What are three specific characteristics of the Finnish school system that have defined its success? What is the potential for applying lessons learned through the Finnish educational system to systems in other countries?
What will be an ideal response?
but could include that the teachers are well trained and unionized, and the profession draws people committed to their profession because it maintains a high level of prestige. Second, Finland has not done any of the privatization of education through vouchers, etc. Third, Finnish schools are remarkably similar with less variation in achievement across the educational system than in other countries. However, Finland is a rich, small country with a homogeneous population, and many think this system is hard to translate to a large diverse population.
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a. The AMA b. Physician professional societies c. Gate-keeping d. Recent federal court rulings e. all of the above
Sociologists interested in two status groups such as mother-daughter or patient-physician are studying social structures at the __________ level
a. micro b. meso c. macro d. global
Among women respondents, which group was the most likely to report having a great deal of confidence in educational institutions?
Figure 4.2 examines the relationship between respondents’ racial-ethnic group and their confidence in education, controlling for respondents’ gender. RACEHISP is a nominal-level variable that indicates respondents’ self-identification as non-Hispanic white, Black or African American, non-Black Hispanic, or another racial/ethnic minority group. CONEDUC is the variable corresponding to the question, ”I am going to name some institutions in this country. As far as the people running these institutions are concerned, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence, or hardly any confidence at all in them? … Education.”
The top portion of the figure shows the variables used to construct the analysis and indicates that SEX was used as a control variable and YEAR was used as a filter.
Figure 4.2
a. White women
b. Black women
c. Non-Black Hispanic women
d. Other women
Consider the current definition of unemployment used in the United States. Who would be categorized as unemployed under that definition?
A. Hanna, who does not have a job but is actively searching B. Erich, who is looking for a job and relying on income from sporadic temporary jobs until he finds full-time work C. Marchelle, who is unable to work because of a disability D. Isiah, a full-time student who takes occasional short-term jobs when he wants extra money