Discuss the debate surrounding education for Puerto Ricans in the early 20th century
What will be an ideal response?
The federal policy was to Americanize Puerto Ricans through education with the instructional language in schools being English. The students were expected to also learn American ways in school. Puerto Rican teachers wanted to focus education on their native language and culture and defend Spanish as their language of instruction. In 1934, the Padin Reform limited English instruction to high schools.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
John has just failed a test. From the perspective of attribution theory, is John likely to work harder to pass his next test?
a. Definitely not; he will feel as if he is not capable of doing better and so won't try. b. Absolutely yes; failing one test causes a negative emotional reaction that will motivate him to study. c. Yes, provided that his low test score is accompanied by information about strengths and weaknesses about his performance. d. Yes, provided that he believes his test performance is the result of something he didn't do but could do next time.
The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCREST) de-scribe culturally-responsive pedagogy as encompassing three dimensions:
A institutional, personal, and instructional B. personal, thankful, and smart C. institutional, characteristic, and simple D. personal, simplistic, and accurate