Chapter Fourteen: Education
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.2.32
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?
a. Janie will be behind because her new school is ahead of her old school.
b. Janie will be able to more or less pick up where she left off when she gets to her new school.
c. Janie will have to repeat a grade in her new school system.
d. Janie will have to repeat a lot of subject matter that her old school already covered.
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Critique the idea of Common Core.
Topic/Concept: The Common Core Controversy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
TB_Q14.2.33
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
a. in any given child’s lifetime.
b. every two years.
c. every five years.
d. every 10 years.
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Critique the idea of Common Core.
Topic/Concept: The Common Core Controversy
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.34
Data confirms that the higher the educational attainment, the
a. higher the sense of self-esteem.
b. more likely the next generation will not go to college.
c. greater the amount of student debt.
d. higher the income.
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.35
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
In 2013, eighth graders eligible for _____ averaged 27 points lower in math than students who were not.
a. free school lunch
b. the football team
c. extra tutoring
d. a community-service award
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.36
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.
a. higher
b. lower
c. about the same
d. not recorded
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.37
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.
a. African American
b. Latino
c. Asian American
d. African immigrant
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.38
Chapter Fourteen: Education
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.
a. The Joy Luck Club
b. Cultural Differences in Parenting Practices
c. The Hybrid Family
d. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.39
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.
a. status dropout rate
b. dropout rate
c. nongraduation percentage
d. precollege percentage
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.40
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.”
a. smoking is to your physical health
b. dropping out of college used to be
c. exercise is to your physical health
d. joining the military has always been
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.41
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
According to Carey and Rosa, federal state, and local policymakers give _____ resources to students who have
more resources, and _____ to those who have less.
a. less; more
b. more; less
c. unessential; essential
d. school lunch; school breakfast and lunch
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.42
The funding of public schools through local property taxes can be considered discriminatory because
a. poor children and rich children in the same district benefit equally from tax money.
b. senior citizens whose children are grown must still pay taxes that support the local schools.
c. rich school districts can spend more than poor ones on each student.
d. rich “donor” school districts have to subsidize poor “taker” school districts.
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.43
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?
a. Social Darwinism shows that families who have high earnings are more intelligent and more deserving
than families with low incomes.
b. Poor White people are physically and intellectually inferior to poor minorities, therefore, they cannot
raise themselves out of poverty.
c. The end of No Child Left Behind means that schools in poor neighborhoods will not receive the funding
they need to improve.
d. The many benefits of economic privilege include better nutrition, schools, medical care, and technology.
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q14.3.44
Chapter Fourteen: Education
Which type of students are five times more likely to receive special accommodations for a learning disability
when they take the SAT?
a. Students from New England prep schools
b. African American students from the inner city
c. Asian American students from Silicon Valley
d. Latino students from South Texas
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.45
For most individuals, having _____ college education translates into a lifetime of lower earnings and low-
mobility jobs.
a. a community
b. no
c. a state
d. a private
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.46
Students with a middle level of resources are more likely to attend which type of college?
a. Community college
b. Private liberal arts college
c. Public university
d. Private university
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.47
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
a. that has quotas for how many children of different races and socioeconomic classes can be enrolled.
b. that has many races and socioeconomic classes.
c. with diverse races of generally the same socioeconomic class.
d. with others like themselves in socioeconomic status and race.
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.48
Which term refers to sorting students into different groups or classes according to their perceived intellectual ability?
a. Tracking
b. Segregation
c. Integration
d. Testing
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
TB_Q14.3.49
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?
a. The Common Core
b. Teacher expectations
c. Accountability
d. Local funding
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
TB_Q14.3.50
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.
a. social Darwinism
b. the Common Core
c. the tracking system
d. No Child Left Behind
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Essay Questions
TB_Q14.1.51
Chapter Fourteen: Education
Discuss how public schools are funded in the United States. What are some of the problem associated with this
practice?
Learning Objective: LO 14.1: Characterize education in the United States.
Topic/Concept: The Characteristics of U.S. Education
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q14.1.52
Discuss the issue of whether boys are being left behind in schools. Are boys falling behind girls? Is there more to the
story?
Learning Objective: LO 14.1: Characterize education in the United States.
Topic/Concept: The Characteristics of U.S. Education
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q14.2.53
In Conflict and Order, 14th edition
Discuss some of the main differences between No Child Left Behind and the Common Core.
Learning Objective: LO 14.2: Critique the idea of Common Core.
Topic/Concept: The Common Core Controversy
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q14.3.54
Discuss the results of the way public education is funded in the United States. Why does the chapter refer to this
funding as “upside down”?
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It
TB_Q14.3.55
Discuss tracking and the effects of teacher and student expectations on school achievement.
Chapter Fourteen: Education
Learning Objective: LO 14.3: Explain how education in the United States produces inequality.
Topic/Concept: Education and Inequality
Difficulty Level: Difficult
Skill Level: Analyze It