Exam 13: The Changing Purposes of American Education

Describe the function of a school improvement plan.

Schools are a mirror of strengths and weaknesses in society. Why is it important for the goals of education to change as society changes?

Discuss whether goals should be stated in behavioral or nonbehavioral terms.

By the 1980s, the attention of national policy reports focused on the needs of which group of students who have tended to be ignored in national priorities for education?

A new focus on outcomes that measured academic results in a child's education led to __________.

What influence do social forces have on the educational goals of a school district?

What were some of the recommendations that were made in the 1983 report, A Nation at Risk ?

Goals serve as a guide for developing

The educational crises of the late 1950s and the early 1980s were similar in that

Educational policy reports in the mid-1980s emphasized

A "high stakes" test is one where the results

___________developed an outline for the development and implementation of school goals in the late 1940s.

The major effect of the Soviet satellite Sputnik on American education was

The primary goal that "All children in America will start school ready to learn" was established by

Behavioral or performance objectives often focus on _____________.