What are "charter schools?" What are some types of charter schools?

What will be an ideal response?


publicly funded elementary or secondary schools which a charter that specifies goals for student achievement. They are privately administered and exempt from certain laws regarding education. They vary from "back-to-basics" to technology-rich science and math schools to academies modeled on elite private schools.

Sociology

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Researchers conducting surveys want their samples to be a. simple. b. unrelated

c. representative. d. time-series

Sociology

?The concept of an epigenetic effect suggests that genes

a. ?outweigh the potential impact of socialization. b. ?interact with the environment to cause or avoid causing an illness. c. ?mutate at different rates in different populations. d. ?Mutate in different ways in different populations. e. ?Can be modified in laboratories to prevent disease.

Sociology

Robert Merton explained that what is functional for one category of a society’s population:

a. is always functional for everyone.
b. may not be functional for people in another category.
c. is unlikely to change over time.
d. can never be functional in the future.

Sociology

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The greatest volume of waste in the United States is released into the air. 2. Of all forest types, temperate forests are most at risk for deforestation and degradation. 3. The Stockholm Convention is the most important international agreement pertaining to the production, use, and control of POP chemicals in the environment. 4. Consumers in developed countries will generally purchase “green” products even if they do not perform as well as those they aim to replace. 5. In Europe as well as the United States, packaging is the main source of consumer plastics.

Sociology