Exam 14: Education

According to the chapter, which course is most likely to be opposed in U.S. public high schools?

In Mrs. Clark's third-grade classroom in a Wisconsin suburb, subjects begin and end _____. This is an example of the preoccupation with order and control in American schools.

Contrary to popular myths about the Common Core

According to Zuckerman, the system of American education is no longer relevant because

Kathy, a student in a typical U.S. school, is not a competitive person. Which of the following is NOT an area in which her participation is determined by competetion among her classmates?

Which of the following has a profound effect on student performance, because when students are overrated, they tend to overproduce and when they are underrated, they underachieve?

Which of the following is a negative lesson that can be learned by children in schools with a competitive environment?

Under NCLB, each state was permitted to set its own proficiency benchmarks to be determined by standardized tests. According to the 2007 report "The Proficiency Illusion," improvements in the passing rates on states can be largely explained by

What is a state-driven initiative to develop international benchmarks for all states so that all students are prepared to be competitive in a globalized market?

In the United States there are 14,000 school districts across the 50 states. However, until the current millennium, there had been no attempt to

Critics of educational reforms such as private schools, charter schools, and voucher systems point out that these trends are working against

The term _____ is used for the percentage of 16- to 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school diploma or equivalency.

For most individuals, having _____ college education translates into a lifetime of lower earnings and low-mobility jobs.

Americans' faith in education is based on the assumption that

Janie is a fifth-grader in New Hampshire whose family is moving to Nevada in the middle of the school year. Which scenario is most likely, based on the fact that both states have adopted the Common Core standards?

School segregation was outlawed in a series of Supreme Court decisions between the 1950s and the 1970s. Today, at every level, children tend to go to a school

The chapter argues that the self-fulfilling prophecies associated with _____ are at least partly responsible for the tendency of students in the lower tracks to be low achievers, unmotivated, uninvolved in school activities, and more prone to break school rules and drop out of school.

One advantage to the Common Core is that if children change schools, the curriculum at their new school will be similar to their old school. In the United States, families move on average once

In 2009-2010, 38% of schools were labeled as _____ under the No Child Left Behind Act.

In 1991 Albert _____, former president of the American Federation of Teachers, pointed out that unlike many other countries, in the United States "there is little connection between what students are supposed to learn, the knowledge on which they are assessed, and what we expect our teachers to know."