As part of the effort to address the problems of education and meet public demands for educational accountability, one of the incremental reforms in standards has been
a. adoption, in all but five states, of a competency test that must be passed for high school graduation.
b. adoption of competency testing in most states before a student can graduate from high school.
c. requiring all public school teachers to pass a written competency test in the subject matters that they teach.
d. adoption of competency testing in all fifty states to monitor student progress and program effectiveness onbasic skills.
Q. 2Which of the following statements about the policy process in South Africa is NOT true?
a. Sudden policy shifts occurring without elaborate consultation have been rare in post-apartheid South Africa.
b. Post-apartheid governments initially emphasized a participatory approach to policy-making.
c. The surest way to influence the policy-making process is through access to the president's office and the informal networks that surround it.
d. Economic issues have been put at the center of politics in post-apartheid South Africa in large part because of the government's commitment to fiscally conservative policies.
e. For the post-apartheid transition period, between 1994 and 1999, a power-sharing coalition helped to reassure racial minorities.
Q. 3Regarding voucher programs, private schools generally
a. support the programs because they stand to reap substantial gains.
b. oppose the programs because they fear increased enrollment.
c. support the programs because they always provide superior education relative to public schools.
d. oppose the programs because they always provide inferior education and prefer students attend publicschools.
Q. 4Which of the following is NOT true about municipal governments in South Africa?
a. Since 1999, they have been the agencies preferred by the national government for delivering developmental projects.
b. Most cities are governed by ANC-dominated administrations.
c. Voter turnout in local elections has been high because voters have been unhappy with their local authorities.
d. Corruption is especially entrenched in local government.
e. Although big cities draw the bulk of their revenue from local taxes, smaller municipalities are heavily dependent upon government grants.
Q. 5Business leaders have
a. depended solely on public education to prepare their workers in the current crisis.
b. been closely aligned with efforts to improve education since the early days of the nation.
c. sometimes seen education as an unnecessary expense but recently have become more involved in efforts toimprove it.
d. generally opposed performance-based accountability for school activities.
Q. 6The South African National Defense Force
a. is about the same size as the country's police force.
b. has played a major role in peacekeeping efforts.
c. has increasingly been called upon to provide internal security.
d. is seen by many experts as being seriously underfunded, undermanned, and ill-equipped.
e. is tightly integrated into regional defense structures.
Q. 7Court-ordered busing to achieve school desegregation policies was mandated as a result of
a. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Schools (1971).
b. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954).
c. San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973).
d. Missouri v. Jenkins (1990).
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