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Equality in Educational Opportunities MCQ

Equality in Educational Opportunities MCQ

1. ______ reappropriate governmental education funding, which is typically designated for public schools, to individual families who must use the money toward private school tuition.

Answer

Correct Answer: Voucher programs

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2. ______ are schools that offer opportunities to low-income, students of color, and are aimed at addressing inequality in education.

Answer

Correct Answer: Charter schools

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3. ______ refers to a multi-billion-dollar industry that provides private educational services outside of formal schooling.

Answer

Correct Answer: Shadow education

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4. Disparities in disciplining students can lead to a ______, a phenomena that increases the likelihood of incarceration for students of color or low-income.

Answer

Correct Answer: School-to-prison pipeline

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5. When school counselors treat students differently, such as suggesting college preparation classes or vocational options, based on race, class or gender, the counselors are engaging in ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Implicit tracking

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6. ______ occurs when policies or people guide students into certain areas of study.

Answer

Correct Answer: Explicit tracking

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7. One solution to entice students to attend schools with a low enrollment rate is to create specialized programs; these schools are known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Magnet schools

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8. ______ is a problem which results in lack of materials, lack of qualified teachers, and unsafe conditions in which students attend schools.

Answer

Correct Answer: Funding

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9. ______ operate independently of most government funding and regulations.

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Correct Answer: Private schools

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10. The United Nations (UN) considered free elementary education and accessible higher education ______.

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Correct Answer: Fundamental right

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11. Creating a student-centered classroom is characteristic of which of the following theories?

Answer

Correct Answer: Critical pedagogy

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12. ______ is an approach to education rooted in the belief that teaching and learning are inherently political acts.

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Correct Answer: Critical pedagogy

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13. Claiming that schools reproduce social stratification is characteristic of which theory?

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Correct Answer: Social reproduction theory

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14. According to the theory, ______ schools systematically provide access to the knowledge, skills, and credentials that people need to “attain status,” or find suitable, appropriate positions in society.

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Correct Answer: Status attainment

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15. ______ is a process that results in learning, and it can occur in a variety of settings and toward a host of ends.

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Correct Answer: Education

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16. School discipline policies that require officials to issue quick and severe punishments for any student behavior interpreted as potentially threatening or dangerous is called Zero tolerance

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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17. Voucher programs are ublic education funding given to families to use toward private-school tuition

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Correct Answer: True

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18. A U.S. government program that allocates federal aid to schools with large proportions of low-income students. Schools must use Title I funding to support at-risk students by implementing evidence-based practices that increase student achievement and parent involvement is called

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Correct Answer: Title I

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19. The phenomenon of students losing academic gains over the summer, such that they return to school in the fall knowing less than they knew before summer break; also called summer setback or summer slide is called Summer learning loss

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Correct Answer: True

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20. Status attainment is a theoretical perspective that interprets schools as society’s providers of access to the knowledge, skills, and credentials that people need to _______or find suitable, appropriate positions in society

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Correct Answer: Attain status

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21. A multi-billion-dollar industry that provides private educational services outside of formal schooling, including private tutoring, online courses, and cram sessions, which aim to improve students’ performance on coursework and tests is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Shadow education

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22. A web of policies, practices, and conditions that increase the likelihood of arrest and incarceration for low-income students of color is called. School-to-prison pipeline

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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23. A _____ in which an institution delivers a relatively standardized curriculum is called Schooling

Answer

Correct Answer: Formalized process

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24. Schools that operate independently of most government funding and regulations. To attend private schools, students must apply and be accepted, agree to particular codes of conduct, and pay tuition is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Private schools

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25. Public schools that offer specialized programming and curricula—for instance a focus on science or the arts—to attract students from outside the immediate neighborhood. Magnets are often designed to draw White students into minority neighborhoods is known as

Answer

Correct Answer: Magnet schools

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26. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a comprehensive special education law passed in ______, guaranteeing all students a “free and appropriate public education” tailored to their individual needs

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Correct Answer: 2004

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27. Subtle, sometimes unintentional practices that differentiate expectations for, and behaviors toward, students is called Implicit tracking

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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28. Unwritten—and sometimes unintended—lessons about values and behaviors that schools convey and students infer is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Hidden curriculum

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29. Policies or practices that overtly guide students into certain areas of study. For example, many countries use explicit tracking to channel students into specialized ________ is called Explicit tracking

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Correct Answer: Secondary schools

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30. Promoting fairness by providing individuals and groups with what they need to be successful. In an educational setting, this might mean treating students and communities differently, according to their unique needs is known as

Answer

Correct Answer: Equity

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31. Treating everyone the same, or equally, as a way of being fair. In an educational setting, this might mean implementing the same teaching style to deliver instruction to all students or administering one standardized exam to assess everyone’s learning is known as

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Correct Answer: Equality

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32. A process that results in learning; the culmination of everything people learn in their lifetimes in a variety of settings—facts, skills, and ways of thinking gained through reading, observing, interacting, and experiencing; also the institution responsible for passing on knowledge and skills is called

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Correct Answer: Education

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33. Critical pedagogy is an approach to education rooted in the belief that teaching and learning are inherently political acts that involve creating a student-centered classroom, which helps even the playing field for students by treating them all as thinkers and leaders

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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34. Publicly funded but privately run schools that all students are eligible to attend for free is called

Answer

Correct Answer: Charter schools

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35. Formal or informal practices that place students on particular “tracks,” or pathways, characterized by different academic experiences and outcomes is called Academic tracking

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Correct Answer: True

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