A paradox of the American education system is that education is:
  • A social that stratifies students based on characteristics of their backgrounds even though it is intended to provide equal opportunity.
  • Housing now makes up a larger proportion of household budgets that in the past.
  • the process through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools- both general and specific are developed.
  • Reformulating it from scratch every few years to adjust for changes in the cost of living
Some policy experts believe that welfare creates more problems than it solves because it discourages people from finding work. This is also known as:
  • Aiding the poor creates more problems than it solves.
  • A perverse incentive
  • the negative income tax
  • Experienced less stress and better health
What was the name of the landmark court ruling that mandated desegregation of Americans schools?
  • Household stress levels and their on Jane's patience and parenting style.
  • It only focuses on income and ignores wealth.
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • That the effect of income on children's outcomes has been overstated.
Which of the following is NOT a finding of research examining the effects of class size on educational achievement?
  • They were less financially dependent on their (possibly) abusive husbands
  • Racial background
  • Housing now makes up a larger proportion of household budgets that in the past.
  • Class size in elementary school does not produce educational achievements as long
Research has shown that the _______________ the family, the _________________ the children's achievement on test scores and grades.
  • They were less financially dependent on their (possibly) abusive husbands
  • larger; lower
  • Tracking
  • Human capital
Broadly defined, education is:
  • Collection of relationships that can facilitate the actions and behaviors of others.
  • Wide-scale evaluation of date from students and school facilities showing that differences in school characteristics
  • A social that stratifies students based on characteristics of their backgrounds even though it is intended to provide equal opportunity.
  • the process through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools- both general and specific are developed.
Your text suggests that the researchers for the negative income tax should have focused on:
  • Higher stress levels among parents.
  • They experience material deprivation its affect parent's behavior
  • The children rather than their parents.
  • Economic circumstances
What do policy experts mean by the terms perverse incentives and unintended consequences?
  • Housing now makes up a larger proportion of household budgets that in the past.
  • A perverse incentive
  • It only focuses on income and ignores wealth.
  • Aiding the poor creates more problems than it solves.
The Coleman Report is a systematic:
  • the process through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools- both general and specific are developed.
  • They were less financially dependent on their (possibly) abusive husbands
  • Wide-scale evaluation of date from students and school facilities showing that differences in school characteristics
  • A social that stratifies students based on characteristics of their backgrounds even though it is intended to provide equal opportunity.
Why is the official formula for calculating the poverty line outdated?
  • Housing now makes up a larger proportion of household budgets that in the past.
  • It only focuses on income and ignores wealth.
  • Reformulating it from scratch every few years to adjust for changes in the cost of living
  • Class size in elementary school does not produce educational achievements as long
Minimizing the amount of time welfare programs require of their recipients was one of the many rationales behind:
  • More punitive parenting behaviors
  • Functionally illiterate
  • Experienced less stress and better health
  • the negative income tax
According to the underclass thesis, the poor men:
  • Deviant and dangerous to mainstream society.
  • A social that stratifies students based on characteristics of their backgrounds even though it is intended to provide equal opportunity.
  • It only focuses on income and ignores wealth.
  • More punitive parenting behaviors
Social capital is:
  • Collection of relationships that can facilitate the actions and behaviors of others.
  • Housing now makes up a larger proportion of household budgets that in the past.
  • the process through which academic, social, and cultural ideas and tools- both general and specific are developed.
  • Class size in elementary school does not produce educational achievements as long
One of the results of the negative income tax experiment was that more and more women left their marriages. This was because:
  • Higher stress levels among parents.
  • Class size in elementary school does not produce educational achievements as long
  • They were less financially dependent on their (possibly) abusive husbands
  • They experience material deprivation its affect parent's behavior
Susan Mayer, author of What Money Can't Buy: Family Income and Children's Life Chances, found in her study:
  • Innumerate
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • They were less financially dependent on their (possibly) abusive husbands
  • That the effect of income on children's outcomes has been overstated.
Poverty has a strong effect on children's life changes because:
  • Higher stress levels among parents.
  • They were less financially dependent on their (possibly) abusive husbands
  • They experience material deprivation its affect parent's behavior
  • The children rather than their parents.
Which nation has one of highest poverty rates in the advanced world?
  • Absolute poverty
  • United States
  • The median income in a given location, anything under that number is considered poverty
  • Innumerate
In 2010, approximately _________________ percent of American adults over the age of 25 had a college degree.
  • Human capital
  • 19
  • Tracking
  • larger; lower
A policy maker wants to recalculate poverty based on a set percentage of the median income for each metropolitan area in the United States instead of a national average. Example would be:
  • Relative poverty
  • Aiding the poor creates more problems than it solves.
  • A perverse incentive
  • larger; lower
What is one shortcoming of the current calculation of the poverty rate?
  • It only focuses on income and ignores wealth.
  • Higher stress levels among parents.
  • Housing now makes up a larger proportion of household budgets that in the past.
  • Reformulating it from scratch every few years to adjust for changes in the cost of living
One of the major ways that poverty affects children's life chance is through:
  • It only focuses on income and ignores wealth.
  • Higher stress levels among parents.
  • They were less financially dependent on their (possibly) abusive husbands
  • The children rather than their parents.
The stress that poor parents experience manifests itself in:
  • the negative income tax
  • The children rather than their parents.
  • Experienced less stress and better health
  • More punitive parenting behaviors
William, a 17 year-old high school student, chooses products in the grocery store by looking at the pictures on the labels of the goods on the shelves because he cannot read many of the words. William would be considered:
  • the negative income tax
  • Human capital
  • Functionally illiterate
  • Hidden curriculum
Which of the following is NOT an element of socioeconomic status?
  • Class size in elementary school does not produce educational achievements as long
  • Higher stress levels among parents.
  • Racial background
  • Human capital
When classrooms are divided into ability levels, type of preparation, or according to future plans is called:
  • Human capital
  • Tracking
  • larger; lower
  • Reformulating it from scratch every few years to adjust for changes in the cost of living
Theorists who believe in poverty is relational measure poverty by determining:
  • That the effect of income on children's outcomes has been overstated.
  • Innumerate
  • The median income in a given location, anything under that number is considered poverty
  • Household stress levels and their on Jane's patience and parenting style.
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