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Education
Q:
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.
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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
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
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
Q:
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.
Q:
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:
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.
Q:
"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:
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.
Q:
Until the 1960s, most moral values taught in public school were based on ________ values.
A. Jewish
B. secular
C. Christian
D. philosophical
Q:
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
Service learning is a preparation for direct involvement in politics.
Q:
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.
Q:
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?
Q:
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
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:
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.
Q:
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.
Q:
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%
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?
Q:
Which of the following measures was recommended by a 2004 panel of experts on high school reform?
A. adjusting academic standard to correspond with demonstrated levels of student ability
B. abolishing formal and informal tracking
C. increasing the number of tests that evaluate students factual knowledge
D. all of these
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According to the text, ______ is the most successful and popular technique for integrating exceptional children into the general classroom.
A. the use of learning centers
B. cooperative learning
C. the buddy system
D. peer tutoring
Q:
You are appointed to committee tasked with reducing the dropout rate in your school district. Familiar with recent studies of when and why students leave school, you argue that the committee should devote its most urgent efforts to students in which grade?
A. first
B. sixth
C. ninth
D. eleventh
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Which of the following is not a goal of peer-assisted learning?
A. creating more classroom time for teachers to focus on students without exceptional learning needs
B. to enhance the learning of peer tutors
C. to improve the social skills of students with exceptional needs
D. All of these are goals of peer-assisted learning.
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African American students are:
A. twice as likely as whites to drop out of school.
B. slightly more likely than whites to drop out of school.
C. just as likely as whites to drop out of school.
D. less likely than whites to drop out of school.
Q:
Ms. Spivey teachers her science students to remember the planets and their order by using the saying, My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas. Spiveys technique is called a(n):
A. mnemonic.
B. letter strategy.
C. acrostic.
D. all of these
Q:
What qualities define a teacher as competent in teaching a diverse range of students? Compare and contrast teacher-directed, peer-directed, and self-directed teaching and learning activities. What types of resources for meeting the needs of children with exceptionalities are available to teachers today?
Q:
A. mnemonic
B. acrostic
C. SQ3R
D. letter strategy
Answer: C
Q:
Compare and contrast the didactic and the child-centered approaches to teaching. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? For the grade you plan to teach, which approach do you expect to use more? Why?
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In ______, a child is taught to use private speech to guide him/herself through a task in a step-by-step manner.
A. self-instruction
B. self-evaluation
C. self-efficacy
D. self-monitoring
Q:
What are the dangers of focusing too narrowly on academic achievement in schools? What else must schools in the 21st century attempt to accomplish? Why? How do envision working toward these goals for the grade you plan to teach?
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Which of the following statements regarding resiliency in children and adolescents is false?
A. Schools play little role in fostering resiliency in young people; families have the most impact on resiliency.
B. Resilient youths are typically socially and cognitively competent and have high self-esteem.
C. Resiliency can be described as a process.
D. Resiliency is defined as a persons ability to develop competence in the face of adversity and hardship.
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Resilient children tend to possess all of the following characteristics except:
A. an easygoing, adaptable dispositions.
B. a desire to complete all tasks without the help of peers or adults.
C. confidence in their ability to succeed.
D. good problem-solving skills.
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Which of the following teachers is not likely to be successful working with high-risk students?
A. Mr. Richards, who makes sure to take student input into account when developing classroom policies
B. Ms. Swedloff, who is careful not to place the same high expectations on her high-risk students as on her students from stable and supportive environments
C. Mrs. Bonilla, who designs lessons to appeal to the diverse interests and abilities of her students
D. All of these teachers are likely to have positive outcomes.
Q:
Full-service or 21st-century community schools are based in part on the theories of:
A. Sigmund Freud
B. B. F. Skinner
C. Lewis Terman
D. John Dewey
Q:
A 21st-century community school might differ from a traditional public school in which of the following ways?
A. It might be open year-round.
B. It might provide health care services to students and families.
C. It might provide child care on school grounds.
D. all of these
Q:
Alexs father left the family when Alex was 2 years old. Alexs mother is recovering from an addiction and struggles to earn enough at her minimum-wage job to pay the rent on their two-bedroom apartment in one of the citys most dangerous neighbor. Yet despite these difficult circumstances, Alex, who is now in the fifth grade, enjoys and succeeds in school and has a number of friends in his class. Which of the following terms best characterizes Alex?
A. external locus of control
B. resilient
C. self-monitoring
D. preoperational
Q:
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
Q:
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
Q:
As the principal of an elementary school, you want to help your students parents be more involved in school. Using Joyce Epsteins model, you decide to target Type 4 involvement. This will involve all but which of the following?
A. creating family literacy and math programs
B. taking annual surveys of parents to identify talents and needs
C. providing information on homework policies
D. running programs to provide parents with information on the skills required in all subject areas at each grade
Q:
You have a student in your classroom whose interactions with you and with her peers are symptomatic of a negative self-perception. Which of the following strategies would be most likely to improve the this students self-concept?
A. using frequent and specific positive reinforcement
B. designing tasks and activities that allow the student to demonstrate her strengths
C. breaking tasks down into smaller, manageable units
D. all of these
Q:
Compare and contrast child-rearing values and practices for the following cultural groups: African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, Native American. In what ways do cultural differences influence the classroom setting?
Q:
Describe four parenting styles, including their typical effects on childrens development. Compare and contrast inductive versus power-assertion discipline techniques. Based on the research presented in the text, what are the most effective parenting and discipline styles?