Exam 15: Education

The self-fulfilling prophecy __________.

Tracking is a way of monitoring a child's academic performance to ensure that he or she is performing up to standard.

__________ are/is recommended to increase equality in education.

No Child Left Behind requires states to establish standards in __________.

The idea behind having common educational standards for primary and secondary education was to close the gaps that plague education and to make schools accountable for success or failure of their students.

According to research cited in the text, __________ seems to enhance a student's school performance and __________ seems to lead to behaviors that can impair it.

A student who lives in a section of a city with a lot of rental housing and low property values is likely to _________.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only _____ of the nation's eighth graders are proficient in math.

When schools determine learning groups based on the results of an assessment of some kind it is known as __________ and is highly controversial.

Tracking __________.

Some people think that schools should compete for students by opening up a free market for public education. They are likely to support __________.

Discuss how the financing of public education reflects the economic divide that exists in society.

What feature of the current education system contributes to its nature of replicating class structures?

In what ways are college opportunities affected by stratification? What would be the advantage of offering a free higher education to all who qualify? Ideal

When Pedro's mom was in middle school, she spent a lot of time memorizing facts and dates. Pedro does not think these skills are particularly useful in today's global world. Instead, he would rather focus on thinking outside the box, thinking sociologically, and developing good people skills. He would like to __________.

A system of school vouchers is a __________.

Under the original Common Core legislation, states that set ____ proficiency benchmarks were _____.

"Sifting" and "sorting" are techniques used to ensure that the most able students are identified and provided resources with which to attain the highest of educational goals.

The practice of awarding college applicants a certain number of points or credit automatically based on their race is an example of __________.

Mark has been assigned to the Blue Fish reading group, which focuses on simple sentences and recognizing basic punctuation. His friends in the more advanced Red Fish reading group make fun of him and Mark begins to think of himself as stupid. He is suffering from __________.