Which of these is not a problem facing the education system in Texas?
a. The number of economically disadvantaged students, which continues to grow within every ethnic group, has risen to 60 percent of all students.
b. Texas ranks dead last among the states, with about 80 percent of its population holding high school degrees, compared to 85 percent nationally.
c. In Texas, the public school system continues to grow, averaging 1.9 percent growth each year, a rate nearly four times the growth of public schools nationwide.
d. More than 800,000 Texas students have limited proficiency in the English language.
e. Texas needs a large numbers of teachers, and their high salaries and benefits drain the funding for education.
e
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a. originalist b. flexible c. institutional d. attitudinal
Which of the following best describes scholars who argue that the Tenth Amendment—which provides that the powers not taken by the national government belong to the states—is little more than a truism?
a. They are originalists. b. They point to the powerful combination of the supremacy clause and the elastic clause to support their argument. c. They rely on the Declaration of Independence to maintain their argument. d. They fundamentally misconstrue state constitutions and their reliance on the Tenth Amendment.
_____ is a useful visual for displaying a bivariate frequency distribution and is presented in rows and columns.
a. A graph b. Frequency table c. A diagram d. A contingency table
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A) Charles Russel and Keith Wallace B) Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace C) Charles Darwin and Arthur Keith D) Alfred Russel Wallace and Arthur Keith