Chapter 11-12 – Flashcards
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What effect did the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have upon public education?
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Legal responsibility for school governance was delegated to the states.
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Which of these bodies makes law and is considered the most influential in setting up educational policy?
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State legislature
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The state of Illinois wants to establish a policy regarding its public education in the twenty-first century. Illinois wants to create a broad-based policy outlining its priorities and establishing its goals for the state's students. Which agency would issue this policy?
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The state board of education
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Overseeing the administration of teacher licensure requirements, organizing programs of study, supervising elementary and secondary education program assessment, and applying school finance laws are all tasks of
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the chief state school officer.
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The agency that administers and distributes state and federal funds, certifies or licenses teachers, and accredits professional training programs is the
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State department of education.
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Heidi Pfluger is interviewing for a teaching position in the Florham Park school system. According to school management and organization, which of the following is the formal hiring authority?
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Local school board
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The typical holder of this position is white, male, and college-educated, and has a managerial or professional job unrelated to the position. The position is
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local school board member.
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Which of the following people is most representative of the typical school board member?
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John Baster, a white, fifty-one-years old, who has an M.B.A. and is an executive at a computer software company
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Brian Bomberger spends part of his work time interviewing and promoting personnel. He ensures that there are adequate funds to run school facilities through his planning and administration of the budget, and he also is responsible for administering curriculum and instruction. What is Brian's occupation?
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District superintendent
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Susan Breiner has just completed interviewing two prospective faculty members, has sent in a large teaching supply order, has proofread the new school discipline policy written by a team of teachers, and has reviewed the school budget for the next academic year. Based upon those activities, what is Susan?
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School principal
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During recent presidential elections, hundreds of thousands of educators have been mobilized to support a particular party platform and the candidate endorsed by that party. Which organization has been instrumental in influencing the educators to support a particular candidate?
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National Education Association
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A major reason that it is difficult to implement educational reforms and achieve the desired effects is
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American education is a giant institution with standard operating procedures that set certain expectations.
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The long-term goals that undergird school reform are threefold:
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develop the democratic citizen, the good worker, and the good person.
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Which of the following is not listed as a key element of true school reform as defined by Ryan and Cooper?
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School choice
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The "call to excellence" movement places high expectations on both students and teachers. The focus of this movement is to
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set high standards and earn self-esteem by achieving them.
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In a constructivist approach to learning, learners
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actively make their own meaning from new knowledge.
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Mildred teaches a fifth-grade class in which she applies a constructivist approach to learning. What would Mildred's classroom probably look like?
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Students work on projects in small groups or independently. There are a lot of hands-on activities.
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Authentic assessment grew out of a concern that
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The emphasis on standardized test scores caused a narrow application of lower-order thinking skills.
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Portfolio assessment allows the teacher to determine a student's progress toward certain learning goals or standards. Still, concerns about authentic assessment remain, in particular
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the reliability and validity of the assessments from site to site and evaluator to evaluator.
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Smaller schools are often a recommended component of school reform because they
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allow for a greater sense of community within the school.
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Reformers criticize large schools and fault them with being partly responsible for the decline in academic achievement because they
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create an aura of impersonality in which students feel lost, disengaged, and unmotivated.
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Ryan and Cooper contend that the Tools for Learning, a set of academic learning skills, ought to be a major component of school reform because these skills
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can train students' thinking so as to make them more efficient learners.
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Character educators would like to redefine a "good" student as being one who
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has a good sense of right and wrong.
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Joshua is a high school history teacher who believes that his role as teacher extends to teaching his ninthgrade students certain core values, such as honesty, justice, kindness, and respect. Which of the following would most likely be found in Joshua's classroom?
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A discussion of the responsibilities of the United States toward Europe in the early 1940s
