Describe the sociocultural factors in the construction of education.
What will be an ideal response?
An important U.S. value is equal opportunity to quality education, and yet, in reality, the inequalities in our educational institutions are important drivers of growing social and economic inequalities. In 2014, the Texas State Board of Education accused history textbooks and the accompanying online resources of being "anti-American" because they included "negative aspects" of U.S. history-aspects such as treatment of Native Americans and Japanese internment camps. They specifically criticized textbooks that did not pay enough attention to the achievements of President Ronald Reagan, gave too little credit to the importance of Moses on the thinking of U.S. founders, were not sufficiently laudatory of the free market economic system, and were too sympathetic to Islam. Texas is such a large state that textbooks written for it will influence content in textbooks used across the country. Education is a powerful tool to reinforce hegemony in a culture.
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a. maintain current behavior. b. avoid slips into old behavior. c. prevent current abnormal behavior. d. resolve reason for consultation.
Client objectives on a treatment plan should be all of the following EXCEPT
a) Measureable b) General c) Attainable d) Time-limited
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a. consent b. monitoring c. discontinuation d. analysis
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a. are one of the most commonly used assessment strategies b. should only be focused on gathering client information c. can be conducted effectively with very little training or practice d. are generally conducted with adult clients, but not with children