chapter 6
The purpose of schools focuses on preparing students for their optimal role in society.
What is social efficiency?
Occupation, income, and education are the three main measures of this primary indicator of a family's standard of living
What is socioeconomic status (SES)?
Most children live with two parents who have never been divorced.
What is False?
Constitutional amendment that guarantees the right of due process by law for teachers
What is the fourteenth amendment?
The type of segregation or resegregation caused by housing patterns and other non-legal factors
learning the characteristics and behaviors of a group’s culture.
What is enculturation?
This federal law was designed to guarantee equal educational opportunity for girls and women
What is Title IX?
The percentage of children under 18 years old living with two parents is
What is 70%
Procedures designed to ensure that under-represented populations have equal opportunities
What is affirmative action?
The failure of a teacher to exercise due care may lead to the teacher being charged with
What is negligence?
Allows families to select educational options beyond their assigned school
What are school choices?
This is the most commonly used language among students with hearing disabilities
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
At what age have children learned their gender and begun to exhibit stereotypical behavior?
What is 5-6 years old?
Act of Congress encouraging the education of individuals with disabilities
What is the IDEA?
The movement to establish special committees of teachers and parents to work with the principal in making decisions at the school level is known as
Communities often face teacher shortages, limited courses, and inadequate funding.
What are rural communities?
This amendment to the Constitution both prohibits the government from establishing a religion and protects the free exercise of religion.
What is the first amendment?
The section of the Educational Amendment Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender is called
What is Title IX
Financial aid given to schools by the government, intended for a specific purpose
What is categorical aid?
The powers not delegated to the US by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people is part of the
What is the tenth amendment?
Purpose of schools involves teaching teamwork, decision-making, and critical thinking for jobs.
What is workforce readiness?
This approach to education fully integrates all students and requires collaboration between general and special education teachers.
What is inclusion?
Public schools with large numbers of students near/ below the poverty level are eligible for a federal program designed to help students meet state academic standards is known as
What is Title I
The concept that decisions about education should be made within each individual district rather than at the state or national level
What is local control?
Historically, this has been the primary source of local revenue for schools
What is property tax?