Considering the textbook's definitions of threat and challenge, identify the situation below that is most likely to pose a threat rather than a challenge?
a. You think you can probably make the basketball team, but only if you practice every day at home.
b. You're asked to climb up a twenty-foot rope hanging from the ceiling. You've climbed ten feet before, but you've never climbed twenty feet.
c. You've invited a professor to dinner and are trying a recipe you've never tried before.
d. You are required to take a college course in nuclear physics, even though you failed basic physics in high school.
d
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. By highlighting a need for proper classroom supplies to the PTA, a teacher would be implementing a deficit ideology. 2. No Child Left Behind replaced the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 3. The Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 was unprecedented because it required states to report student data to the federal government. 4. Between 2009 and 2015, substantial progress was made in closing the achievement gap between white students and non-Asian students of color. 5. Cultural capital refers to the advantages possessed by individuals from the culture’s dominant social groups. 6. Horace Mann (and others) have noted that education creates more social inequality than it works to address.
The Montessori approach
a. includes educational strategies and curricula for primary-age children. b. is found in private education, but has not been adopted by any public school programs. c. includes educational strategies and curricula for children from birth to high school. d. includes educational strategies and curricula for only preschool programs.
Negative reactions of adults to the news of a new pregnancy may be attributed to:
A. ambivalent feelings about becoming a parent B. difficulties with a marriage relationship C. simply not wanting to be pregnant D. all of the above are correct
Some school conditions, often called school-based ________ factors, contribute to violence and aggression. Things such as poor design of school space, overcrowding, lack of caring, insensitivity toward multicultural factors, student alienation, rejection of at-risk students by teachers and peers, anger and resentment at school routines and demands for conformity can lead to problems
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