The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds dropout-reduction programs that emphasize which strategy?
A. peer mentoring and tutoring
B. placing students with community mentors at least five hours each week
C. keeping at-risk students with the same teachers through their high school years
D. Saturday school to help students catch up with their peers academically
Answer: C
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a. antisocial personality disorder b. a Type A personality c. a Type B personality d. dependent personality disorder
Hinduism, the religion of India for most of its history, concentrates on an individual's cycle of birth and rebirth, or ____
a. polygamy c. celibacy b. karma d. asceticism
When a group of test items all share something in common that accounts for the high correlations among them, we can say they all share a common
a. cause. b. theory. c. nomological network. d. factor.
Latasha and Brett are having their first child and are concerned that their child may have Down syndrome because Latasha is older than 40. Which of the following would health professionals be most likely to use to help Latasha and Brett through this process?
A. PET scan B. genetic counseling C. ultrasound D. a chorionic villus sampling