Values & Beliefs I
This is something that Americans simply accepted at first, and later, they saw the strength in it in U.S. culture.
What is diversity?
This is the phrase that the authors use to describe the upward path from elementary school to high school to college.
What is the "educational ladder"?
In American education, this type of academic skill is considered more important than simply memorizing facts.
What is critical thinking?
This is a set of rules which a country is governed by.
What is a constitution?
This Native American craft was believed to protect sleeping babies.
What is a dreamcatcher?
This situation involves people of many different cultural backgrounds living together peacefully.
What is cultural pluralism?
This is a word for higher education in general, a 2- or 4-year institution, or a division within a university.
What is college?
These two subjects are covered in the Common Core educational standards.
What are Language Arts and Math?
This means one person, considered separately from a group.
What is an individual?
This phrase refers to the transition of a person from poverty to wealth as an example of "the American dream."
What is "rags to riches"?
These are the three "prices" that are paid for the benefits of individual freedom, equal opportunity, and material wealth.
What are self-reliance, competition, and hard work.
Approximately 10% of students in the U.S. attend these.
What are private schools?
This type of extracurricular school activity is valued for teaching students the political process and social skills.
What is student government?
This assistance funding is paid by the U.S. government to people who are poor, unemployed, or otherwise in need of help.
What is welfare?
This phrase refers to the advantages and privileges from birth that a child of very rich parents has.
What is "born with a silver spoon in his/her mouth"?
Doing this too much is what Americans feel will cause them to lose their individual freedom.
What is relying on the government or their parents for support.
These are the organizations that often run private schools and require uniforms.
What are churches?
This negative effect of the No Child Left Behind program involved teachers focusing too much on high scores and not enough on critical thinking and other important academic skills.
What is "teaching to the test."
This verb means to gather gradually more and more of something.
What is accumulate?
This French aristocrat studied the culture of the U.S. in the 1800s.
Who was Alexis de Tocqueville?
This value is instilled in young people in the U.S. from childhood and is seen most in sports.
What is competitiveness?
University tuitions are so expensive that most students receive this form of monetary assistance.
What is financial aid?
This famous court case in 1954 ended racial segregation in U.S. schools.
What was "Brown vs. the Board of Education"?
This verb means to get rid of something completely.
What is eliminate? (or...What is abolish?)
The earliest European settlers in America wanted freedom these three powerful groups.
What are governments, churches, and the nobility?