Your text suggests that students who are "held back" in school due to poor grades on standardized tests:
a. are disproportionately from disadvantaged backgrounds.
b. often experience an increase in their overall their long-term academic performance.
c. typically experience an increase in their chances of completing high school.
d. benefit in the long run from being able to repeat a grade.
a
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Umbrella labels:
a. do harm by lumping diverse people under a single name. b. are useful in helping to establish policies to help a variety of people. c. are used to help clarify social conditions. d. are usually created by alarmist writers.
Which theoretical perspective on divorce views people who get divorced as flawed or dysfunctional?
(a) temporal (b) evolutionary (c) selection (d) sociocultural
Which perspective would point to those in positions of power as those who would stand to benefit from strict drug laws?
A. structural functionalism B. conflict theory C. symbolic interactionism D. control theory