Question 1

A federally funded program established in 1965 to improve the basic skills of low-ability students from low-income families is called______

Accepted Answer

Title I

Question 2

According to education data, the ethnic group that consistently has the lowest high school completion rate is _______

Accepted Answer

Hispanic

Question 3

All of the following are strategies for reducing the impact of gang activities on schools except ________.

Accepted Answer

retaining graffiti on school property as a symbol of gang destructiveness

Question 4

All of the following are influences on the culture of school except __

Accepted Answer

tax-based programs

Question 5

All of the following are characteristics of students at risk for dropping out of school except ____

Accepted Answer

performance at or above grade level

Question 6

An intervention approach based on a comprehensive service delivery network of teachers, social agencies, and health service agencies is ________.

Accepted Answer

the case management approach

Question 7

Teachers can rely on identifying at-risk factors as good indicators of ________ in their students.

Accepted Answer

potential academic problems

Question 8

The incidence of child abuse, poor health, underachievement in school, and attendance problems is higher among children who ________.

Accepted Answer

are homeless

Question 9

The organizational arrangement whereby academic subjects are taught by teachers who specialize in those areas and students move from classroom to classroom for their lessons is called ________.

Accepted Answer

departmentalization

Question 10

Groups that see the school as a means of perpetuating their preferred way of life include all of the following except ________.

Accepted Answer

public schools

Question 11

In a classroom, the physical characteristics of the setting and the social dimensions of the group interact to shape ________.

Accepted Answer

the classroom culture

Question 12

Mr. Fineday teaches in an elementary school where students do most of their work independently, with a number of teachers providing individual guidance as needed. His teaching area is also large and has movable walls and furniture that can be rearranged easily. Mr. Fineday teaches in a(n) ________.

Accepted Answer

open-space school

Question 13

Schools that are often the focal point for community life and reflect values and beliefs that tend to be fairly conservative are typically ________.

Accepted Answer

rural schools

Question 14

Since 1990 the teenage pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates have ________.

Accepted Answer

declined

Question 15

Between ________ is the most likely time for youth to engage in risk-taking or delinquent behaviors or to be victims of a crime.

Accepted Answer

3 p.m. - 8 p.m

Question 16

All of the following are true of female and male involvement in suicide except ________.

Accepted Answer

students in grade 12 are the most likely to attempt suicide

Question 17

The effective school is a caring community of adults who attend to the academic, emotional, and social needs of the children and youth entrusted to its care. This is a metaphor describing schools as ________.

Accepted Answer

families

Question 18

In regard to equal educational opportunity, evidence exists to demonstrate ________.

Accepted Answer

that certain groups are denied equality

Question 19

Measures of success for schools include all of the following except ________.

Accepted Answer

fewer numbers of children enrolled in special education

Question 20

Schools that serve their communities by integrating educational, medical, and social and/or human services are called ________.

Accepted Answer

full-service community schools

Question 21

A constructivist teacher would expect all of the following learnings from students except ________.

Accepted Answer

learning how to ready themselves for work

Question 22

A perennialistic curriculum should stress ________.

Accepted Answer

students\' intellectual growth in the arts and sciences

Question 23

A social reconstructionist curriculum would likely feature all of the following except ________.

Accepted Answer

study of the Great Books

Question 24

According to the text, all of the following are major philosophical orientations to teaching except ________.

Accepted Answer

behaviorism

Question 25

According to the text, your behavior as a teacher is strongly connected to your beliefs about all of the following except ________.

Accepted Answer

administrators

Question 26

An essentialistic curriculum would most likely emphasize ________.

Accepted Answer

basic skills

Question 27

An existentialist is most likely to believe that ________.

Accepted Answer

freedom has rules

Question 28

An understanding of philosophy of education is important for all of the following reasons except ________.

Accepted Answer

to help you enhance your professionalism in teaching

Question 29

Constructivism is based on the notion that ________.

Accepted Answer

knowledge is constructed by learners

Question 30

John Dewey (1859-1952) believed that ________.

Accepted Answer

public school curriculum should derive from students\' interests and needs

Question 31

John B. Watson (1878-1958) and B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) are most closely associated with the ________ branch of psychology.

Accepted Answer

behavioristic

Question 32

Jimmy has submitted a term paper that his teacher suspects was copied from the Internet. In deciding whether to give Jimmy a grade of \"F\" or have him attempt the assignment a second time, the teacher is confronted with a(n) ________.

Accepted Answer

ethical dilemma

Question 33

In the progressively oriented classroom, the teacher serves as ________.

Accepted Answer

a guide whose primary responsibility is to facilitate student learning

Question 34

In the 1950s and 1960s, humanistic psychology became the basis of educational reforms that sought to enhance students\' ________.

Accepted Answer

achievement of their potential through self-actualization

Question 35

Having a clear educational philosophy can help teachers to ________.

Accepted Answer

make appropriate decisions in the middle of a lesson

Question 36

Existential philosophy is unique in that it ________.

Accepted Answer

focuses on the experiences of the individual

Question 37

The most definitive description of the Socratic method can be said to consist of ________.

Accepted Answer

holding philosophical conversations

Question 38

Teachers\' beliefs about students are based on all of the following except ________.

Accepted Answer

their studies of the brain and cognitive changes

Question 39

Students who spend a great deal of time learning by rote memorization likely have a teacher who views knowledge as ________.

Accepted Answer

the sum total of small bits of subject matter

Question 40

Progressivism is based on the belief that education should be student-centered and adhere to all of the following assumptions except ________.

Accepted Answer

curriculum should focus on the enduring disciplines of knowledge

Question 41

Philosophy is concerned with ________.

Accepted Answer

identifying the basic truths about being, knowledge, and conduct

Question 42

Perennialism views truth as ________.

Accepted Answer

constant

Question 43

The professional goals a teacher sets are influenced by all of the following factors except ________.

Accepted Answer

college degrees

Question 44

When Dewey refers to the general theory of education, he is referencing ________.

Accepted Answer

the philosophy of education

Question 45

The transmission view of teaching includes all of the following except ________.

Accepted Answer

students learn by applying thinking to projects

Question 46

All of the following statements concerning the financing of education in the 50 states are generally correct except ________.

Accepted Answer

the states have similar regulations for funding schools

Question 47

Which of the following is considered to be one of the most controversial educational issues of the twenty-first century in the United States?

Accepted Answer

for-profit schools

Question 48

All of the following are powers of the states to maintain and support schools except ________.

Accepted Answer

the right to fire teachers within local bargaining units

Question 49

An approach to school improvement in which teachers, principals, students, parents, and community members manage individual schools and share in the decision-making process is known as ________.

Accepted Answer

school-based management

Question 50

State-appropriated funds to cover the costs of educating students with special needs are known as ________.

Accepted Answer

categorical aid

Question 51

At the local level, most funding for schools comes from ________.

Accepted Answer

property taxes

Question 52

Over the past decade, corporate contributions to education have ________.

Accepted Answer

significantly increased

Question 53

The responsibility for maintaining schools is primarily a function of the ________.

Accepted Answer

states

Question 54

Allocating funds according to legitimate educational needs such as low-income students or students with limited English proficiency is called ________.

Accepted Answer

vertical equity

Question 55

In one of the nation\'s most dramatic education reform efforts, the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) required each of the state\'s schools to form a school-based management council to set policy in each of the following areas except ________.

Accepted Answer

teachers salaries

Question 56

Shared governance, administrative decentralization, teacher empowerment, professionalization, bottom-up policy-making, school based planning, and school-based management are all examples of ________.

Accepted Answer

school reconstructing

Question 57

Ensuring that schools operate in accordance with federal and state guidelines is the responsibility of the ________.

Accepted Answer

superintendant

Question 58

Supplemental programs to help meet the needs of special school populations are called ________.

Accepted Answer

entitlements

Question 59

A federal program designed to provide preschool experiences to poor children is ________.

Accepted Answer

Head Start

Question 60

An influential and extensive federal education program signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1944 is the ________.

Accepted Answer

G.I. Bill of Rights

Question 61

Advantages of for-profit schools that proponents advocate include each of the following except ________.

Accepted Answer

better public relations`

Question 62

The highest educational agency in a state is the ________.

Accepted Answer

state board of education

Question 63

Programs in which states set the same per-pupil expenditure level for all schools and districts are called ________.

Accepted Answer

full-funding programs

Question 64

All of the following are responsibilities of the state department of education except ________.

Accepted Answer

passing legislation related to education

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