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Q:
Discuss the similarities between federal legislation benefiting students with disabilities with other civil rights legislation. How does it differ?
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According to this chapter, which of the following is the reason schools sort students by ability and talent?
A. Students will pursue jobs that match their educational interest.
B. Students will be better prepared for higher paying jobs in the global market.
C. Students will perform better on standardized tests.
D. Students will be prepared to be more efficient workers.
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The 1895 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
A. provided the separate but equal ruling.
B. stated that separate education was inherently unequal.
C. stated that all women were to be provided with equal opportunities.
D. freed slaves in the wake of the Civil War.
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According to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, what makes a nation's workforce uniquely attractive to a global market?
A. diverse skills, supported by lifelong learning
B. hard work, supported by rigorous education
C. intelligence, supplemented by technological know-how
D. pride in its work, supported by patriotic spirit
E. lack of immigrant labor undermining local workforces
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The concept of "separate but equal" was overthrown by what seminal U.S. Supreme Court case?
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Tokao Ozawa v. United States
C. Oliver v. Michigan State Board of Education
D. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Q:
The term that refers to middle class parents influencing their children's behavior through reasoning is called
A. concerted cultivation.
B. accomplishment of natural growth.
C. cultural capital.
D. educational readiness.
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Which of the following was not a consequence of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
A. It put all control of public schools in the hands of state and local government.
B. It sped up the process of desegregation in the South.
C. The control of federal dollars began to be used to shape school policies.
D. The Office of Education started policing whether school systems were segregated.
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Cultural capital refers to
A. the economic value of a person's behavior, attitudes and knowledge.
B. the social status of a student.
C. the amount of money a person has in the bank.
D. All these answers are correct.
Q:
Which of the following is a factor in the recent increase in school segregation?
A. increased separation between where people of different races reside
B. the lack of legal precedent because the Supreme Court has not revisited the issue since Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
C. the increase in minority enrollment in private and charter schools
D. studies showing that increased racial segregation lessens minority dropout rates
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According to this chapter, economic Gary Becker referred to the American economy as a ___________ economy.
A. capitalist
B. post-industrial
C. knowledge
D. educational
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Which of the following is a problem associated with second-generation segregation?
A. student-created racial boundaries
B. preferential treatment for minorities
C. dress code violations
D. gang-related violence
Q:
The economic model of the War on Poverty links an inadequate education to
A. poor diet
B. poor medical care
C. low-quality housing
D. low-income jobs
E. All of these answers are correct.
Q:
Antipoverty programs include all of the following except
A. food stamps.
B. Head Start.
C. housing subsidies.
D. higher attendance at school and work.
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Human capital education for the global economy emphasizes which of the following subject areas?
A. history
B. literacy
C. arts education
D. social studies
Q:
Family factors that most strongly correlate to math skills upon entering kindergarten include
A. exposure to performing arts.
B. ownership of computer.
C. preschool.
D. All of these answers are correct.
Q:
Learning societies and lifelong learning are not essential parts of the global educational system.
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One of the shifts that have occurred as a result of the emphasis on education for the global economy is the priority given to the economic goals of education.
Q:
There is no correlation between the ownership of a home computer and reading skills upon entering kindergarten.
Q:
Horace Mann believed that even people without children economically benefited from schools.
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According to the chapter, working-class parents emphasize obedience and neatness in child-rearing.
Q:
Describe the biases of labor market conditions in regard to educational attainment, income, and gender. Do you think education can combat or correct these biases? Why or why not?
Q:
Do you believe human capital theory is an effective method for educating students prepared to compete in a global labor market? Why or why not?
Q:
Educational inflation happens when
A. the price of schooling rises sharply, unrelated to its quality.
B. education attempts to solve the problem of poverty and does not succeed.
C. jobs require more education, but the actual skills required to do them do not change.
D. schools focus on job training to the exclusion of skills needed for college success.
Q:
Politicians often blame schools and teachers for the economic problems of our society. Do you think education is the proper forum to change societal problems? Why or why not?
Q:
According to this chapter, which of the following statements about the labor market is true?
A. High-skilled workers' wages are rising, while low-skilled workers' wages are falling.
B. Wages for both high-skilled and low-skilled workers are rising.
C. Wages for both high-skilled and low-skilled workers are falling.
D. Outsourcing of jobs to other countries has no real impact on wages in the United States.
E. Schools contribute significantly to the ability of low-skilled workers and their families to rise above their conditions.
Q:
Separation of students by family income in school is demonstrated by
A. the common-school model of schooling through its practice of placing students into different educational groups.
B. the different test scores of kindergartners.
C. the methods of ability grouping and tracking.
D. None of these answers is correct.
Q:
The idea that schools reinforce differences and replicates social class structure is known as
A. social reproduction.
B. tracking.
C. inequality of opportunity.
D. economic segregation.
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"At-risk" factors for students include
A. having one or more older sibling who left high school before completion.
B. having average grades of C or lower from grades 6 to 8.
C. being in the lowest socioeconomic status.
D. being in a single-parent household during grade 8.
E. All these answers are correct.
Q:
Competition for socioeconomic standing takes place outside of school in the ________ model.
A. high-stakes testing
B. ability group
C. common-school
D. sorting-machine
Q:
Which of the following factors affects one's income-earning potential?
A. educational attainment
B. socioeconomic status
C. race
D. gender
E. All these answers are correct.
Q:
Which court case resulted in the outlawing of Bible reading in public school as part of a religious exercise?
A. Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County et al. v. Earls et al.
B. Abington School District v. Schempp
C. Engel v. Vitale
D. None of these answers is correct.
Q:
The following are all part of the sorting-machine model of schooling except:
A. scientific and professional opinions are used to classify students.
B. students are placed in ability groups or academic tracks based upon individual talents.
C. equality of opportunity is guaranteed by the impartial decisions of teachers, counselors, and standardized tests.
D. all students receive a common education.
Q:
The tradition of school proms dates back to the early 1800s.
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Which of the following educational practices has not limited the role of schools in providing equality of educational opportunities?
A. counseling methods
B. equalizing school expenditures
C. ability grouping
D. teacher expectations
Q:
The Children of the Rainbow curriculum in the New York City public schools includes teaching diverse family structures, including that of gay and lesbian families.
Q:
Equality of educational opportunity would mean that everyone has an equal chance to receive an education.
Q:
The No Child Left Behind Act's guidelines for secular character education are clear and easy to implement.
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Educational attainment alone is the sole factor in determining one's economic success.
Q:
One original goal of home economics courses was to teach household budgeting.
Q:
The second-most amount of money is spent in school districts with the highest percentage of students from families below the poverty level.
Q:
As students' time in public schools has increased, there has been a corresponding decrease in crime rates.
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White non-Hispanics have the highest median income in the U.S.
Q:
Politicians often blame schools and teachers for the social problems of our society. Do you think education is the proper forum to change societal problems? Why or why not?
Q:
If you believe that everyone has an equal educational opportunity, blame shifts to the social system when inequalities arise.
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Select a social issue from this chapter and discuss historical and current concerns regarding it, public education's efforts to address it, and results of these efforts. Social issues include sex education, homosexuality, character education, school violence, bullying, nutrition, and drug and alcohol abuse
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Equality of opportunity through education is the best means of creating a stable and equitable society. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Defend your answer.
Q:
High-stakes testing refers to
A. tests that will affect a student's grade for the rest of a semester.
B. tests that will cause a student to drop out of school.
C. tests that determine a person's career and job opportunities.
D. tests given to at-risk students to determine their need.
E. tests that admit or deny students to prestigious private schools.
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Social reproduction is
A. a controversial practice taught in sex-education courses.
B. a means by which society passes down the best of its culture to its youth.
C. the practice of separating students according to ability level.
D. the process by which schools separate students by family background, with higher income students being granted more opportunities for better jobs with higher incomes.
E. both a means by which society passes down the best of its culture to its youth and a process by which schools ensure that students from wealthy families continue to live the lives to which they've become accustomed.
Q:
By instilling common moral and political values in public education, leaders have hoped to
A. reduce crime.
B. build loyalty to the U.S. in recent immigrants.
C. prevent political revolution.
D. All of these answers are correct.
Q:
The No Child Left Behind Act includes all of the following as elements of secular character education EXCEPT
A. civic virtue and responsibility.
B. chastity.
C. justice and fairness.
D. giving.
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One major goal of the recently adopted Common Core Standards is to
A. teach reading, writing, and arithmetic.
B. socialize students to obey government laws.
C. prevent teenage pregnancy.
D. prepare students for jobs in a global economy.
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The goals of early home economics courses included
A. providing housewives with more free time for education.
B. persuading immigrant children to abandon the diet of their parents for the new American cuisine.
C. helping to reduce alcoholism by making the home a pleasant place.
D. All of these answers are correct.
Q:
Johann Fichte suggested which of the following means of creating loyal citizens through public education?
A. teaching students that the rights of the individual are more important than the benefits to the state.
B. require students to enroll in the army.
C. giving students time off from school in order to vote.
D. learning patriotic songs and stories.
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The No Child Left Behind Act prohibits using money granted through the legislation to
A. promote or encourage sexual activity, whether heterosexual or homosexual.
B. teach that mutually faithful monogamy is the accepted standard for sexual activity.
C. implement secular character education programs in schools.
D. extend students the right to write about religious figures in class assignments.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school administrators can punish student speech they find to be lewd and indecent in which case?
A. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District
B. Board of Island Union Free School District v. Steven A. Pico
C. Bethel v. Fraser
D. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Q:
A 2006 study by Fight Crime: Invest in kids found that _____ of teens and _____ of younger children had been threatened online with physical harm.
A. 17%; 7%
B. 25%; 21%
C. 10%; 4%
D. 91%; 39%
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The Texas State Board of Education rejected the textbook Environmental Science: Creating a Sustainable Future because they considered it to be
A. too expensive.
B. anti-free enterprise.
C. hostile to Christians.
D. poorly written.
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Until the 1960s, most moral values taught in public school were based on ________ values.
A. Jewish
B. secular
C. Christian
D. philosophical
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Measuring voter participation rates in history can be difficult because
A. in early America, voting was restricted to property owners.
B. women were not allowed to vote until 1920.
C. the Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed many barriers to voting by minority groups.
D. All of these answers are correct.
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Which of the following are social goals of public schools?
A. reducing crime
B. regulating sexuality
C. creating a sense of community
D. improving children's health
E. All these answers are correct.
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For Thomas Jefferson, the most important political goal of public schools was teaching arithmetic.
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William Godwin believed that the government would use public schools as a means of political control over its citizens.
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Service learning is a preparation for direct involvement in politics.
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Texas is a major determiner of textbook content because it buys a significant share of the nation's textbooks.
Q:
In the court case Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlemier, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school administrators have no right to control the content of student publications.
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Do you believe elected representatives should determine which values and attitudes are taught in public school? Why or why not?
Q:
Should the public schools develop emotional or patriotic attachments to symbols of the State through the use of songs, literature, and history? Why or why not?
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When this book describes schools as a form of social control, it means
A. they teach students moral values and social responsibility, which help society remain stable.
B. they extend their influence into students' diets, sexuality, and social lives in addition to shaping how they reason and learn.
C. they have, in the past, attempted to educate immigrant children to abandon their parents' culture.
D. All these answers are correct.
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According to the National Service Learning Clearinghouse, service-learning experiences can
A. offer opportunities to engage in problem-solving.
B. promote teamwork, community, and citizenship.
C. address complex problems in complex situations.
D. be personally meaningful to participants.
E. All of these answers are correct.
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The "Sex Respect" program is a sex education program that
A. teaches the social, psychological, and health gains of abstinence.
B. focuses on the most successful, proven methods of birth control.
C. teaches students to value people of all sexual orientations using the books Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate.
D. has been denied funds made available by Title V of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act.
E. teaches the social, psychological, and health gains of abstinence and has been denied funds made available by Title V of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act.
Q:
The Board of Education of which of the following states voted to remove evolution from the state science standards?
A. Texas
B. California
C. West Virginia
D. Kansas
Q:
The No Child Left Behind Act explicitly supports the inclusion of which of the following in schools?
A. secular character education
B. religious character education
C. creative and competitive education at every age level
D. the teaching of Macbeth, Rumpelstiltskin, and the Wizard of Oz
E. the teaching of Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate
Q:
Equality of opportunity refers to
A. everyone having the same chance to pursue wealth.
B. the ability of all to achieve equal income and status.
C. the poor being able to run for elected office.
D. how students learn to obey rules.
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Socialization of students includes
A. classroom instruction.
B. requiring community service.
C. following school rules.
D. All of these answers are correct.
Q:
Write an essay proposing at least three measures to reduce the dropout rate in your local school district. Make sure to justify your answers with references to research studies and developmental theory.
Q:
In what ways can educators be adocates for children and youth?
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If you choose to adopt a didactic instructional approach in your classroom, you can expect, based on research findings, to see which of the following outcomes?
A. an increase in your students basic reading skills
B. better perfomance in oral language tasks in your class than in the classes of more child-centered teachers
C. both of these
D. neither of these
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Students in child-centered classrooms significantly outperform their counterparts in didactic classrooms in which of the following areas?
A. problem solving
B. conceptual grouping
C. mathematics
D. both problem solving and conceptual grouping
Q:
Which of the following usually accompanies the transition to middle school?
A. an increase in student motivation
B. increased difficulties with social adjustment
C. declines in student achievement
D. both increased social adjustment dificulties and declines in achievement
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What percentage of students leave high school qualified to attend a four-year college?
A. 17 percent
B. 32 percent
C. 48 percent
D. 65 percent