Major reform initiatives in the 1990s directed at improving student learning have focused on
a. The need to identify what students should know and be able to do at different stages in their education.
b. Ways of assessing their achievements and progress.
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
c
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__________ provides an opportunity for bridging the inherent conflict between different branches of government, such as the president and Congress.
A. Democratic government B. Federalist government C. Partisan government D. Unified government
According to the Supreme Court's decisions in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), in which of the following areas could Congress prohibit discrimination against African Americans?
a. theaters b. hotels c. post offices d. private homes
One way of testing the hypothesis that high welfare state spending
caused slow economic growth in European countries in the 1970s would be to: a. use average total welfare spending in each country in the 1970s as the independent variable and average GDP growth rates as the dependent variable. b. use average GDP growth rates in the 1970s as the independent variable and average welfare spending as a percentage of GDP as the dependent variable. c. use average GDP growth rates in the 1970s as the independent variable and total welfare spending in each country as the dependent variable. d. use average welfare spending in the 1970s as a percentage of GDP as the independent variable and average GDP growth rates as the dependent variable.
Which of the following could be considered a cost of an international alliance?
A)Alliances automatically lead to attempts at world hegemony, which destabilizes international relations. B)Alliances create well-defined protocols that rationalize and strengthen diplomacy, making states outside those alliances suspicious. C)Alliances tend to spur counteralliances, which increases international tension and leads to more conflict. D)Alliances complicate the ability of states to share information with one another, which increases the chances of misperception and conflict.