The funding of public schools through local property taxes can be considered discriminatory because
a. poor children and rich children in the same district benefit equally from tax money.
b. senior citizens whose children are grown must still pay taxes that support the local schools.
c. rich school districts can spend more than poor ones on each student.
d. rich "donor" school districts have to subsidize poor "taker" school districts.
Answer: c. rich school districts can spend more than poor ones on each student.
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a. They are held to a higher-standard than other minorities. b. They are continually channeled into similar careers, such as scientists and engineers. c. They are seen as different when compared to "average" Americans. d. All of the above
Power that people consider rightly exercised over them is known as
a. coercion. b. authority. c. imposed control. d. illegitimate power.
One way to increase the power of a planned study by altering the amount of variance within each of the two distributions is to
A) use the variance of the experimental group instead of the variance from the comparison group. B) plan to include all scores in the sample, even extreme scores. C) use more precise measures. D) reduce the number of items on any questionnaires employed.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Fascists often see the nation-state as an organic whole. 2.Fascism strives for totality of power in which all sectors of society—education, labor, art, science—are incorporated into the state and serve the purposes of the state. 3.Genocide is the mass murder of people based on their racial, national, or ethnic origins.