Multiple Choice
In an example of applied anthropology's contribution to improving education, this chapter describes a study of Puerto Rican seventh graders in a Midwestern U.S. urban school (Hill-Burnett, 1978) . What did anthropologists discover in this study?
A) The Puerto Rican students' education was being affected by their teachers' misconceptions.
B) The Puerto Rican subjects benefited from the English-as-a-foreign-language program.
C) The parents of Puerto Rican students did not value achievement.
D) Puerto Ricans do not benefit from bilingual education.
E) Puerto Rican students came from a background that placed less value on education than did that of White students.
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