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1
James Bryant Conant's views on educational policy could best be characterized as
A)democratic.
B)authoritarian.
C)universal.
D)meritocratic.
2
In what 1954 Supreme Court case did the Court find that "in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place"?
A)Plessy v. Ferguson
B)Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
C)Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
D)Worcester v. Georgia
3
The new liberal ideology
A)extolled the virtues of self-employment and individualism.
B)held that a democratic society could function only if true power was placed with the common citizen.
C)believed that power was best placed with highly-trained experts.
D)extolled the virtues of decentralized decision-making.
4
James Bryant Conant believed that educational testing
A)would provide an accurate measure of the academic aptitude of students as young as 12.
B)was acceptable only for the measurement of the academic aptitude of college applicants.
C)would provide an accurate measure of the academic aptitude of students after the age of 12.
D)was only part of what was necessary in understanding a student's academic promise.
5
Which of the following is not associated with the educational policies and beliefs of James Bryant Conant?
A)social mobility
B)universal college education
C)selective education
D)objective measurement of academic aptitudes
6
What did James Bryant Conant believe needed to happen in order to achieve a more socially fluid and mobile society?
A)rejection of the emphasis on "experts" in everyday life
B)understanding that some types of labor are more difficult and should be accorded higher social distinction
C)approval of systems of hierarchical educational discipline
D)societal acceptance that no educational discipline has social standing above another
7
In his book Education and Liberty, James Bryant Conant noted that the American comprehensive high school
A)played a role in avoiding the social rifts apparent in other societies.
B)fostered democratic unity.
C)minimized class distinctions by mixing students of vastly different backgrounds and abilities into one school.
D)All the answers are correct.
8
Belief that United States school system was weak and amounted to a national security risk was spurred on by
A)increased opposition to differentiation of students by ability.
B)the National Defense Education Act of 1958.
C)the Soviet launch of Sputnik.
D)All the answers are correct.
9
Underlying James Bryant Conant's efforts at school reform
A)were his concerns about the Soviet threat.
B)was his disgust at what he considered extraneous subjects such as foreign languages.
C)was his belief that academic and vocational students should attend separate high schools.
D)were his opinions regarding the power of the common man to successfully run government.
10
James Bryant Conant's advocacy of vocational education for black urban youth is similar to the theory of African-American education advanced by
A)W. E. B. Du Bois.
B)Charles Eliot.
C)Booker T. Washington.
D)Marcus Garvey.





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