In 1996, the Oakland, California school board proposed that schools in the district should
A hire dialect coaches to reduce the features of African-American Vernacular English used by students.
B ban the use of African-American Vernacular English in the classroom.
C launch a series of studies to examine the ways African-American Vernacular English was used at school.
D teach African-American Vernacular English to students who did not speak it.
E use African-American Vernacular English in the classroom to support the development of Standard English.
E
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A. Native Americans want to display the remains and artifacts in private rather than public museums. B. Reburial of the remains and artifacts is antithetical to the mission of museums, which view them as nonliving entities to be studied. C. Museums are not receiving adequate government funding to preserve the remains and artifacts. D. Native Americans do not value archaeological research and have been inadvertently destroying important sites through new construction on reservations.
The relative prestige of an occupation is directly correlated with the amount of income earned by that occupational group
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Neoliberalism is a new form of the old economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). To Smith, economic liberalism encouraged free enterprise and competition, with the goal of generating profits. However, this meaning of liberal
A. is a Protestant ideology. B. is a more accurate use of the term than the one Americans typically hear in current talk radio. C. varies depending on whether it refers to politics in a Western or non-Western context. D. has no implications for the relationship between economics and the state. E. is different from the one typically used in current U.S. politics, in which liberal is the opposite of conservative.
Which of the following statements about individual artists in non-Western societies is true?
A. They are just copying Western art forms. B. They are nonexistent. C. They tend to be iconoclastic and antisocial. D. They are all trained in formal, state-controlled schools for the arts. E. They tend to get more feedback during the artistic process than in Western societies.