Exam 11: Education

There is no correlation between the amount of schooling received by children and the income status of their families.

In Germany, schools are divided into:

In modern society there is less to learn, so more of the total amount of knowledge can be acquired.

The percentage of the U.S. population receiving a high school and college education has decreased since 1960.

Credentializing is a positive term for excellence in education.

U.S. public education is designed to teach citizens to be literate so people can learn about politics and public policy to:

Why is the history of U.S. education important in understanding educational problems and possible solutions today?

As it relates to public school systems, what is meant by "5-3-4-4," which was common for most communities in the early 2000s?

An important reason why our educational system is not equal is the methods used to fund it.

There are four reasons why education serves as a fundamental building block of U.S. democracy. Identify and describe two of them.

Accountability of charter schools is achieved by:

Which group has the highest dropout rate?

The federal program that seeks to enhance the social and intellectual development of students as young as 3 years old is:

What is the dual nature of the U.S. educational system? How does the educational system attempt to accomplish both objectives?

Which of the following countries will pay for 90 percent of the cost of dissatisfied parents setting up their own school?

Britain has a national curriculum, tested by national exams.

The movement to make social institutions unbiased with respect to all ethnic groups is called the:

By 2014, the number of students in colleges and universities had increased more than eight times, to more than 60 million.

Research has found that attending independent schools leads children towards isolation, narrow interests, and poor socialization.

In the U.S. in the late nineteenth century, we developed a so-called: