What explanations have been offered to account for the disproportionately high rate of violence among middle school boys?
What will be an ideal response?
Middle school boys who are not good students, and who are too young to legally drop out of school, may feel resentful about having been told they are inadequate and feel trapped in a humiliating environment.
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It is a sign of immaturity and lack of professional development to involve a supervisor or other third party in a conference when there are difficulties between parents and teachers
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Utah legislature’s delegation of charter schools prerogative to the state board of education is unconstitutional
Indicate whether the statement is true(T) or false(F).
Betty Hart and Tom Risley found in their ground-breaking 2003 research that:
a. children from low-income backgrounds had vocabularies that mirrored those of their parents. b. books in the home have little relationship to children's language skills. c. by the age of 3, children from low-income backgrounds had 100 fewer words in their vocabulary when compared to their more affluent peers. d. parent education had little to do with child achievement.
Which of the following is not a true statement about how textbooks are used today?
A) Even with science curriculum reform, which started in the 1960's, today's classrooms still rely on a single textbook as the basis for science instruction. B) Gender bias can be found in textbooks published in the twenty-first century. C) Science vocabulary has much less emphasis; the emphasis is on concept development. D) States like Texas, California, and Florida, with statewide adoption of textbooks tremendously influence the content most publishers put into their textbook. E) Resequencing of the chapters within the textbook occurs so that ideas relate in ways that make more sense to the learner.