Teaching in a Diverse Society Exam

Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools in the United States during 2017-8 was approximately ________.

$624 billion

One characteristic of successful schools is ________.

A close working relationship with parents

Critics of school boards point out that school boards are best described as agencies that ________.

Are reluctant to communicate a vision of educational excellence

Since the 1939-1940, the number of school districts in the United States has ________.

Decreased steadily

The arena of educational politics refers to how people use all of the following except ________.

Emotion

An influential and extensive federal education program signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1944 is the ________.

G.I. Bill of Rights

A federal program designed to provide preschool experiences to poor children is ________.

Head Start

A national survey of the characteristics of school board members revealed all of the following except ________.

Most members were poorer than the general population

The responsibility for maintaining schools is primarily a function of the ________.

States

Serving as professional advisor to the board of education is the responsibility of the ________.

Superintendent

Which of the following statements is true about the organizational structure of schools?

The larger the district, the more office administrators and support personnel are needed

Concerning political interest groups, professional teachers recognize that ________.

They have much to gain from becoming politically involved

According to the 2017 Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll, public attitudes toward school choice programs that would allow parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense revealed ________.

a significant majority in opposition

During President Clinton's term of office (1992-2000), the federal government ________.

assumed a more active role in ensuring equal educational opportunity

Advantages of for-profit schools that proponents advocate include each of the following except ________.

better public relations

State-appropriated funds to cover the costs of educating students with special needs are known as ________.

categorical aid

In most states, the head of the state board of education is the ________.

chief state school officer

The governor has the power to do all of the following except ________.

determine the cap on teacher salaries

Supplemental programs to help meet the needs of special school populations are called ________.

entitlements

Most school-based management (SBM) programs have all of the following components except ________.

final decisions of major issues rest with the local school board

Which of the following is considered to be one of the most controversial educational issues of the twenty-first century in the United States?

for-profit schools

The federal government initiative known as the Lanham Act provided funding for all of the following except ________.

postsecondary schooling for workers

At the local level, most funding for schools comes from ________.

property taxes

At the state level, most funding for schools comes from ________.

sales taxes and income taxes

Shared governance, administrative decentralization, teacher empowerment, professionalization, bottom-up policy-making, school based planning, and school-based management are all examples of ________.

school restructuring

An approach to school improvement in which teachers, principals, students, parents, and community members manage individual schools and share in the decision-making process is known as ________.

school-based management

The highest educational agency in a state is the ________.

state board of education

Should a dispute arise within a state regarding a law related to education, the body charged with the power to decide on the reasonableness of the law is the ________.

state court

Within a state, the body usually charged with the day-to-day implementation of educational policies is the ________.

state department of education

The body that determines how taxes will be used to support schools, what will or will not be taught, and the length of the school day and year is the ________.

state legislature

The majority of funding for schools is provided by the ________.

states

All of the following are responsibilities of the chief state school officer except ________.

supervising superintendents throughout the state

In one of the nation's most dramatic education reform efforts, the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) required each of the state's schools to form a school-based management council to set policy in each of the following areas except ________.

teachers' salaries

All of the following are powers of the states to maintain and support schools except ________

the right to fire teachers within local bargaining units

Allocating funds according to legitimate educational needs such as low-income students or students with limited English proficiency is called ________.

vertical equity

An approach whereby parents are given money by the state to enroll their children in the school of their choice is called a(n) ________.

voucher system