What are the three principal settings of public schools? Briefly describe what school is like in each setting
What will be an ideal response?
Rural—fewer than 2,500 people; advantages include smaller schools and community ownership; challenges include inadequate tax base for funding, difficulty hiring qualified teachers, and geographic isolation
Suburban—neighborhoods and small to medium towns located on the fringes of large cities; advantages include families with higher socioeconomic status and relative ease of hiring qualified teachers; disadvantages include satisfying various factions in the community and making continuous improvements
Urban—cities that have large downtowns and dense populations; advantages include the possibility of making large gains in student learning; disadvantages include low socioeconomic status of many families; problems associated with low expectations, and low levels of parental/family education.
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a. visually b. musically c. kinesthetically d. all of the above
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(a) move to students, (b) call students to her, (c) have students form a line, (d) ask students to wait until helped.
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a. Action research is intricate. b. Action research is positivist. c. Action research is persuasive. d. Action research is objective.
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a. the control group and the experimental group can never be equated. b. it is not economical. c. they may not be representative of the total population. d. none of the above.