"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] How do the public feel that schools can best be improved? B might be a surprising finding but that is what is reported in the text
{
By providing new school buildings
= By paying teachers more
By funding more private schools
By closing down poorly performing schools
By segregating schools
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which American president thought in terms of a meritocracy of talent?Information in the text
{
George Washington
=Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] What did the Morrill Act do during the Civil War?It was concerned with land grants for colleges.
{
It closed down the Southern universities
It freed private institutions from state control
=It gave each state huge land areas for education
It ordered the states to build new universities
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] For what did the federal government offer financial support in 1917?
{
new school buildings
teacher training programs
faith schools
private schools
=vocational education
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] For what purpose was Howard University founded in 1867?Together with the Hampton Institute in Virginia
{
=Educating African Americans
Training federal administrators
Educating women
Providing non-religious higher education
Educating Native Americans
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] What did the “G.I. Bill”of 1944 do?E was certainly a long-term result but essentially the bill was concerned with federal financial provisions
{
=Funded the education costs of veterans
Provided vocational education for veterans
Instructed universities to recruit more veterans
Set up special colleges for veterans
It effectively turned US higher education into mass education
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] What exactly was “white flight”?
{
Segregation on aircraft
The refusal of whites to send their children into desegregated schools
=Whites moving to the suburbs
Whites moving to other states where schools were still segregated
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] At which groups were the affirmative action programs of the 1970s aimed?Information in the text
{
Poor whites
Recent immigrants
Members of religious denominations
=Minority groups
=Women
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which presidential candidate threatened to close down the Department of Education if elected?Information in the text
{
=Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which aspects of the NCLB Act have given rise to the most controversy?Information in the text
{
Vouchers
Core curriculum subjects
Curriculum reform
=Standards
=Testing
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which of the following has been discarded in US school education?Because of increasingly pluralistic approaches to school education
{
Parent teacher associations
School boards
Local education authorities
=Americanizing immigrant children
Localist approaches
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Approximately what % of American children attend private schools in the US?Not surprising; there are well over 33,000 such schools
{
0.05
=0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] Which term best describes “community colleges”?Information in the text
{
They provide for children with special educational needs
They only accept students from the immediately surrounding area
They are technical colleges
They are vocational colleges
=They provide the first level of higher education
}"
"[MULTIPLE-MSELECT] How many US students study in the private sector of higher education?Information in the text
{
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
=0.25
}"