Exam 14: Education

In 2013, eighth graders eligible for _____ averaged 27 points lower in math than students who were not.

Which of the following is a statistic the chapter cites as support of the idea that schools serve girls better than boys?

According to Thornburgh, "Dropping out of high school today is to your societal health what _____, an indicator of a host of poor outcomes to follow, from low lifetime earnings to high incarceration rates to a high likelihood that your children will drop out of high school and start the cycle anew."

What education act was signed by George W. Bush in 2001 in an effort to standardize public education in the United States?

What is one of the problems related to local control of public schools identified in the chapter?

According to Carey and Rosa, federal state, and local policymakers give _____ resources to students who have more resources, and _____ to those who have less.

Which type of students are five times more likely to receive special accommodations for a learning disability when they take the SAT?

California officials predicted that by 2014, all 6,063 public schools serving _____ would be declared in need of restructuring under No Child Left Behind.

Who set the standards for the Common Core, which have been adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia?

Critics of the Common Core argue that it

Assessment tests given to kids in fourth through eighth grade show that average reading and math scores are _____ for children in high-poverty schools compared to students in low-poverty schools.

Supporters of _____ argue that states have "dummied down standards" and that students should be held to a higher expectation.

Which statement explains why youth from families with $200,000 or more income score more than 300 points higher on the SAT than youth from families with an income of $20,000 or less?

According to the chapter, school is analogous to a conveyer belt with people of all social classes getting on at the same time. They leave the conveyer belt

The funding of public schools through local property taxes can be considered discriminatory because

Achievement gaps in reading, writing, and mathematics persist between minority and White students. With the exception of _____ students, minority students are much more likely to be below the basic levels of math upon entering high school.

In the 1990s, studies conducted at Wellesley and by the American Association of University Women argued that _____ were being shortchanged by schools. In the 21st century, other researchers say that _____ are the ones who are not being well-served by schools.

Public schools are primarily controlled at the _____ level.

Despite the arguments about whether boys or girls are being failed more by the schools, the fact remains that for every statistic that indicates a gender gap, there is an even larger gap by

Amy Chua's book _____, a comic memoir about how she tried to raise her two daughters the same way her strict Chinese immigrant parents raised her, but was forced to pull back when her younger daughter rebelled, set off a firestorm of controversy.