The No Child Left Behind Act’s guidelines for secular character education are clear and
easy to implement.
There is no correlation between the ownership of a home computer and reading skills
upon entering kindergarten.
The process of desegregation under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was much
different in the North than in the South.
One issue raised with regard to home schooling is parental competence as teachers.
The OECD is primarily concerned with the economies of poor countries.
All charter schools are privately funded and operated.
Educational attainment alone is the sole factor in determining one’s economic success.
America is a collectivist society that sees the world as made up of relationships based
on contact.
“Dominant culture” in the U.S. refers to the European American culture.
Rural schools are best suited to achieve the teacher requirements under No Child Left
Behind.
The shadow education system includes
A.test preparation centers.
B.tutoring services.
C.cram schools.
D.All of these answers are correct.
Which of the following are social goals of public schools?
A.reducing crime
B.regulating sexuality
C.creating a sense of community
D.improving children’s health
E.All these answers are correct.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school administrators can punish student speech
they find to be lewd and indecent in which case?
A.Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District
B.Board of Island Union Free School District v. Steven A. Pico
C.Bethel v. Fraser
D.West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
Competition for socioeconomic standing takes place outside of school in the ________
model.
A.high-stakes testing
B.ability group
C.common-school
D.sorting-machine
According to Clive Belfield, all of the following are major for-profit education
companies except
A.The National Public School Choice Plan
B.Princeton Review
C.Edison Schools
D.Kaplan
E.None of these answers is correct.
The idea that schools reinforce differences and replicates social class structure is known
as
A.social reproduction.
B.tracking.
C.inequality of opportunity.
D.economic segregation.
Equality of opportunity refers to
A.everyone having the same chance to pursue wealth.
B.the ability of all to achieve equal income and status.
C.the poor being able to run for elected office.
D.how students learn to obey rules.
According to this chapter, which of the following statements about the labor market is
true?
A.High-skilled workers’ wages are rising, while low-skilled workers’ wages are falling.
B.Wages for both high-skilled and low-skilled workers are rising.
C.Wages for both high-skilled and low-skilled workers are falling.
D.Outsourcing of jobs to other countries has no real impact on wages in the United
States.
E.Schools contribute significantly to the ability of low-skilled workers and their
families to rise above their conditions.
Jane Knight classifies distance learning as an example of
A.consumption abroad.
B.commercial presence.
C.presence of natural persons.
D.cross-border supply.
E.None of these answers is correct.
Pearson VUE offers computer-based certification tests in which of the following
categories?
A.Academic/Admissions
B.Legal Services
C.Health & Medicine
D.Employment, Human Resources, & Safety
E.All these answers are correct.
Which of the following types of education is supported by the No Child Left Behind
Act?
A.maintenance bilingual
B.transitional bilingual
C.two-way bilingual
D.English acquisition
Race is
A.a legal construction and a social construction.
B.a biological categorization.
C.a categorization that is based upon scientific proof.
D.a categorization that groups people by cultural background.
E.a categorization based on skin color.
The Common Core State Standards
A.are tests all students in the U.S. take that determine whether a school is effective.
B.are instructions for what students must learn, developed at the state level.
C.are instructions for what students must learn, developed at the federal level.
D.were in decline throughout the Cold War, and have only improved under the No
Child Left Behind Act.
E.are both tests that all students in the U.S. take that determine whether a school is
effective, and instructions for what students must learn, developed at the state level.
The Texas State Board of Education rejected the textbook Environmental Science:
Creating a Sustainable Future because they considered it to be
A.too expensive.
B.anti-free enterprise.
C.hostile to Christians.
D.poorly written.
High-stakes testing
A.has been universally heralded by educators as a success.
B.has been shown to be completely objective.
C.has drastically improved American students’ scores on college entrance exams.
D.increases students’ higher order thinking skills.
E.has led to teachers and administrators cheating on exams.
F.All these answers are correct.
Which of the following is NOT something in education over which states have power?
A.curriculum guidelines
B.teacher licensing
C.civil rights requirements
D.funding of local school districts
Antipoverty programs include all of the following except
A.food stamps.
B.Head Start.
C.housing subsidies.
D.higher attendance at school and work.
School funding comes
A.solely from federal governmental sources.
B.primarily from state and local governmental sources.
C.solely from local governmental sources.
D.primarily from private educational foundations.
The Naturalization Law of 1790 gave full citizenship rights to
A.women.
B.freed slaves.
C.white men.
D.All these answers are correct.
The National Education Association
A.came into existence as an offshoot of the AFL-CIO.
B.is concerned primarily with local politics.
C.played a major role in the development of the modern high school.
D.All these answers are correct.
According to this chapter, which of the following is the reason schools sort students by
ability and talent?
A.Students will pursue jobs that match their educational interest.
B.Students will be better prepared for higher paying jobs in the global market.
C.Students will perform better on standardized tests.
D.Students will be prepared to be more efficient workers.
When this book describes schools as a form of social control, it means
A.they teach students moral values and social responsibility, which help society remain
stable.
B.they extend their influence into students’ diets, sexuality, and social lives in addition
to shaping how they reason and learn.
C.they have, in the past, attempted to educate immigrant children to abandon their
parents’ culture.
D.All these answers are correct.
One purpose of ethnocentric education is to
A.encourage the study of many different cultural perspectives.
B.place Eurocentric views at the center of schooling.
C.overcome dominated groups’ negative feelings about school.
D.teach students how to live with nature and develop an attitude that respects nature.
Categorical aid is
A.a system of targeting funds for specific school programs.
B.a means by which the federal government has sought to minimize its control over
public schools.
C.aid that goes to public and not religious or private schools.
D.both a system of targeting funds for specific school programs and a means by which
the federal government has gained more control over what is taught in schools.
E.both a means by which the federal government has gained more control over what is
taught in schools and aid that goes to public and not religious or private schools.
The concept of ‘separate but equal” was overthrown by what seminal U.S. Supreme
Court case?
A.Plessy v. Ferguson
B.Tokao Ozawa v. United States
C.Oliver v. Michigan State Board of Education
D.Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Educational inflation happens when
A.the price of schooling rises sharply, unrelated to its quality.
B.education attempts to solve the problem of poverty and does not succeed.
C.jobs require more education, but the actual skills required to do them do not change.
D.schools focus on job training to the exclusion of skills needed for college success.
Which of the following was not a consequence of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
A.It put all control of public schools in the hands of state and local government.
B.It sped up the process of desegregation in the South.
C.The control of federal dollars began to be used to shape school policies.
D.The Office of Education started policing whether school systems were segregated.
In the last half of the nineteenth century
A.Mexican Americans achieved educational opportunities equal to those of European
Americans.
B.Mexican Americans were provided with bilingual education in most schools in the
United States.
C.Mexican American families often sent their children to Catholic or other private
schools to escape anti-Mexican attitudes in public schools.
D.Mexican Americans became a majority in California, Texas, and New Mexico.
Which of the following are components of the consumerist ideology?
A.Work is a virtue.
B.The consumer is irrational and can be manipulated into his/her decisions.
C.Advertising is good because it motivates people to work harder to consume products.
D.All these answers are correct.
Which of the following is not one of the ways the federal government exercises indirect
control over education?
A.categorical aid
B.federal regulations
C.general appropriations
D.research
Which of the following are reasons given by parents for home-schooling their children?
A.Specific needs of the child
B.Flexibility
C.Academic excellence
D.Religious convictions
E.All of these answers are correct.
The AFT and the NEA
A.are both critical of No Child Left Behind.
B.are bitter rivals and refuse to collaborate.
C.refuse to actively participate in national politics.
D.actively promote the use of teacher strikes and work stoppages.
Title IX of the 1972 Higher Education Act, as amended,
A.applies only to post-secondary educational institutions.
B.sets quotas for women in school admissions.
C.includes all activities of an educational institution receiving federal aid.
D.All these answers are correct.