What distinguishes subcultures from countercultures?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 2Which of these is not considered a competitor to the traditional public school?
a. the voucher system
b. charter schools
c. for-profit schools
d. magnet schools
e. back-to-basics education
Question 3What does vocabulary reveal about a culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 4According to Diane Ravitch, assistant education secretary under George W. Bush, school choice has failed to live up to expectations because
a. schools are not business organizations and cannot be run like one.
b. school choice is a hoax as long as there are federal laws mandating school attendance.
c. local school boards like the skills in finance and marketing to make their schools successful.
d. parents are not well-educated enough to make meaningful choices about education.
e. there is such a thing as having too much choice.
Question 5Why is language so important to culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 6The most common reason that parents give for homeschooling is
a. a belief they are better qualified to teach most subjects.
b. a concern with religious or moral deficits in public schools.
c. the lack of adequate math and science education in the public schools.
d. their child's serious health problems.
e. fear of having their child mix with students of different backgrounds.
Question 7What is the difference between ideal culture and real culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Question 8What is the nature of for-profit schools?
a. They are built around a particular specialty yet funded publicly.
b. They are public schools that are run like private schools and may develop their own curriculum.
c. They are based on the idea that market forces will solve the problems of education.
d. They permit parents to use public funds to enable their children to attend their school of choice.
e. They require students to pay to attend, but reinvest the money in public education initiatives.
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