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Which of the following is NOT associated with the view of schools as tools to reconstruct society?
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| | A) | social action curriculum
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| | B) | service credit
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| | C) | Paulo Freire's The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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| | D) | acculturation
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John Goodlad surveyed parents, teachers, and students about the goals of schools. He found that
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| | A) | parents, teachers, and students hold sharply differing views on school goals.
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| | B) | most parents feel social and civic goals should have top priority, whereas teachers overwhelmingly favor academic goals.
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| | C) | parents, teachers, and students rank four main goals (academic, social/civic, vocational, and personal) "very important."
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| | D) | parents and teachers rate all but personal goals "very important."
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The second wave of school reform, as advanced by Theodore Sizer and others
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| | A) | called for stronger administrators to guide school reform.
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| | B) | had "higher standards" as its rallying cry.
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| | C) | advocated "full service schools."
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| | D) | called for reforming basic school decision-making practices.
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A Nation at Risk charged that the United States
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| | A) | had been committing "unilateral educational disarmament."
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| | B) | had failed to develop a social action curriculum to fit the times.
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| | C) | needed to have a more child-centered educational policy.
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| | D) | should direct more educational resources to the underprivileged.
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"Children's policy" is a term most closely associated with |
| | A) | charter schools. |
| | B) | the first wave of school reform. |
| | C) | the second wave of school reform. |
| | D) | the third wave of school reform. |
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Most educational reformers of the 1980s set as one of their main priorities
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| | A) | educational equity concerning the needs of women.
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| | B) | instituting a core curriculum.
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| | C) | more emphasis on vocational education.
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| | D) | "whole person" development.
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Which of the following is most closely associated with the goal of desegregating schools?
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| | A) | open enrollment
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| | B) | vouchers
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| | C) | magnet schools
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| | D) | for-profit schools
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In the 1950s, Milton Friedman began advocating freedom of choice in education. He believed
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| | A) | students should have ultimate flexibility in determining class schedules
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| | B) | teachers should choose their curricula from within broad district guidelines
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| | C) | parents should be able to choose where to send their children to school
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| | D) | students should be able to choose between an academic and vocational track
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Voucher plans are most similar to
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| | A) | charter schools.
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| | B) | neighborhood schools.
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| | C) | open enrollment.
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| | D) | privatization.
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What do we call the three criteria determining the legality of government funds used in religious schools?
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| | A) | the Lemon test
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| | B) | the Friedman test
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| | C) | the voucher standard
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| | D) | the anti-establishment rule
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Why do most vouchers go to religious schools?
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| | A) | This is NOT the case. Most independent (non-religious) schools are barred from receiving vouchers.
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| | B) | The low cost of independent schools make financial vouchers unnecessary.
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| | C) | Most private schools are religious schools.
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| | D) | The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of vouchers to religious schools but has yet to rule on the legality of vouchers to independent schools.
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In Jonathan Kozol's writings and in his stand against vouchers, he rails against
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| | A) | lax educational standards that threaten our nation's economic future.
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| | B) | inequalities in our educational system.
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| | C) | social action curriculum.
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| | D) | slavish devotion to "democracy" in education.
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Charter schools got their start when
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| | A) | Al Shanker, then AFT president, suggested empowering teachers in charter schools.
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| | B) | Jonathan Kozol, researching for his book, uncovered the charter model in New Zealand.
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| | C) | John Chubb, of Brookings, called the democratic governance of schools broken, and advocated more autonomous entities such as charter schools.
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| | D) | desegregationists looked for an alternative to magnet schools.
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The largest for-profit venture in public schools is
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| | A) | Edison Schools.
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| | B) | Tesseract (formerly Educational Alternative Incorporated).
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| | C) | Disney's "Celebration."
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| | D) | Microsoft's "Schools of Tomorrow."
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Researcher Van Galen divides home schoolers into two groups:
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| | A) | disaffected teachers and recent immigrants.
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| | B) | ideologues and pedagogues.
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| | C) | "Romantic critics" and scofflaws.
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| | D) | overachievers and fundamentalists.
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