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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) | the opportunity of 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 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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There is a fairly 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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Social factors that bear on the struggle to clearly define equal opportunity in education do NOT include: |
| | A) | school funding |
| | B) | one's race |
| | C) | one's sex |
| | D) | the socio-economic 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) | native Mexicans |
| | 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) | remained the same |
| | B) | increased only slightly |
| | C) | steadily declined |
| | D) | steadily increased |
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To conclude that every school in a state with better funding for education is better than every school in a more poorly funded state reflects the fallacy of: |
| | A) | non sequitur |
| | B) | circular reasoning |
| | C) | dramatic instance |
| | D) | authority |
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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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When one speaks of the current diminished payoff in education, one refers essentially to the educational aim of: |
| | A) | creating effective citizens |
| | B) | upward mobility |
| | C) | personal development |
| | D) | intellectual development |
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Which of the following points was made by the National Center for Education Statistics in an evaluation of changes since the 1980s? |
| | A) | Performance declined in math. |
| | B) | Performance improved in reading. |
| | C) | Course difficulty has declined. |
| | D) | More than half of the faculty at two-year colleges is part-time. |
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Critics charge that Christian schools: |
| | A) | clearly address the issue of mediocrity |
| | B) | decrease racial segregation |
| | C) | use the most recent methods of teaching |
| | D) | provide students with distorted views of human knowledge |
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Children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to succeed in school for a variety of reasons, EXCEPT: |
| | A) | finding their school to be 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 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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Looking at unequalized achievement scores, the _____ students had the lowest average score and the _____ students had the highest. |
| | A) | Mexican; white |
| | B) | Puerto Rican; white |
| | C) | Asian American; African American |
| | D) | white; American Indian |
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An extensive study of 20,000 high school students in California and Wisconsin revealed that about _____ percent of the students surveyed indicated 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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