"[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 }"