Which of the following was a principal aim of the No Child Left Behind Act?
a. Make schools accountable for the success or failure of their students.
b. Ensure the gaps that plague education in the United States.
c. Create a common core of standard before the states did.
d. Increase teachers' flexibility to teach however they think best.
Answer: a. Make schools accountable for the success or failure of their students.
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a. Participant-run romances b. Arranged marriages c. Parent-run courtships d. Plural marriages
Stimuli should be grounded in the ______ that your experiment is testing.
a. technology b. treatment c. theory d. variables
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b. A replication study is only useful if the first study was conducted incorrectly. c. If the original researcher replicates the study, it is more useful than other researchers replicating the original study. d. A replication is usually less expensive because most of the work has previously been done.
Which theory posits that schools train students to be submissive, docile, punctual, and hardworking--all the traits that make for "good" workers in the capitalist system?
A. conflict/critical theory B. structural-functionalism C. symbolic interactionism D. exchange theory