A primary purpose of _____ was to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students by holding schools accountable for students' learning. The law required states to test every student's progress toward meeting specific standards that were established for each level of schooling.
a. Americans Education Act (AEA)
b. Americans Recovery Program (ARP)
c. Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
d. No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Question 2The Milgram study provides evidence that obedience to authority may be more common than most of us would like to believe.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 3Nearly __________ people around the world are malnourished.
a. 100 million
b. 500 million
c. 1 billion
d. 3 billion
Question 4In 2003, two U.S. Supreme Court decisionsGrutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollingermade it legal to use _____ as a factor for universities to grant preferential treatment in admissions, but only within carefully defined limits.
a. age b. gender
c. national origin d. race
Question 5In a series of experiments conducted by Solomon Asch, the pressure toward group conformity was so great that participants were willing to contradict their own best judgment if the rest of the group disagreed with them.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 6The __________ is a measure of the number of deaths per thousand live births in a calendar year.
a. infant mortality rate
b. crude-birth rate
c. fertility rate
d. crude-death rate