils.
Which classroom projector needed its film threaded through sprockets and take-up reels?
Threading left slack loops above and below the gate so the claw could pull the film without tearing its sprocket holes.