The Changing Purposes of American Education (Chapter 13)
The 1960s brought increased attention to...
What are disadvantaged students?
The back-to-basics curriculum has been criticized because it...
What is the suppresses the students' creativity?
Student diversity (differences in race, ethnicity, religion, language, etc.) is least prevalent in schools in ______________.
What is Japan?
Direct instruction has been criticized for not emphasizing ___________.
What is reasoning and critical thinking?
Female enrollment in college has surpassed male enrollment in most countries except _________.
What is Japan?
Schools interested in proposing a curriculum consistent with A Nation at Risk would probably offer...
What is science?
This subject could be identified as an "exploratory subject”.
What is drama?
This aspects of education appears to be most consistent among countries.
What is the instructional method?
When direct instruction focuses on developing higher-order thinking, it is called __________.
What is explicit comprehension instruction?
_________________detailed policies and procedures for including children with disabilities in a regular classroom.
What is The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
______________ forced change in the school curriculum by steering children towards science and math.
What is The National Defense Educational Act?
This person is best known as an early leader in the movement for an activity-centered curriculum.
Who is William Kilpatrick?
Germany is well known for this particular program.
What is vocational and technical education?
One technique of explicit comprehension instruction involves _____________.
What is using students using prior knowledge to make predictions about the text?
When the curriculum is aligned, teachers are less likely to _______________.
What is rely solely on textbooks?
Behavioral or performance objectives often focus on _____________.
What is content or a specific skill?
The ultimate goal of curriculum is to develop learners willing to ______________________.
What is participate in a democratic society?
While industrial nations’ postsecondary education graduate rates vary, Ireland, Korea, and Canada provide postsecondary education to over ___________ percent of their young adults.
What is 50%?
Promising approaches to assisting low-achieving students must overcome __________.
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What is teachers' low expectations for low achievers?
The role of textbooks in curriculum is most accurate.
What is textbooks influence the nature and sequence of a curriculum?
The launching of Sputnik rocked the foundations of the United States government, citizenry, and educational system during which period of American history?
What is Cold War?
The new core curriculum may create problems for ___________________.
What is students with low school ability?
A team of U.S. child-care specialists and civic leaders visited France and studied its early childhood programs and __________ was the major conclusion of their study.
What is the French system provides a model for preschool child-care that is worth considering for replication in the US?
As a whole, strategies for bringing about “effective classrooms” call for _________.
What is the thoughtful application of research-based approaches to classroom teaching and instruction?
By the 1980s, the attention of national policy reports focused on the needs of which group of students who have tended to be ignored in national priorities for education?
What is average?