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1
According to "Grading Obama's Education Policy," one progressive element of President Obama's Race to the Top educational reform policy is that
A)schools will be given credit for raising student achievement even if performance goals are not met.
B)school accountability procedures will now mirror those of major corporations.
C)privatization of schools will become a primary focus.
D)teachers will no longer be able to unionize.
2
As claimed in "Grading Obama's Education Policy," one of the hallmarks of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that continues with Race to the Top is the notion that
A)cooperation is paramount.
B)nationalist rhetoric has no place in education.
C)competition outweighs cooperation.
D)public schools are the best and most successful educational venue.
3
As noted in "Grading Obama's Education Policy," states and school districts are often willing to engage in problematic reforms in order to secure federal stimulus dollars.
A)True
B)False
4
As presented in "The Why Behind RTI," the underlying premise of Response to Intervention (RTI) is that schools should
A)focus on standardized testing for all students in an attempt to improve scores across the board.
B)funnel students into a special-education curriculum as soon as learning difficulties are detected.
C)wait until students fall far enough behind to qualify for special education before implementing any interventions.
D)provide targeted and systematic interventions to all students as soon as they demonstrate the need.
5
As argued in "The Why Behind RTI," following pacing guides for each course ensures that
A)teachers will teach all the required material before the state assessments.
B)students will learn all the required material before the state assessments.
C)each student will have an individualized learning experience.
D)students with special needs will not be left behind.
6
As noted in "The Why Behind RTI," it is estimated that up to 50 percent of the U.S. prison population consists of individuals who were once identified as students with special needs.
A)True
B)False
7
As expressed in "Rethinking School," by practically any measure, the quality of public K-12 education in the United States is:
A)merely adequate.
B)dismal.
C)flawed, but improving.
D)among the best in the world.
8
As reported in "Rethinking School," in 1990, the United States was first in the world in the percentage of 25–34 year olds with college degrees, and today it is:
A)still first, with an even higher percentage.
B)dead last in the developed world.
C)tenth and dropping.
D)second only to Japan.
9
According to "Rethinking School," even though American students have been getting into college in ever-increasing numbers over the past 20 years, the college graduation rate has not risen.
A)True
B)False
10
As set forth in "Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?", for the improvement of American education, the challenge is particularly great in math, science, and:
A)verbal skills.
B)writing skills.
C)social studies.
D)engineering.
11
As reported in "Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?", topping the world's list with a 75-percent math proficiency rate is:
A)France.
B)Macao.
C)Shanghai.
D)Canada.
12
According to "Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?", McKinsey's Global Institute estimates that over the next few years, there will be a gap of nearly 2 million workers with the necessary analytical and technical skills.
A)True
B)False
13
As expressed in "The International Experience," because people are tempted to see whatever they think they should see, learning from international experience can be a bit like:
A)reading tea leaves.
B)following a hypnotic suggestion.
C)consulting one's horoscope.
D)watching an illusionist.
14
As cited in "The International Experience," Hoover Institution scholar Eric Hanushek determined that the United States could boost its annual GDP growth rate by more than one percentage point annually by raising student math performance to levels currently attained in countries such as Canada and:
A)France.
B)Saudi Arabia.
C)Korea.
D)Colombia.
15
According to "The International Experience," Jason Glass, director of the Department of Education for Iowa, says that the mentorship that Iowa teachers receive in their first year of teaching is among the finest in the country.
A)True
B)False
16
According to "A Diploma Worth Having," the key weakness of high school today is that it
A)is boring.
B)does not prepare students for success on standardized tests.
C)has no specific requirements for graduation.
D)demonstrates little concern for content.
17
As claimed in "A Diploma Worth Having," the fundamental question that should be asked about a high-school curriculum is how well it
A)prepares students for college.
B)instills a love of learning.
C)covers the traditional academic subjects.
D)prepares all students for their adult lives.
18
As noted in "A Diploma Worth Having," Herbert Spencer noted in 1861 that child rearing should be taught as a core subject in school.
A)True
B)False
19
As quoted in "What Educators Are Learning from Money Managers," James Heckman, a University of Chicago economist and 2009 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, has said that most of the gap in our children's test scores is:
A)a function of the dysfunction of the American family.
B)forged in third-grade math classes.
C)statistical hogwash.
D)there before they enter kindergarten.
20
As identified in "What Educators Are Learning from Money Managers," Achievement First, a nonprofit that operates 17 schools in two states, is headquartered in:
A)Brooklyn, New York.
B)Central Falls, Rhode Island.
C)Newton, Massachusetts.
D)New Haven, Connecticut.
21
As reported in "What Educators Are Learning from Money Managers," over the past four decades, American spending per pupil (adjusted for inflation) has barely budged.
A)True
B)False
22
According to "Who Are America's Poor Children?", research shows that, in order to make ends meet, most U.S. families need
A)an income of at least the federal poverty level.
B)the help of government assistance programs.
C)an income of at least twice the federal poverty level.
D)two wage earners.
23
As portrayed in "Who Are America's Poor Children?", child poverty is highest among
A)whites.
B)blacks.
C)Asians.
D)Hispanics.
24
As noted in "Who Are America's Poor Children?", children with native-born parents are less likely to be poor than children with parents who immigrated to the United States.
A)True
B)False
25
According to "Teacher's Perspectives on Teaching Students Who Are Placed At-Risk," a primary problem with even the most strength-based models of teaching high-risk students is that they
A)do not focus enough on the concept of risk.
B)fail to consider a variety of explanations for a student's problematic behavior.
C)tend to hold students and parents responsible for students' academic problems.
D)continue to centralize the notion of risk.
26
As explained in "Teacher's Perspectives on Teaching Students Who Are Placed At-Risk," the use of the term "at-risk" is controversial because surrounding discourse often includes the notion of
A)blame.
B)discrimination.
C)inequality.
D)student behavior.
27
As noted in "Teacher's Perspectives on Teaching Students Who Are Placed At-Risk," teachers' personal beliefs are so ingrained that they can rarely, if ever, change their classroom practices.
A)True
B)False
28
As reported in "Examining the Culture of Poverty: Promising Practices," when professors of a major university in an impoverished area examined the teaching graduates who planned to teach in that area, they found that the majority of graduates
A)had grown up in poverty themselves.
B)were fully prepared to teach the types of children they would encounter.
C)did not reflect the demographics of the area or students they would teach.
D)belonged to minority groups.
29
As defined in "Examining the Culture of Poverty: Promising Practices," generational poverty can be seen as poverty that involves
A)a temporary setback, such as an illness or job loss.
B)a separate culture, with hidden rules and belief systems.
C)issues that affect one particular generation in a family.
D)access to a rich variety of social and cultural resources passed down through generations.
30
As claimed in "Examining the Culture of Poverty: Promising Practices," the only industrialized nation without universal preschool and child-care programs is the United States.
A)True
B)False
31
As defined in "Homelessness Comes to School," the three types of homeless minors that fall into the category of "unaccompanied youth" are all of the following, except:
A)dropout homeless.
B)system homeless.
C)runaway homeless.
D)throwaway homeless.
32
As suggested in "Homelessness Comes to School," perhaps nowhere is the connection between homelessness and education bleaker than in:
A)kindergarten registration.
B)high school graduation.
C)middle school attendance.
D)elementary-level reading.
33
According to "Homelessness Comes to School," there are more homeless persons in the United States today than at any time since the Great Depression.
A)True
B)False
34
As claimed in "Supporting the Literacy Development of Children Living in Homeless Shelters," one of the biggest concerns with regard to educators when it comes to homeless children in the classroom is the danger of
A)stereotyping.
B)favoritism.
C)high expectations.
D)disinterest.
35
As presented in "Supporting the Literacy Development of Children Living in Homeless Shelters," the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 is meant to ensure that children of homeless families
A)are placed in suitable foster homes.
B)are home-schooled.
C)have access to public schooling.
D)do not disrupt the education process for other children.
36
As noted in "Supporting the Literacy Development of Children Living in Homeless Shelters," homeless shelters are usually the first resource families turn to when they find themselves without their own home.
A)True
B)False
37
As presented in "Integrating Children's Books and Literacy into the Physical Education Curriculum," the academic success of youth in America is strongly linked with their
A)test scores.
B)math and science knowledge.
C)literacy.
D)health.
38
As noted in "Integrating Children's Books and Literacy into the Physical Education Curriculum," one of the most effective means of supporting student learning is through
A)children's literature.
B)standardized testing.
C)physical-education classes.
D)basic-skills drills.
39
As claimed in "Integrating Children's Books and Literacy into the Physical Education Curriculum," physical-education (PE) teachers tend to spend more time with their students than do classroom teachers.
A)True
B)False
40
As set forth in "Using Family Message Journals to Improve Student Writing and Strengthen the School-Home Partnership," the interest in using FMJs to improve student writing emerged from four areas of concern, including all of the following, except:
A)How can we learn to tolerate the limitations of the unteachable?
B)How can we foster home-school partnerships?
C)Where do we fit writing instruction and practice into the curriculum?
D)How do we motivate students to write?
41
As remarked in "Using Family Message Journals to Improve Student Writing and Strengthen the School-Home Partnership," when students reach school age, they are already:
A)somebody.
B)questioning their identity.
C)defensive.
D)someone else's image.
42
As calculated in "Using Family Message Journals to Improve Student Writing and Strengthen the School-Home Partnership," from the time a child is born until he or she is 18 years old, that child spends only 11 percent of the time in formal education.
A)True
B)False
43
According to "Strategies for Teaching Algebra to Students with Learning Disabilities," a review of algebra interventions published by Maccini, McNaughton, and Ruhl examined and supported all of the following strategies except
A)general problem-solving strategies.
B)explicit instruction methods.
C)self-monitoring strategies.
D)teaching prerequisite skills.
44
As related in "Strategies for Teaching Algebra to Students with Learning Disabilities," of the five intervention phases examined in research by Mayfield and Glenn, the most consistently effective intervention was found to be
A)tiered feedback.
B)cumulative practice.
C)transfer training.
D)feedback plus solution sequence instruction.
45
As noted in "Strategies for Teaching Algebra to Students with Learning Disabilities," most students with learning disabilities (LD) excel at generalizing learned materials to novel situations.
A)True
B)False
46
The research cited in "Do Girls Learn Math Fear From Teachers?" found that
A)almost all elementary school teachers had strong math skills.
B)current elementary school girls have less math fear than boys.
C)female elementary school teachers concerned about their own math skills could be passing that anxiety along to girls they teach.
D)teacher math anxiety could not be measured.
47
As noted in "Too Much Too Soon? Common Core Math Standards in the Early Years," the final document submitted for the Common Core Math Standards, written with the aim of having "fewer, clearer, higher standards," is approximately:
A)25 pages.
B)50 pages.
C)275 pages.
D)500 pages.
48
As disclosed in "Too Much Too Soon? Common Core Math Standards in the Early Years," one of NCTM's issues with the details of the Common Core Math Standards is a concern about the term:
A)informed standards.
B)effective curriculum.
C)standard algorithm.
D)intrinsic motivation.
49
According to "Too Much Too Soon? Common Core Math Standards in the Early Years," the NCTM has not to date endorsed the final Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
A)True
B)False
50
As established in "Hand to Hand: Teaching Tolerance and Social Justice One Child at a Time," the author is an art educator who also teaches:
A)preschool music directors.
B)special needs facilitators.
C)library science majors.
D)general education teacher candidates.
51
As expressed in "Hand to Hand: Teaching Tolerance and Social Justice One Child at a Time," one of the reasons why art should be central to a teaching-tolerance curriculum is that both difference and similarity stem from:
A)imagination.
B)observation.
C)sensory cognition.
D)representations.
52
According to "Hand to Hand: Teaching Tolerance and Social Justice One Child at a Time," most of today's schools are less diverse than they were a generation ago.
A)True
B)False
53
As reported in "Start Where Your Students Are," in the story about teacher Cynthia and student Jason, the teachers had the student bring her a chocolate bar as a
A)demonstration of her authority.
B)pathway to redemption.
C)symbol of repentance.
D)kind of bribe.
54
As pointed out in "Start Where Your Students Are," most conflicts in the classroom are the result of
A)absence of any currency of value.
B)deflated currency value placed on learning.
C)a breakdown in the currency exchange.
D)confusion between currency and motivation.
55
According to "Start Where Your Students Are," many students do not have the currencies needed to access the curriculum.
A)True
B)False
56
As presented in "Leave Nothing to Chance," a problematic myth that exists within the U.S. educational system is that students of color and low-income students
A)can succeed if they choose to.
B)do not require any special consideration or educational programming.
C)cannot be expected to achieve at high levels.
D)are usually the highest achievers in any school.
57
As reported in "Leave Nothing to Chance," the "essential bargain" that the United States offers its citizens is
A)equal achievement for all students.
B)a fair start for all children.
C)educational success for all students.
D)the separation of achieving students and challenging ones.
58
As noted in "Leave Nothing to Chance," the Education Trust's Dispelling the Myth award honors schools that score highest on standardized tests.
A)True
B)False
59
As noted in "Criminalizing Kids: The Overlooked Reason for Failing Schools," before the early 1970s, the U.S incarceration rate was:
A)fairly unremarkable.
B)alarmingly high.
C)subject to inaccurate statistical analysis.
D)driven mostly by violent crime.
60
As observed in "Criminalizing Kids: The Overlooked Reason for Failing Schools," by the end of the 1960s, the districts most eager to bring a police presence into city schools were those that had also experienced an upsurge in their students' involvement with:
A)drugs.
B)gangs.
C)petty crime.
D)civil-rights activism.
61
As stated in "Criminalizing Kids: The Overlooked Reason for Failing Schools," by 2010, states across the country were spending as much as a billion dollars per year on their myriad new anti-crime measures.
A)True
B)False
62
As suggested in "She's Strict for a Good Reason," when studying teachers in low-performing urban schools, the authors found that strictness in the classroom equated to
A)meanness.
B)coddling.
C)punishment.
D)respect.
63
As claimed in "She's Strict for a Good Reason," the most productive practice of successful teachers in low-performing urban schools was
A)drills and testing.
B)movement in the classroom.
C)innovative instructional methods.
D)lax or nonexistent classroom rules.
64
As presented in "She's Strict for a Good Reason," most of the successful teachers studied planned multiple cultural activities to address the ethnic diversity of their student populations.
A)True
B)False
65
As described in "Life Skills Yield Stronger Academic Performance," in Fall 2010, Lindsey's lifeskills class was reborn with 40 students and 5 instructional aides—the latter drawn from a diverse group of students:
A)with at least two semesters on the honor roll.
B)on Lindsey's speech and debate team.
C)from the previous year's lifeskills class.
D)with physical disabilities.
66
As specified in "Life Skills Yield Stronger Academic Performance," Lindsey's lifeskills course was required for all:
A)repeat freshmen.
B)African-American male freshmen.
C)sophomores.
D)students entering sophomore year with a GPA below 2.0.
67
As pointed out in "Life Skills Yield Stronger Academic Performance," even though the lifeskills class is offered as an elective, it is still subject to the occasional tangle of state-mandated standards.
A)True
B)False
68
As reported in "What Does Research Say about Effective Practices for English Learners?", using sheltered instruction strategies
A)does not make academic content comprehensible.
B)inherently leads to development of expressive language.
C)provides comprehensible input for any content area.
D)by itself will produce comprehensible output.
69
In comparing Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP), the authors of "What Does Research Say about Effective Practices for English Learners?" note that CALP is
A)more abstract.
B)less demanding cognitively.
C)learned more easily.
D)more contextualized.
70
According to "What Does Research Say about Effective Practices for English Learners?", academic language skills are not as important as knowledge of academic disciplines.
A)True
B)False
71
As defined in "Using Guided Notes to Enhance Instruction for All Students," the term "guided notes" refers to
A)student note-taking during a teacher lecture.
B)student note-taking from the textbook.
C)teacher-prepared handouts with blanks for the students to fill in during a lecture.
D)teacher-prepared, preprinted notes that are sent home with students to study after a lecture.
72
As presented in "Using Guided Notes to Enhance Instruction for All Students," the first step to creating guided notes is to
A)copy important concepts from the textbook.
B)prepare an outline of a lecture focusing on the most important concepts of the lesson.
C)write questions to help the students guess the most important concepts of the lesson.
D)develop a pre-lesson quiz for students to take prior to the lecture.
73
As mentioned in "Using Guided Notes to Enhance Instruction for All Students," one of the drawbacks to guided notes is that teachers cannot insert their own stories and personal examples into the lecture.
A)True
B)False
74
According to "Strategies for Every Teacher's Toolbox," when compared to average adolescent students, adolescent students with learning disabilities
A)have very different characteristics and needs.
B)are better students, because they try harder.
C)have the same needs for peer acceptance and interaction.
D)tend to reject the typical social situations and interactions that other adolescents need.
75
As claimed in "Strategies for Every Teacher's Toolbox," learning disabilities often become apparent at the secondary school level because the
A)focus moves to content-area material.
B)pace of the lessons slows down.
C)instructional timeframe lengthens.
D)teachers are trained to recognize these disabilities.
76
As noted in "Strategies for Every Teacher's Toolbox," many secondary students with learning disabilities do not receive adequate preparation for the instructional changes that occur between elementary and secondary school.
A)True
B)False
77
As stated in "Teaching English Language Learners," learning to read in one's first language facilitates the development of:
A)self-respect.
B)literacy skills in English.
C)familial bonding.
D)cognitive reasoning.
78
According to "Teaching English Language Learners," although 80 percent of the English-learner student population speaks Spanish, the rest of the group represents speakers of:
A)some 38 other languages.
B)approximately 75 other languages.
C)nearly 150 other languages.
D)more than 460 other languages.
79
As clarified in "Teaching English Language Learners," newcomer English learners are no longer exempt from taking standardized tests under the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.
A)True
B)False
80
As stated in "'For Openers: How Technology is Changing School'," the author predicts all of the following except
A)free learning guidance from e-mentors will emerge.
B)learners will select global learning partners.
C)drop-out rates will increase.
D)international academic degrees will be offered.
81
As reported in "'For Openers: How Technology is Changing School'," students at Indiana University High School
A)have the flexibility of online courses.
B)must reside in the United States.
C)do not get course credit.
D)must be minors.
82
According to "'For Openers: How Technology is Changing School'," the majority of the top 25 best sellers on the Kindle are actually free.
A)True
B)False
83
As characterized in "From the Three Rs to the Four Cs," every moment of the first four or five years in the life of "Jessica Everyperson" provided her with new integrated-sensory-learning experiences that helped to consolidate, as the ancient Greek philosophers called it, her:
A)unity of consciousness.
B)sense of super-self.
C)beingness of being.
D)essence of inner life.
84
As pointed out in "From the Three Rs to the Four Cs," dropout rates of middle-school and high-school students are tragically rising, particularly among:
A)lower-middle-class white males.
B)those with special needs.
C)African Americans and Latinos.
D)rural Southerners.
85
As asserted in "From the Three Rs to the Four Cs," young people today feel that it is no longer necessary to become text literate—that it is no longer relevant to or for their lives.
A)True
B)False
86
As profiled in "Adventures with Cell Phones," a Spanish instructor gives oral quizzes using her:
A)LinkedIn video page.
B)Google Voice account.
C)Facebook page.
D)YouTube recordings.
87
As defined in "Adventures with Cell Phones," the ability to post media (photos, video, audio, or text) from a mobile phone to a specific point on a map is known as mobile:
A)cybermapping.
B)geotagging.
C)positioning.
D)place-plotting.
88
According to "Adventures with Cell Phones," 52 percent of those aged 10–17 who use cell phones say they send text messages while watching a movie in the theater.
A)True
B)False
89
According to "Digital Readers: The Next Chapter in E-Book Reading and Response," in order to successfully integrate digital technology into existing reading programs, it is necessary to first
A)convince students that technology is "cool."
B)redefine the notion of what constitutes "text."
C)convince students that reading is beneficial.
D)introduce students to the concept of technology.
90
As presented in "Digital Readers: The Next Chapter in E-Book Reading and Response," the transactional theory of reader response supports the idea that readers
A)"make sense" of reading experiences through personal experiences.
B)read to gather information for tests and other academic endeavors.
C)do not personally interact with written text.
D)are unable to "make meaning" through the use of written words.
91
As noted in "Digital Readers: The Next Chapter in E-Book Reading and Response," most digital readers present texts in traditional format and look like a traditional book.
A)True
B)False
92
As discussed in "Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning," Sarah Sullivan of Pershing Middle School in San Diego contends that money the school district is investing in technology
A)requires no special training for teachers.
B)appears to be paying desired dividends.
C)has been used across all subjects.
D)has had no effect on speed of learning.
93
As pointed out in "Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning," the lead in offering tailored instruction has been taken by
A)public schools.
B)textbook publishers.
C)charter schools.
D)supplemental service providers.
94
According to "Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning," Joel Rose of School of One contends that students spend most of their day working on the skills they most need.
A)True
B)False
95
As cited in "Are We Adequately Preparing Teachers to Partner with Families?", Bruder and Dunst (2005) surveyed programs to determine where early-childhood teacher-preparation emphasis was placed in regards to all the following factors, except:
A)legal parameters.
B)cross-disciplinary models.
C)service coordination.
D)natural environments.
96
As evaluated in "Are We Adequately Preparing Teachers to Partner with Families?", teachers' perceptions of families impact:
A)their interactions with families.
B)their accountability to the students.
C)the classroom dynamic.
D)the development of the class curriculum.
97
As determined in "Are We Adequately Preparing Teachers to Partner with Families?", research concerning teacher preparation in the field of early childhood is limited, particularly in the area of family-centered practices.
A)True
B)False
98
As put forth in "Work Together: But Only if You Want To," the author cannot find any dictionary in which "someone who can do whatever he or she pleases" is the definition for:
A)professional.
B)teacher.
C)student.
D)adult.
99
As stated in "Work Together: But Only if You Want To," almost all of the professional organizations in education, including the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, have specifically endorsed the premise that educators should:
A)be tested every six months.
B)work collaboratively.
C)be granted autonomy in the classroom.
D)have nationally standardized credentials.
100
As argued in "Work Together: But Only if You Want To," time spent in collaboration with colleagues is considered essential to success in most professions.
A)True
B)False
101
According to "Methods for Addressing Conflict in Cotaught Classrooms," co-teaching represents an approach for supporting students with disabilities in a
A)special-education classroom.
B)general-education classroom.
C)home-school setting.
D)highly social setting.
102
As noted in "Methods for Addressing Conflict in Cotaught Classrooms," effective co-teaching depends on each teacher's
A)knowledge of the content area.
B)years of teaching experience.
C)interpersonal skills.
D)personality.
103
As stated in "Methods for Addressing Conflict in Cotaught Classrooms," most preparation programs for special-education teachers address conflict-resolution in depth.
A)True
B)False
104
As defined in "What's Your Style?," generally speaking, to favor structure, order, and maximum control of a particular environment is to be:
A)laissez-faire.
B)linear.
C)critical.
D)holistic.
105
As enumerated in "What's Your Style?," linear characteristics are reflected by all of the following, except:
A)scope and sequence charts.
B)bell schedules.
C)shared power.
D)Bloom's Taxonomy.
106
As specified in "What's Your Style?," diversity is the ultimate goal in the linear model.
A)True
B)False
107
According to "Collaborating with Parents to Implement Behavioral Interventions for Children with Challenging Behaviors," involving parents in planning and implementing behavioral interventions for children with challenging behaviors is:
A)futile, because most parents do not have relevant information about their child's difficulties.
B)problematic, because the child's home environment is what likely caused the child's behavior challenges in the first place.
C)essential, because parents have firsthand knowledge about the extent and history of the child's difficulties.
D)impossible, because most parents are not interested in helping to solve their child's problems.
108
As explained in "Collaborating with Parents to Implement Behavioral Interventions for Children with Challenging Behaviors," when working with parents, one of the most important things for a practitioner to do is:
A)identify the strengths and capabilities of the parents.
B)assert his or her authority as the person in charge of the plan.
C)identify the problems in the home environment and the weaknesses within the family.
D)provide counseling and other interventions for problematic parents.
109
As noted in "Collaborating with Parents to Implement Behavioral Interventions for Children with Challenging Behaviors," even well-meaning parents may be inadvertently reinforcing a child's challenging behaviors by the way that they respond to those behaviors.
A)True
B)False
110
As identified in "Why Age Matters," Aiken, the profiled town of 29,000, is situated in:
A)South Carolina, near the Georgia border.
B)Virginia, near the North Carolina border.
C)California, near the Mexican border.
D)Tennessee, near the Kentucky border.
111
As predicted in "Why Age Matters," Aiken, which is ahead of the curve in adapting to older populations (nearly 22 percent of its population is over 65), represents what most U.S. cities and towns will look like demographically in:
A)no more than 20 years.
B)less than 40 years.
C)50 years.
D)about 60 years.
112
According to "Why Age Matters," the Foster Grandparents program gets all its funding from the National Senior Service Corporation.
A)True
B)False
113
As explained in "Inequities in Educational and Psychological Outcomes between LGBTQ and Straight Students in Middle and High School," an umbrella term often used to describe youth with gender identities, expressions, or behaviors who are different from the biological sex at birth is:
A)bisexual.
B)questioning.
C)transgender.
D)homogenetic.
114
According to "Inequities in Educational and Psychological Outcomes between LGBTQ and Straight Students in Middle and High School," a 2003 survey of Massachusetts high school students revealed that individuals who identified as LGB were nearly five times as likely as students who identified as heterosexual to report not attending school because of feeling:
A)unsafe.
B)depressed.
C)different.
D)unteachable.
115
As reported in "Inequities in Educational and Psychological Outcomes between LGBTQ and Straight Students in Middle and High School," some preliminary studies suggest that bisexual and questioning youth (who most likely outnumber youth who identify as strictly gay or lesbian) may be at especially great risk for negative outcomes.
A)True
B)False
116
As set forth in "LGBT Students Want Educators to Speak Up for Them," we know that the values, actions, and atmosphere of a school are lived first by students, in their:
A)conversations.
B)homes.
C)private selves.
D)classrooms.
117
As used in "LGBT Students Want Educators to Speak Up for Them," the word meaning "biologically neither male nor female" is:
A)bisexual.
B)transgender.
C)queer.
D)intersex.
118
According to "LGBT Students Want Educators to Speak Up for Them," in the 2004 GLSEN National School Climate Survey, 83 percent of LGBT students reported that school personnel "never" or "only sometimes" intervened when homophobic remarks were made in their presence.
A)True
B)False
119
As contended in "Preventing Bullying and Harassment of Sexual Minority Students in Schools," the greatest enemy of sexual minorities is:
A)invisibility.
B)absent parenting.
C)self-loathing.
D)homophobia.
120
As noted in "Preventing Bullying and Harassment of Sexual Minority Students in Schools," one of the most prominently used methods for the sexual-minority community to fight oppression both in schools and in their personal lives is said to be:
A)legal redress.
B)retribution with weapons.
C)organized protest.
D)affiliation with adult gay-rights groups.
121
According to "Preventing Bullying and Harassment of Sexual Minority Students in Schools," boys who are bullied by being called "gay" for either being gay or being perceived to be gay are at a greater risk of psychological distress as well as more physical and verbal abuse than students bullied for other reasons.
A)True
B)False
122
As established in "What Educators Need to Know about Bullying Behaviors," the author defines peer victimization as physical, verbal, or psychological abuse that occurs in and around school, especially
A)where adult supervision is minimal.
B)in secret one-on-one settings.
C)in the classroom.
D)on the playground.
123
As clarified in "What Educators Need to Know about Bullying Behaviors," the author's definition of peer victimization does not include
A)hitting.
B)indirect abuse, involving a third party.
C)cyber-bullying.
D)the more lethal types of peer hostility, as in school shootings.
124
As disclosed in "What Educators Need to Know about Bullying Behaviors," there were more studies on school bullying in the 1990s than in any other decade.
A)True
B)False
125
As profiled in "What Students Say about Bullying," the research project begun by the authors in response to what they have observed over 15 years working in bullying prevention is called:
A)Their Own Words.
B)Youth Voice.
C)Listen Up.
D)What Students Say.
126
As reported in "What Students Say about Bullying," when the surveyed students chose from a list of actions they had used to stop or avoid bullying behavior, the results showed that 73 percent (the highest percentage) had used the strategy of:
A)doing nothing.
B)pretending it did not bother them.
C)telling an adult at school.
D)telling an adult at home.
127
According to "What Students Say about Bullying," more than half of the surveyed students responded that they had made plans to get back at the bullies.
A)True
B)False
128
As cited in "Hostile Hallways," a 2009 report by the Center for Research on Women reveals that only 16 percent of students who had been harassed by a fellow student:
A)plotted revenge.
B)told their closest friends.
C)reported it.
D)said it was no big deal.
129
As noted in "Hostile Hallways," a survey of 522 middle school and high school students published by Gruber in 2008 claims that the category of students especially at risk for sexual harassment are:
A)LGBQ.
B)shy boys.
C)lonely middle-school girls.
D)popular high-school girls.
130
As stated in "Hostile Hallways," research suggests that, although it is not as common as run-of-the-mill bullying, sexual harassment in schools may have worse long-term effects.
A)True
B)False
131
As set forth in "Modifying Anti-Bullying Programs to Include Students with Disabilities," the key to success for any anti-bullying program is:
A)a whole-school approach.
B)coordination with local law enforcement.
C)putting parents in charge.
D)giving the greatest responsibility to the students.
132
As cited in "Modifying Anti-Bullying Programs to Include Students with Disabilities," in 2009, Saylor and Leach examined bullying among students with disabilities and matched general-education students who were part of the:
A)Peer EXPRESS Inclusion Program.
B)student council.
C)arts and music programs.
D)athletic programs.
133
As demonstrated in "Modifying Anti-Bullying Programs to Include Students with Disabilities," children with learning disabilities have been found to be more likely to be identified by peers as victims of bullying than those without learning disabilities.
A)True
B)False
134
As stated in "Bullying and School Liability—Implications for School Personnel," the description of bullies as "impulsive, easily frustrated, dominant in personality, and have difficulty conforming to rules" is the wording of:
A)the U.S. Department of Education.
B)a 14-year-old victim from Pensacola, Florida.
C)an elementary school principal in Lubbock, Texas.
D)the American Psychological Association.
135
According to "Bullying and School Liability—Implications for School Personnel," bullies identified by age 8 are six times more likely to:
A)be convicted of a crime by age 24.
B)drop out of high school.
C)be victims of domestic violence.
D)become substance abusers.
136
As specified in "Bullying and School Liability—Implications for School Personnel," educators have been assigned two legal duties by the courts while children are in the functional custody of the school: to instruct and to supervise, but not to provide for the safety of students.
A)True
B)False





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