Middle Brook High School, discussed by Hallinan in "The Culture of the School," emphasizes academic excellence, focusing on educational attainment and academic prestige

It encourages students to apply to at least one highly competitive college, in what is called

a. an emphasis on winning.
b. the valedictorian effect.
c. an honors emphasis.
d. a reach strategy.


D

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a. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s b. Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty programs in the 1960s c. Bill Clinton's Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act in the 1990s d. Barack Obama's Tax Relief Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act in the 2010s

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A unimodal frequency distribution has two equal modes

a. True b. False

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A male who lives as a woman, or a female who lives as a man but does not alter the genitalia, is referred to as a(n): a. hermaphrodite

b. transsexual. c. cross-dresser. d. intersexual.

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Discuss the reasons many ethnoracial minorities are suspicious of the U.S. health care system.

What will be an ideal response?

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