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Which of the following is NOT currently considered among the primary aims of education in America? |
| | A) | personal development |
| | B) | moral achievement |
| | C) | the creation of effective citizens |
| | D) | an opportunity for upward mobility |
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Among minority groups, ___________ are the most likely to drop out of school. |
| | A) | Asian Americans |
| | B) | African Americans |
| | C) | Hispanics |
| | D) | Asian Indians |
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Evidence suggests that the minimum amount of education considered appropriate these days is completion of: |
| | A) | primary school. |
| | B) | junior college. |
| | C) | high school. |
| | D) | four years of college. |
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We may fairly say that there is a positive correlation between education and all of the following except: |
| | A) | reported happiness. |
| | B) | voter participation. |
| | C) | reported life-satisfaction. |
| | D) | personal growth fulfillment. |
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Regarding the struggle to clearly define equal opportunity in education, social factors that bear on this issue would NOT include: |
| | A) | school funding. |
| | B) | one's race. |
| | C) | one's sex. |
| | D) | the socioeconomic level of one's parents. |
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Among U.S. Hispanics, the likelihood of having completed a college bachelor's degree is highest among: |
| | A) | U.S.-born Mexicans. |
| | B) | Mexicans born in Mexico. |
| | C) | Puerto Ricans. |
| | D) | Cubans. |
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Since the middle of the 1960s, the amount of money available for student loans and scholarships has: |
| | A) | not increased. |
| | B) | increased only slightly. |
| | C) | steadily declined. |
| | D) | steadily increased. |
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In an educational atmosphere conducive to learning, you would expect to find all of the following except: |
| | A) | a high proportion of gifted students. |
| | B) | good teacher control of classes. |
| | C) | clear rules for behavior. |
| | D) | teacher support of students. |
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Teachers go through the motions of teaching, but little is taught and little is learned. Truancy is high, facilities are substandard, and students are more concerned with surviving than with learning. Conditions like these illustrate ___________ deprivation. |
| | A) | traumatized |
| | B) | ritualized |
| | C) | educational |
| | D) | student |
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The current diminished payoff in education refers essentially to the educational aim of: |
| | A) | creating effective citizens. |
| | B) | upward mobility. |
| | C) | personal development. |
| | D) | intellectual development. |
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A 1999 study explored the quality of teaching in American public education and reported achievement scores. It found that the proportion of students in 4th and 8th grades who ranked as "proficient" in such areas as reading, math, and science ranged between: |
| | A) | 10 and 20 percent. |
| | B) | 30 and 40 percent. |
| | C) | 50 and 70 percent |
| | D) | 20 and 30 percent. |
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In a comparison with students in 26 other nations, American ___________ graders scored above average in both math and science. |
| | A) | 12th |
| | B) | 8th |
| | C) | 4th |
| | D) | 1st |
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Children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to succeed in school for a variety of reasons. Which of the following is NOT likely to be a factor in their lack of success? |
| | A) | finding the school an alien environment |
| | B) | being disliked by their teacher |
| | C) | strong parenting |
| | D) | the increasing importance of abstraction as they move from grade to grade |
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Opponents of tracking would argue that grouping students by their apparent test-related abilities may have all of the following negative effects except: |
| | A) | stigmatizing low achievers. |
| | B) | depriving low achievers of opportunities for achievement. |
| | C) | maintaining the status quo for students in low-scoring groups. |
| | D) | depriving high achievers of social stimulation. |
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Rosenthal and Jacobson reported on an experiment in an elementary school in which the ___________ scores of students reflected the prior expectations of their teachers. |
| | A) | IQ |
| | B) | reading |
| | C) | achievement |
| | D) | reasoning |
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Funding for public education comes from local, state, and federal sources; however, the primary source of funding disparity among school districts derives from: |
| | A) | local property taxes. |
| | B) | local sales taxes. |
| | C) | state funding allocations. |
| | D) | federal funding allocations. |
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In American colleges, declining minority enrollments are being impacted by all of the following except: |
| | A) | cutbacks in federal student aid. |
| | B) | budget cuts forced on colleges. |
| | C) | restrictions on who can apply for federal student aid. |
| | D) | discriminatory enrollment policies. |
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An extensive study of 20,000 high school students and many hundreds of parents in California and Wisconsin revealed that about _____ percent of the students surveyed indicated that they were apathetic about school and learning. |
| | A) | 60 |
| | B) | 40 |
| | C) | 25 |
| | D) | 10 |
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Restructuring schools through decentralization would entail: |
| | A) | strong national testing standards. |
| | B) | lengthening the school day or the school year. |
| | C) | giving parents and local schools greater control. |
| | D) | expecting all children to attend preschool. |
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Which of the following statements about the home schooling movement is least accurate? |
| | A) | Home-schooled children are involved in extracurricular activities of various kinds. |
| | B) | Home-schooled children manifest a number of social adjustment problems. |
| | C) | Home-schooled children generally receive an adequate education. |
| | D) | Home-schooled children appear to be more independent of peer pressure than public school students. |
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According to a 1999 poll, nearly half of Americans would give our public schools a grade of "C." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The best way to get ahead in America is to be the child of parents with a high socioeconomic status. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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To avoid the crab bucket syndrome, a high school student would have to yield to the pressures of a culture of gangs, drugs, and violence. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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When a child's parents are disadvantaged in terms of income, housing, and health care, the child is likely to suffer some degree of depressed cognitive development. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Contact between blacks and whites in public schools increased steadily through the 1980s and 1990s due to affirmative action programs. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education