Education Final multiple choice

Recent figures indicate that all expenditures of state and local governments nationally (approximately $2 trillion), what percentage was for education?

33

What is meant by the phrase "In loco parentis"

Acting in place of the parents

Which of the following would be an example of "privatization"?

An education management organization assumes administration of a public school

"School Choice" refers to which of the following?

Available educational options apart from the neighborhood school

Which of the following Supreme Court decisions deemed the policy of "separate but equal" educational opportunities as unconstitutional?

Brown V. Board of Education (1954)

Your rights to privacy as a college student are part of what federal legislation?

Buckley Amendment

Which of the following borrows from Piaget's idea of an ever-expanding and dynamic knowledge base, and from Vygotsky's notion of learning as an exercise in social interaction?

Constructivism

It has been difficult to articulate the purpose of schools because:

Different groups (parents, business, educators, politicians) have different expectations

The greatest share of education funding and the responsibility for securing and disbursing that funding is best described by which of the following statements?

Each state bears the responsibility for public education within its borders

The school grade range at which there is a shift in emphasis from learning to read to reading to learn is:

Elementary

Which of the following Supreme Court rulings handed down the decision that a state-written prayer for use in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment?

Engel V. Vitale (1962)

Which of the following represents the branch of philosophy concerned with the way in which people come to know things?

Epistemology

"Back to Basics" and the idea that there are core skills and knowledge that all students should acquire for sustaining our social order is characteristic of which of the following?

Essentialism

Ethics relate to morals in which of the following ways?

Ethics represent a code of behavior for preserving one's moral beliefs

Which philosophy places the responsibilities that come with being a thinking being on the soul?

Existentialism

In 1975, Public Law 94-142 required schools to provide a free and appropriate public education to which of the following groups?

Handicapped children between 3 and 18

The texts suggests that the growing use of computer based programmed instruction together with an emphasis on character education represents a combining behaviorism and which other psychological perspective

Humanism

Rene Descartes' maxim, cogito ergo sum, is most closely linked with which philosophy

Idealism

A Code of Ethics for Teachers has been published by which organization?

National Education Association (NEA)

Some say the federal government's responsibility with regard to education is included in the U.S Constitution, whereas others say it is not. Which side is correct?

Neither side is absolutely correct because education is not specifically mentioned in the US Constitution

The earliest of the federal land grants providing land for public schools were which of the following?

Northwest Ordinances

The Grade level cluster of prekindergarten through grade 3 is referred to as:

Primary

By law, which of the following indiciduals wold be charged with responsibility for overseeing all activities of a particular shchool building?

Principal

John Dewey is most closely associated with which of the following philosophical movements?

Progressivism

Which philosophy would hold the expectation that teachers should be experts in their subject matter and liberally educated so they might appreciate the place of their subject in relation to others?

Realism

Which of the following philosophies suggested that teachers should have an affective emphasis and should engage students in questions of moral dilemmas as a means to understanding the implications of one's actions?

Social Reconstructionism

The text suggests that a code of ethics is important for a teacher for which of the following reasons?

Teachers hold a position of influence

Which of the following is the reason most often given by parents for homeschooling their children?

The child can get a better education at home

Axiology is characterized by an emphasis on which of the following?

Truths that are so universally accepted as to be considered self-evident

Which of the following is charged with setting policy and hiring and firing in individual public school districts

local board of education