Describe the history of the American education system.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Formal versus informal education
2. In early America boys and girls leaned at home or on the farm; schooling not required
3. Schooling primarily for wealthy boys
4. After Revolutionary War textbooks created to standardized spelling and pronunciation, unify
5. Mid 1800s calls for free and compulsory education
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A family is the official term used to designate a residential and economic unit; it refers to the manner in which women, men, and children actually come together in domestic units
a. true b. false
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The Asian population is the least educated ethnic population in the United States. 2. The model minority stereotype for Asian Americans has increased their political influence in the United States. 3. Asian Americans are portrayed as the "model minority" in U.S. society because they have not mounted highly 4. Most U.S. immigration legislation regarding Asians was designed to exclude Asian immigrants from competing 5. The 1917 Immigration Act was enacted in order to stop Japanese immigration as well as immigration from other Asian countries to the United States.
James feels comfortable talking to his wife Harriet about his problems. She feels the same way about sharing her problems with him. Their behavior is consistent with Biddle's definition of:
a. modeling. b. pluralism. c. emotionality. d. openness.
According to Thomas Attig, coming to terms with our finiteness and mortality can be understood as a
A. psychodynamic process. B. mechanism of change. C. defensive mechanism. D. grieving process.