Exam 12: Problems in Education

Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms gave English- and French-speaking minorities the right to educate their children in their first language (mother tongue).

Which of the following does grade inflation and social promotion often lead to?

For some unexplained reason, Canada has never adopted any form of Head Start programs.

Children from poor families are more likely to have lower functioning, vision, hearing, speech, mobility, dexterity, and cognition than children from better-off families.

Parents in low-income brackets are as likely as parents in higher income brackets to expect their children to go on to college or university.

According to Althuser, who profits the most from the educational system?

As a young woman in school, what can I probably expect less of from my teachers?

Worldwide, over 120 million children do not attend school and over 880 million adults are illiterate.

Which perspective is concerned with teacher-student interactions, the student's self-esteem, and the self-fulfilling prophecy?

Discuss the reasons why students from low-income families achieve lower levels of education on average than students from middle- and upper-income families.

Which of the following groups has traditionally been excluded from curriculum development?

Boys are more likely than girls to exhibit discipline problems in schools and to drop out of school.

When cultural imperialism exists, the norms, values, traditions, and languages of minorities are ignored.

In Canada, which of the following is more common among children in low-income families than among children in middle- and higher-income families?

What are alternative schools? What roles do they serve in the contemporary Canadian educational system?

According to research conducted by Muller and Schiller (2000), students from higher socioeconomic brackets are less likely to enrol in advanced mathematics course credits than students from lower socioeconomic brackets.

Approximately 66 percent of the world's illiterate population are men.

Under the terms of the British North America Act of 1867, education is a provincial responsibility and each province has the constitutional authority to develop its own educational system.

According to a 1999 survey of 2000 Alberta students in grades 7 to 12, in what grade was the rate of violence among students highest?

In which of the following cities can those who bully be given a $250 ticket?