Describe the instructional emphasis of a teacher using the essentialist curriculum
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: The teacher would emphasize concepts and principles of the "three R's" and the six major disciplines and essential skills. There would be little opportunity for play or fun activities. There would be a heavy focus on academic standards, along with a rigorous grading system.
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Several years after NCLB was enacted, researchers found that states had different definitions of what it meant for students to be considered proficient in a particular subject. Which of the following statements best reflects what that finding meant to researchers?
a. It was considered a beneficial development because NCLB was intended to foster diversity in how states define proficiency. b. It was considered a beneficial development because states with lower standards would raise them to the level of those states that reported the highest test scores. c. It was considered a detrimental development because it revealed that states were able to manipulate one of the major features of NCLB in order to increase its chances of meeting the law's demands. d. It was considered to be neither a beneficial nor a detrimental development as accountability is more important than uniformity across states.
According to the National Early Literacy Panel's (2008) report, the greatest impact of shared reading is on children's:
A. oral language development. B. print knowledge. C. knowledge of phonics (i.e., letter-sound relationships) D. a and b
Decide whether the following pairs of variables would most likely be positively or negatively correlated. number of hours of sleep deprivation; manual dexterity score
What will be an ideal response?
Paralegals need to realize which of the following:
A. Other people or resources may be better at a task than the paralegal B. New attorneys may need help learning to delegate work to paralegals C. Both of these D. None of these