Exam 10: Education

The methods of teaching and what needs to be taught:

Today, slightly less than half of the students who entered college as first-year students failed to get degrees.

Today, almost 100 percent of children from the ages of five to seventeen are in school at least some days every school year.

In Germany, schools are divided into:

The college curriculum has evolved from an elective system to a rigid system.

What is true of some state funding of public schools in the past decade?

Accountability of charter schools is achieved by:

The most striking expansion of education in the twentieth century has been in the:

Which of the following countries will pay for 90% of the cost of dissatisfied parents setting up their own school?

A high dropout rate is a problem for the individual and the entire community.

Historically, in the U.S. education is paid for largely by:

There are four reasons why education serves as a fundamental building block of U.S. democracy. Identify and describe two of them.

College programs that are intended to broaden the intellectual horizon of students are called:

Why is the history of U.S. education important in understanding educational problems and possible solutions today?

After World War II the number of two-year colleges rose rapidly.

In 1994, this act was passed, designed to ban discrimination against girls in school.

Scores on the 2011 SAT:

Which group has the highest dropout rate?

Of the 53 million school-aged children in the U.S., about what percent are either home-schooled or attend independent schools?

By 2012 the number of students in colleges and universities had increased more than eight times, to more than 60 million.