The relationship between educational performance and socioeconomic background and race is evident in the following:
a. There is a strong relationship between test scores in reading, writing, and mathematics and poverty.
b. Achievement gaps in reading, writing, and mathematics persist between minorities and white students.
c. African American, Latino, and Native American students lag behind their white peers in graduation rates and most other measures of student performance.
d. All of the above
Question 2From the ________ perspective, schools are of crucial importance in maintaining societal integration.
a. conflict
b. bias
c. order
d. deficiency
Question 3The American education system is moving toward greater ________ rather than less as more and more parents are opting to send their children to private school or to school them at home.
a. fragmentation
b. diversification
c. democratization
d. effectiveness
Question 4A ________, or a label of social disgrace, is attached to low-track students and is destructive to their self-concept.
a. taint
b. stigma
c. stain
d. blot
Question 5________ are a form of using public money to finance private education and are another way the educational system is fragmented.
a. Magnet schools
b. Charter schools
c. Parochial schools
d. Vouchers
Question 6Which of the following is not associated with the local control of the education system?
a. Quality of education varies depending on whether the tax base of the local area is strong or weak.
b. Dissatisfaction of the population with high taxes is often expressed at the local level in defeated school bonds and school tax levies.
c. Local school boards assume the responsibility of challenging the existing injustices in education.
d. Local control of education may mean that the religious views of the majority (or at least, the majority of the school board) may intrude in public education.
Question 7There is a lack of ________ across the nation's 14,000 school districts, which means that there are wide variations in the preparation of students and difficulties for students who move from one district to another.
a. curriculum preparation
b. curriculum standardization
c. grading standards
d. teacher training
Question 8The ________ views of the majority (or at least the majority of the school board) may intrude in public education as is evidenced by the fact that a goal of the Christian Coalition is to win control of local school boards.
a. personal
b. political
c. religious
d. moral
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