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The rationale for schools operated by white church missionaries to teach Native American children was based on |
| | A) | cultural difference theory. |
| | B) | expectation theory. |
| | C) | deficit theory. |
| | D) | resistance theory. |
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After the Civil War, the government agency established to provide education to black Americans was the |
| | A) | Bureau of Minority Affairs. |
| | B) | Freedmen's Bureau. |
| | C) | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
| | D) | United States Department of Education. |
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School desegregation progressed rapidly as a result of |
| | A) | Plessy v. Ferguson. |
| | B) | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. |
| | C) | Hopwood v. State of Texas. |
| | D) | The Civil Rights Act. |
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Racial isolation that occurs in schools as a result of policies and practices such as tracking and placement in special education classes is called |
| | A) | hypersegregation. |
| | B) | intrasegregation. |
| | C) | resegregation. |
| | D) | second generation segregation. |
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Which of the following statements best characterizes trends in desegregation during the last twenty years? |
| | A) | Court cases such as Hopwood and Michigan have pushed integration efforts into higher education by mandating that colleges put admissions policies into effect to increase diversity on campus |
| | B) | Due to the increasing racial diversity of school-age children in the United States, most students—although not all students—across the nation now attend integrated schools. |
| | C) | Desegregation efforts such as magnet programs have been effective in integrating schools, as well as the academic and social lives of students. |
| | D) | Court decisions have reduced school busing and firm racial set-asides in college, significantly increasing racial segregation in the nation's schools. |
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Hispanics are the youngest and fastest-growing group in the United States. By the year 2030, Hispanic children will represent what percentage of the school-age population? |
| | A) | one-tenth |
| | B) | one-fourth |
| | C) | one-third |
| | D) | one-half |
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The high school dropout rate is highest for |
| | A) | white students. |
| | B) | black students. |
| | C) | hispanic students. |
| | D) | black and hispanic students drop out of high school at equally high rates. |
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Which of the following immigrant groups often faces racial as well as religious intolerance in schools and in society? |
| | A) | Arab-Americans |
| | B) | Samoan-Americans |
| | C) | Hmong-Americans |
| | D) | Mexican-Americans |
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Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibits sexual discrimination in schools. The focus of the law |
| | A) | guarantees equal funding and resources for female athletes in school. |
| | B) | prevents the expulsion of female students who become pregnant, or the male students who made them pregnant. |
| | C) | prevents male students from harassing other male students. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
| | E) | A and B only. |
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"American schools may be doing better than we think." Which of the following best supports that statement? |
| | A) | Students in other nations are lagging behind American students on the most recent round of international tests. In fact, many nations now are forced to provide students with extra schooling, such as Juku schools in Japan, to help their students "catch up" with students in the U.S. |
| | B) | By the 1990s, the overall high school graduation rate in the U.S. approached a record 95 percent, the highest rate in the world. |
| | C) | U.S. students are staying in school longer than before and are enrolling in more challenging courses. |
| | D) | Recent analysis of the impact of the standards movement has revealed that the new and more demanding curricular standards have made the U.S. curriculum more rigorous than the curricula not only of western Europe but Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea as well. |
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