chapter 4 into to teaching

Sexual Risk-Avoidance (SRA) curriculum is designed to promote _____ as the best choice for adolescent well-being.

abstinence from sex

Cyberbullying

can lead to the harassment of victims at all hours, in wide circles, and at warp speed.

In order to ease the effects of poverty and make education work for all students, schools

can offer students breakfast, recess, and physical education.

Which of the following is true of traditional tracking?

It suggests permanence.

Which of the following findings adds momentum to the effort to detrack?

Low-track students are seldom required to take as many math and science classes as high-track students.

Which of the following statements is true of today's family patterns?

More than half of American families are remarried or recoupled.

Which of the following is true of children from low-income homes?

They hear 13 million spoken words by age 4.

As gatekeepers, what do teachers do?

determine who will talk, when, and for how long

When teachers determine who will talk, when, and for how long, as well as the basic direction of the communication, they are carrying out the function of

gate keeping

Jeannie Oakes's Keeping Track

offered a scathing indictment of racial influence on tracking.

Nationwide, _____ of students graduate from high school.

only about 80 percent

By middle school, in a class of ten, typically how many students feel engaged by classroom life?

six

In typical classrooms, students are expected to

think quickly and perhaps superficially.

The term given to the process of assigning students of different abilities to different options of courses and programs, such as vocational, general, college-bound, honors, and AP, is _____.

tracking