Which of the following statements regarding racially segregated schools is true?
a. Racially segregated schools do not usually have high teacher-student ratios.
b. Segregated schools mirror race- and class-based residential segregation.
c. Efforts to bring about racial desegregation or integration have been extremely fast in this country.
d. More experienced teachers are sent to racially segregated schools where they are needed most.
Which of the following best describes report card framing?
a. The media gives students, teachers, and schools grades based on test scores.
b. Schools tend to focus attention and funding on students who perform well.
c. Parents tend to over-reward their children for receiving good grades.
d. The government only tracks the grades of the best-performing students, teachers, and schools.
Historically, agricultural groups have had relatively little influence in Texas politics.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
13. Which statement best describes the relationship between early immigration and education?
a. High rates of immigration in the nineteenth century brought about the free public school movement in the United States.
b. Most immigrants arriving in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries could read and write.
c. Some immigrants were required to earn a high school diploma before they were granted citizenship in the United States.
d. In the second half of the twentieth century, the United States experienced low immigration rates.
Texas has a right-to-work law that prohibits a union shop.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
In Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Supreme Court ruled that
a. bilingual education must be offered in schools where more than 25 percent of the student body speak a language other than English.
b. affirmative action is necessary to end racial-ethnic segregation in U.S. public schools.
c. separate but equal schools are unconstitutional because they are inherently unequal.
d. school busing to achieve racial-ethnic integration should be abolished because remedial efforts are no longer necessary.
The symbolic interactionist perspective
a. examines the relationship between the functions of education and problems in schools.
b. studies classroom dynamics and how practices such as labeling affect students' self-concept and aspirations.
c. focuses on how education perpetuates inequality based on race, sex, and gender.
d. fails to recognize education as an integral part of the socialization process
Why do some social analysts believe that illiteracy will not be a problem for the United States in the future?
a. New technology will make reading obsolete.
b. The definition of literacy has changed over time.
c. Schools have solved the illiteracy problem.
d. Fewer immigrants are moving to the Unites States.
11. A person who is unable to read or write at the skill level necessary for carrying out everyday tasks is said to be
a. learning disabled.
b. a symbolic interactionist.
c. a dysfunctional student.
d. functionally illiterate.
According to interactionists, IQ (Intelligence Quotient) tests
a. provide an accurate measure of how well students are doing in school.
b. strengthen students' feelings of self-esteem.
c. give an advantage to racial and ethnic minorities.
d. can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies regarding student performance.
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