Educ 1101: Education In Modern Society.  Final Exam Study Guide

 

1.  Education neither providing students the opportunity to integrate into dominant culture nor preparing students for leadership roles within their native culture is

 

2.  INTASC stands for

 

3. The film Baraka depicts images of

 

4. Learning which comes from experience and reflects the needs of those being taught is referred to as __________ learning.

 

5.  The ___________ curriculum does not get addressed in schools.

 

6.  The idea of meritocracy assumes that  _________________ is the most important factor in student success in schools.

7. “Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail” is an observation made by

 

8.  What percentage of the total U.S. population is involved in the U.S. public school system on a daily basis?

 

9.  The __________ model of education views students as passive recipients of information.

 

10.  According to the Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup poll of 1999, the public perceived the biggest problem in school as:

 

11. The _________ theory suggests students reject curriculum they consider not relevant

 

12.  ________________ is characterized by cultural criticism that radically questions the logic of modern foundations of education.

 

13.  The creation of a just and sustainable culture through living in a balanced and sensible way--in order to take full advantage of the human resources--is:

 

14. The Schoolhouse Rock segment we listened to addressed:

 

15. Who started the first school for the blind in the U.S.?

 

16. Alfred Binet felt his 1904 I.Q. test should be used as a general guide to identifying

 

17. Regarding the United States’ history of gender roles, author Carolyn Heilbrun

explains “Whatever the form or medium, these stories have formed us all; they are      what we must use to make new ____________.”

 

18. Catherine Beecher is responsible for which of the following?

 

19.  _____________ means “the function or work of a teacher.”

 

20.  The ________________ movement of the nineteenth century called for common public education for all, but is argued to have favored men over women and whites over people of color.

 

21.  According to the Children’s Defense Fund, one in two preschoolers:

 

22.  Which of the following educational theorists would be considered a cultural conservative?

 

23.  Aldo Leopold suggests “A thing is right when it tends to

 

24.       Approximately what portion of teachers in the U.S. are women?

                                   

25.       Licensing of public school teachers is under the control of

 

26.       Provenzo refers to the 1962 Engle v. Vitale case as the most controversial case concerning the separation of church and state because

 

27.       Equal funding for men’s and women’s extracurricular activities was in response to the passing of

 

28.       Church-affiliated schools are known as _______________ schools.

 

29.       Approximately what percent of American students describe themselves as students of color?

 

30.       U.S. School boards got their start from legislation associated with

 

31.       Early common schools emphasized  ______________ curriculum, texts, and traditions.

 

32.  When we viewed Romeo and Juliet in class, we observed contrasts between

 

33.  Schools attempt to introduce students to high culture, which tends to represent

 

34. As discussed in class, what percentage of school administrators are from the power bloc?

 

35.       In the U.S., approximately ______ percent of all teachers identify themselves as being of color.

           

 

36.    In School District of Abington Township v. Schempp (1963), the Supreme Court clarified that the Bible could be used in schools

 

37.        Which U.S. city is currently allowing students to attend private schools with publicly funded vouchers?

 

 

38. At an 1848 women’s rights convention, feminist leaders drafted a series of resolutions, proposing what?

 

39.  Which important women’s rights leader argued that women should have not only equal educational opportunities, but also equal opportunities in the workplace?

 

40. An important victory for the women’s movement was the ratification of the 19th Amendment which

 

41. The ­­­­________ Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or sex.

 

42.       Black Codes after the Civil War included restrictions on:

 

43.  Which Supreme Court decision identified that separate education facilities were inherently unequal.

 

44.  In 1965, the  ESEA assigned one billion dollars in Title I funds to school districts to help disadvantaged children whose

 

45. According to Provenzo, the United States is a nation that was founded on the ______________ of indigenous people.

 

46. This term has been defined as a sense of peoplehood developed through language and traditions

 

47.  Essentially, compulsory _______________ was the policy established for African children under slavery.

 

48.       Approximately how many public school districts exist in the state of Minnesota?

 

49. About _____ of all marriages end in separation or divorce.

 

50. The idea of population and social characteristics refers to

 

51.  Which leader supported a policy of African American accommodation?

 

52.  Which leader rejected the idea that African Americans should be “as separate as the fingers” from the white population.

 

53.  Which of the following is a method used in deculturizing educational settings?

 

54.  Conditions of low social capital have almost always existed for the poor and working class.  What is new is the extent to which these conditions spread through the ________________ population by the end of the 20th century.

 

55.  What percent of married mothers with children (ages 6-17) were working outside of the home in 1998?

 

56.  Two ___________________ children are currently home schooled in the United States.

 

57.  The PBS series which we viewed in class is titled

 

58. What percent of the population falls within a special education category?

 

59. Early colonial textbooks pictured naked Native Americans saying to colonists

 

60. Songwriter Mason Jennings described the United States as a(n)

 

61. Which U.S. president served as commander-in-chief from a wheelchair?

 

62. The New York Times article regarding a controversy at the University of North Carolina addressed the topic of:

 

63. Provenzo asserts “If we are indeed a ______________ in action and not just in name, it is the obligation of the educational system to help—within reason—each and every student to become all he or she is capable of becoming.” 

 

64. Public secondary schools known as ______________ laid the foundation for many of today’s elite private schools.

 

65. Neil Postman argues that television increasingly is our

 

66. Television has taught us   

 

  1.  What percentage of U.S. households have a television set?

 

  1. The average person watches how many hours of television per day?

 

  1. For children, the likelihood of becoming __________increases by 2% with every hour of television watched per day

 

  1. Highly educated people watch ________ television than less well educated people

 

  1. The most widely circulated magazine in the U.S. is

 

  1. Historically, television has consistently ____________ our perceptions of ethnic and minority groups, as well as women.

 

  1. Statistics from the early 1990s indicate that the average child who views two to four hours of television daily witnesses approximately ____________ acts of violence by the time he or she completes elementary school.

 

  1. Educational television such as Sesame Street began to emerge during the _________.

 

  1. The creators of Children’s Television Workshop attempted to combine the successful elements of ­­­­­­­____________ television with current knowledge in learning and educational psychology.

 

  1. ____ % of teenagers use computers several times a week

 

  1. 76% of kids, 9-11 use a computer at school at least

 

  1. _____ % of families with annual incomes of $75,000 or more own a computer.

 

  1. The average age for first computer usage is ______ years.

 

  1. By age 18, the average student will have attended _____ thousand hours of school--and watched _____ thousand hours of television.

 

  1. Data collected on television viewing and violence from 1960 to present:  overwhelming evidence that higher levels of viewing violence on television correlates with increased aggressive behavior in

 

  1. 1990’s: The APA and Stanford University have found that television increases

 

  1. APA:  When teachers and parents regulate television viewing, children improve their

 

  1. _______________________ are too often left out of the technology picture

 

  1. ______% of kids between two and 17 have televisions in their bedrooms