This quiz titled 'Foundations in Ed Chapter 4' assesses understanding of educational goals, the role of schools in society, and influential educational theories. It evaluates knowledge on standards, economic reconstructionism, and John Goodlad's studies, crucial for educators and students in education fields.
Believe that students can effectively meet their academic challenges.
Organize their classrooms effectively so that management problems and disruptions are minimized.
Use their academic teaching time more efficiently
Move their academic efforts into the community, involving students in more meaningful activities that have obvious social benefits.
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. transmitting society’s knowledge and values
. reconstructing society
Developing individual talent and self-expression
Developing strong self-esteem
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Changing practices at the school level and empowering teachers and principals
Strengthening central offices and strictly regulating schools.
Having schools provide a wide variety of health and social services.
Increasing the length of the school day and school year.
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. are a form of distance learning
Create the illusion of attending a school, but these schools are not accredited.
Are responsible for raising standards by extending the school day.
Are responsible for raising standards by extending the school day.
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Magnet schools
Open enrollment
Charter schools
For-profit schools
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A Place Called School
A Nation at Risk
The Great School Debate: Choice, Vouchers, and Charters
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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Limit the extent of privatization of schools.
Determine the legality of government funds used in religious schools.
Promote effective charter schools in urban areas.
Regulate the explosive growth of home schooling.
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“cafeteria-style” curriculum and declining test scores.
Failure to tend to children’s health and well-being
Superficial curriculum covering too many topics in too little depth.
Poor performance in achieving educational equity for girls and students of color.
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Are for-profit, charter schools with an uncertain future.
Are true “virtual schools” delivering instruction over the Internet to clusters of home-schooled students.
Quickly proved that profits can go hand-in-hand with raising test scores and improving teacher morale.
Give teachers uncommon flexibility in their approach to teaching reading and math.
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Stronger than ever as a result of spectacular gains on standardized tests and the focus on greater accountability.
In competition with magnet schools, charter schools, and even for-profit schools.
Criticized by Jonathan Kozol, who believes we’ve given neighborhood schools every chance to perform.
Threatened most by a rise in home schooling
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U.S. schools have taken responsibility for too few policies and goals.
U.S. schools have taken responsibility for too many policies and goals.
Academic and vocational goals are more important than individual and social goals
The goals students and parents hold for schools differ sharply from educators’ goals for schools.
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Total freedom from state regulations.
Permission to operate for a fixed length of time
The advantage of being able to administer admissions tests
State-of-the-art facilities.
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Service learning can change society’s problems.
Companies need to invest more money in schools.
Schools are tools of oppression
None of the choices.
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The vast majority rated social and civic goals most important.
Students and parents rated personal goals highest; teachers rated academic goals highest.
Vocational, personal, academic, and social and civic goals were all rated “very important.”
Students overwhelmingly favored vocational goals above all others.
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Student performance compared to others in the nation.
. mastery over a designated body of knowledge.
. student reference and library skills.
Objective answers in math and science. objective answers in math and science. objective answers in math and science.
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. any of Milton Friedman’s early works
. the U.S. Department of Education’s A Nation at Risk
Paulo Freire’s The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Supreme Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman
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Score just below national averages on standardized tests.
Have greater opportunities for socialization than their public school counterparts.
Are often home-schooled for religious reasons.
Have dwindled in number as parents have taken advantage of open enrollment, charter schools, and vouchers to bypass their neighborhood public schools.
Researcher John Goodlad.
Writer Jonathan Kozol.
Researcher James Coleman.
Economist Milton Friedman.
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. promote multiple school missions.
Spend most of their time meeting with parents.
Require teachers to do after-school tutoring.
Create a safe and positive school climate.
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Open enrollment is the term given to
the use of public monies to send children to private schools.
The constitutionally protected right of all students to enroll in public schools, without discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or handicapping condition.
The elimination of the requirement that students attend the closest public school.
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Vagueness of the term “effective schools.”
Vagueness of prescriptive steps to establish effective schools.
Overrepresentation of suburban schools.
Heavy focus on elementary schools.
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Requiring graduate-level study for teacher preparation.
Restructuring the high school curriculum to better reflect student interests and concerns.
Steering more resources toward special-education students and racial and ethnic minorities.
Reducing electives and increasing courses required for graduation from high school.
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Children should be home-schooled if they wish to excel in business.
Voucher systems threaten to undermine the shared fabric of American life.
Profits can be realized by investing in education.
Schools should become one-stop shops for children’s services.
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Early intervention programs
Smaller schools and smaller classes
Teacher training
Technology
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Nurture intellectual skills.
Participate in a democratic society.
Develop individual talents.
Become more accepting of individual differences.
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Little change in the basic goals for school over time.
A consistent emphasis on raising standards and improving academic performance.
.a consistent emphasis on meeting the needs of diverse learners and raising self-esteem.
That school goals tend to change to reflect the nation’s ever-changing priorities.
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To prepare workers to compete successfully in a technological world economy
To transmit the nation’s cultural heritage, preserving past accomplishments and insights
To educate students in avoiding social pitfalls: unwanted pregnancy, AIDS, drugs, and alcoholism
To encourage students to question and reform current practices and institutions
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Principals are focused on research and funding
School leaders and teachers do not hold unrealistically high expectations for students
. Midterm and final exams provide the only necessary checks on student performance so that teaching can be adjusted accordingly
School goals are enunciated by the principal and followed by teachers and students
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