Recent graduation and school completion data for learners with disabilities in the US indicate that:
A. Learners with intellectual disabilities have the highest rates of completion.
B. Completion rates for all students with disabilities are comparable to rates for all learners.
C. Poverty is no longer a risk factor for dropping out of school before graduation
D. African American, Hispanic, and Native American students are still more likely to drop out before completion.
D
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a. True b. False
Ellen is majoring in marketing and has a general idea for her career target. She has held several part-time jobs since graduating from high school and in this class she has learned that employers look for employees who have good transferable workplace competencies (basic skills and attitudes that are important for all types of work). She knows that she needs to identify her strongest
workplace competencies in order to convey them to prospective employers. (Hopefully, Ellen also knows that she should strengthen the areas she is weak in.) What set of foundational skills and personal qualities (transferable workplace competencies) would you recommend that Ellen look at so she can begin to identify her strengths?
To succeed in adult society, growing children need to acquire some degree of emotion regulation when they encounter disappointing or frustrating circumstances. Three of the following teaching strategies should help promote such regulation. Which one is not a recommended strategy?
A) Encourage students to watch aggressive sports (e.g., boxing, American football) as an outlet for any aggressive tendencies their frustrations may elicit. B) Encourage students to look for one or more unanticipated benefits of their failures. C) Teach students strategies that can help them be more successful on future occasions. D) Brainstorm with students about ways they might minimize or compensate for the negative repercussions of their failures.